Students gather for photos near Nichol Hall in preparation for a new recruitment brochure.
The Department of Environmental and Ocupational Health was recently named as a partner in the United States Peace Corps Internationalist Program. This designation facilitates student applications into the Peace Corps while providing scholarship support for MPH candidates. 
Dr. Samuel Soret and Mr. Seth Wiafe are providing leadership for the new Geoinformatics Unit that will become the nucleus for health informatics and geographic information systems training, education and research. Certificate and degree programs will be available beginning this fall.
Several members of the epidemiology and biostatistics faculty are among the scientific investigators of the new Adventist Health Study-2. This multi-million dollar grant from the National Cancer Institute is the third phase of research regarding the lifestyle of Seventh-day Adventists, and how lifestyle characteristics are related to healthful longevity or chronic disease, especially cancer. Principal Investigator Dr. Synnove Knutsen and faculty from several other departments in the School received a $964,000 grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency to assess the long-term effects of particulate and gaseous air pollutants on the risk of cardiovascular disease among participants of the Adventist Health and Smog Study. It is anticipated that these two epidemiological cohort studies will make a major contribution to the scientific literature on chronic disease etiology.
Past department chair Dr. Lynna Belin established a scholarship fund for health administration students. The 2003 phone-a-thon will also benefit this fund. HADM alumni wishing to contribute can push the fund past the $10,000 mark, the minimum needed to create a permanent scholarship endowment. Ann Lin ('98) and Dr. S. Eric Anderson are now translating textbooks on strategic planning and operations management to be published in the Mandarin language for health administration students in Taiwan. Proceeds from the sale of these books will be applied to the Ann C. Lee Health Administration Scholarship Endowment.
New faculty members include Dr. Edward K. Fujimoto, coordinator of the DrPH preventive care program, Brenda Rae, coordinator of the BSPH in wellness management, and Dr. Gary Hopkins, assistant professor of health promotion and education. Dr. Linda Ferry of the SPH clinical faculty received a grant to develop an online curriculum for a new certificate program on tobacco control. She also received an NIH grant to offer a global tobacco control certificate program in Cambodia in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). This program will train individuals and address research needs in the context of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Dr. Susanne Montgomery has been selected to serve as director for the Center for Health Research.
The Department of Global Health is now offering a certificate in reproductive health. The program familiarizes participants with issues associated with planning, implementing, and evaluating reproductive health programs for both men and women. The certificate may be obtained within the MPH or the DrPH degree through selection of guided electives. The certificate may also be obtained independently of these degrees. Faculty in the department are serving as co-investigators on the Global Tobacco Control certificate program.
Department chairman Dr. Joan Sabaté and doctoral student Gina Siapco were presenters at the 5th International Conference on Dietary Assessment Methods in Chaing Rai, Thailand, earlier this year. The clinical trial "Walnut Supplementation on Body Weight and Diet Patterns" was completed at the end of 2002. The year-long study included 90 subjects and provided data for the dissertations of two doctoral students.
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