The faculty share a focus on applying their skills and knowledge to current public health and clinical problems. They are involved in numerous activities on the local and national level. This site will provide with you sample of some of their most recent activities.

Harris Berman, MD, Vice Dean, Tufts School of Medicine, was a keynote speaker at Christian Medical College’s Winter Symposium in Vellore, India in January 2009, where he spoke on “Lessons from America on How Not to Design a Health Insurance System”.

Doug Brugge, PhD, Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine (PH&CM), authored a paper entitled, “Developing Methods to Compare Low-Education Community-Based and University-Based Survey Teams” in Health Promotion Practice. The research paper resulted from his community-collaborative research class two years ago, but was printed this year. Most of his co-authors are graduates of the MD/MPH or the MPH program

Steven Cohen, DrPH, MPH, Assistant Professor of PH&CM, published an article entitled “The SEEDs of Two Grastrointestinal Diseases: Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Demographic Factors Related to Cryptosporidiosis and Giardiasis in Massachusetts” in the October 2008 issue of Environmental Research. 

Susan Gallagher, MPH, Assistant Professor of PH&CM, authored an article entitled “Injury Research Advocacy – A High Priority” that appeared in Injury Prevention in August 2008.  She was also appointed to the Advisory Board of the European Center for Injury Prevention based at the University of Navarra Medical School in Spain.

Jeffrey K. Griffiths, MD, MPH&TM, Associate Professor of PH&CM, has been appointed to the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Science Advisory Board ‘Report of the Environment’ Committee, which will provide independent advice to the EPA regarding its effort to assess US environmental status. He also contributed to the recently published “San Francisco Water Quality Protection Plan” and its Strategic Planning for San Francisco’s Water Quality Future through the year 2030.

Lisa Neal Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of PH&CM, published the cover story in the Winter 2009 Tufts Medicine, “Dr. Google: Your Patients, the Internet, and You”. In addition, her paper “The Doctor as the Second Opinion and the Internet as the First” was accepted for presentation at the CHI 2009 Conference on Computer-Human Interaction in Boston in April.

Mark Haas, MBA, Clinical Instructor of PH&CM, was profiled in the February 2009 issue of Health Leaders magazine in a story entitled, “Bringing it Back Home”. The story focused on the success Professor Haas has had at Massachusetts General Hospital with re-insourcing health information management functions.

Ron Hollander, MS, Adjunct Lecturer for PH&CM, gave a presentation and facilitated a panel at the meeting of the National Health Leadership Council in Los Angeles. The meeting, which took place in February, was on “Building Value-Based Purchasing in National Health Reform”. Professor Hollander also gave a presentation on “The Massachusetts Experience: Implications for National Reform and the Business Community Perspective”. The NHLC is a multi-stakeholder council made up of business coalitions, providers, health plans, health suppliers, government agency leaders, and others. Its purpose is to facilitate candid exchange among these players on issues of mutual concern and importance.

Amy Lischko, Dsc, MSPH, Assistant Professor of PH&CM, was awarded a Commonwealth Fund grant in November 2008 to evaluate the Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector, which is an integral part of the state’s comprehensive health insurance reform law. Amy also joined the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners board of directors in January 2009.

Paula M. Minihan, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of PH&CM, was recently an invited participant at conferences in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD designed to bring together policymakers from the generally disparate worlds of disability policy and chemical policy reform. The meetings, sponsored by The John Merck Fund, were organized by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health.

Aviva Must, PhD, Professor of PH&CM and Dean of Public Health and Professional Degree Programs, is the 2009 recipient of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Alumni Association’s Leadership Award.

Beth Rosenberg, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor of PH&CM, presented “Corporate Social Responsibility: What is it good for?” at American Public Health Association Conference in October 2008 was based on her experiences with garment factories in Vietnam and China.

Anthony L. Schlaff, MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of PH&CM, has been elected to the Board of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) and will serve as co-chair for APTR’s national annual meeting in spring 2010. He also has been appointed to the Town of Brookline Advisory’s Council of Public Health.