School of Public Health and Health Sciences

2006

Dr. Patty Freedson Appointed to President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Science Board

Dr. Patty Freedson has been appointed to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) Science Board.  Dr. Freedson was selected to serve on this board due to the significant contributions she has made to the research and science of physical activity, fitness and health.  Dec. 2006

The Research Council has completed its Fall 2006 round of recommendations for the combined Healy/Faculty Research Grants.

The School of Public Health and Health Sciences is proud to announce that four of its new faculty have been awarded 2006 Faculty Research Grants and congratulates them for excellent work during the transition to campus.  The faculty and their projects are: Aline Gubrium, Community Health Studies Culture and health Narratives by Women on Depo Provera; Hiromi Gunshin, Nutrition Molecular Approaches to Understanding Intestinal Heme Iron Absorption in Mice, Melissa Troester, Epidemiology TP53-Dependent Gene Expression Responses to Environmental Toxicants, and Lisa Wexler, Community Health Studies Using Photovoice to Investigate Cultural Resilience in the Lives of Inupiat Young People:  Is it Feasible and Suitable.  These projects were selected for their merit as well as their potential to provide data leading to future external research funding.  These four faculty also combine to bring considerable honor to the School as the largest single recipient of funding from the 2006 round of awards. 

 Torres named to Patrick’s transition team

M. Idalí Torres, associate professor of Community Health Education in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, has been appointed to Governor-elect Deval Patrick’s transition team.  She will serve on a health care working group.  Torres, who lives in Springfield, specializes in sexual health education, HIV prevention and Latino health issues. Before joining the faculty in 1992, she worked on community health projects focused on the Latino communities of Holyoke and Springfield. November 28, 2006.

 

SPHHS & SON Host talk by Gloria Feldt, former President of Planned Parenthood

Gloria Feldt, former President of Planned Parenthood, spoke on “Sexual and Reproductive Justice: A Public Health Imperative” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. The talk was sponsored by the SPHHS Center for Research and Education in Women’s Health, the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, the School of Nursing and the Women’s Studies Department. Feldt is the author of Behind every Choice Is a Story and The War on Choice. She has been called “the voice of experience” by People Magazine. Feldt discussed the imperative today for bold public health leadership to protect our advances and assure access to sexual and reproductive health services for all people.

 

John Cunningham named Interim Dean of SPHHS.


Assistant Professor Sarah F. Poissant of Communication Disorders has been awarded a 2 year, $156,792 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).