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, Dean of Public Health and Professional Degree Programs, spent 4 weeks visiting programs in China and India this year, looking to expand the options for public health training and service for Tufts’ students interested in Global Health. The Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau expressed interest in developing a relationship with Tufts, which could provide exciting opportunities for research and service for our students. This will require further spadework as it is still in the early stages of discussions. In India, in addition to the existing programs at Father Muller Medical College in Mangalore and Christian Medical College in Vellore, we are exploring an affiliation with the Niramaya Health Foundation in Mumbai. This program, introduced by Pritesh Gandhi, MD/MPH’10, provides health care and preventive health services to the residents of an urban slum in Mumbai. Anthony Schlaff, MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine (PH&FM) and MPH Program Director, joined Dr. Berman on this visit and will be working with Pritesh and others to develop a pilot program for the summer of 2008.
Doug Brugge, PhD, Associate Professor of PH&FM, recently co-authored with community organizer L. Lowe a chapter entitled, “Grassroots Organizing in Boston Chinatown: A comparison with CDC-style Organizing,” in the book Acting Civically: From Urban Neighborhoods to Higher Education. The publisher is University Press of New England and Editor Ostrander and Portney.
Susan Gallagher, MPH, Assistant Professor of PH&FM, co-authored an article entitled “Strategies to Improve External Cause-of-Injury Coding in State-based Hospital Discharge and Emergency Department Data Systems”, which is due to come out in a very important issue of MMWR Recommendations and Reports at then end of March 2008.
Congratulations to Jeffrey K. Griffiths, MD, MPH&TM, Associate Professor of PH&FM, on his joint appointments at the Tufts’ Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition and Science and Policy and School of Engineering and on being named an American Society of Microbiology International Professor for Latin America. Dr. Griffiths will be running a teaching workshop in Quito, Ecuador this spring and the topic will be on the detection and diagnosis of several important waterborne disease parasites of public health importance. In addition to serving on the Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Griffiths will be contributing as a public health expert on new regulations regarding the 'total coliform rule' (a measure of fecal pollution of water) being proposed by the EPA.
Paul Hattis, MD, JD, MPH, Assistant Professor of PH&FM, co-authored a report, “Health Professions Accreditation and Diversity: A Review of Current Standards and Processes,” which was recently published by the Kellogg Foundation.
Charles Levenstein, Ph.D., M.S.O.H., Adjunct Professor of PH&FM, was re-elected to the board of Massachusetts Public Health Association and is currently supervising the peer review panels concerned with internal research projects for NIOSH for the second year. In addition to organizing a Western Massachusetts conference on indoor air quality in public schools in March and continuing to serve as co-chair of the Massachusetts Teachers Association Environmental Health and Safety Committee, Dr. Levenstein recently submitted to Baywood Publications a newly edited book on studies of work environment for the book series on Work, Health and Environment.
Barry Levy, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor of PH&FM, presented lectures on "The Health Consequences of the Iraq War" at the War and Health Conference at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in February, and on "The Impact of War and Terrorism on Emerging Infectious Diseases" at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta in March. Dr. Levy and Victor Sidel, M.D., of Montefiore Medical Center in New York, have endowed a new award of the American Public Health Association, which will be named the Sidel-Levy Award for Peace in their honor, to be given annually to an APHA member in recognition of outstanding contributions in helping to prevent war and promoting international peace.
Amy Lischko, MPH, Assistant Professor of PH&FM, has been assisting states in developing strategies for increasing access to health insurance. She has been working with the National Governor’s Association in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and providing consulting services to Rhode Island and West Virginia on the establishment of a Connector-like structure as was established here in Massachusetts. She will be participating in a luncheon panel at the National Medical Association’s Ninth National Colloquium on African American Health in March.
Congratulations to J. David Naparstek, ScM, Adjunct Assistant Professor of PH&FM, on his appointment by Governor Deval Patrick to the newly-created Massage Therapy Board. Professor Naparstek represents public health officials on the board. This board is charged with developing new statewide regulations governing the practice of massage, standards for massage establishments and for massage therapy education. Prior to the formation of this board, massage regulations were developed by individual local health departments, and varied from community to community. The new board creates uniform statewide regulations.
Lisa Neal, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of PH&FM, gave a talk for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council in March 2008, entitled "Online Consumer Health: Coupling User- and Expert-Generated Health Advice."
Congratulations to Carole Palmer, EdD, PhD, Professor of Dental Medicine, on her appointment by the Governor of New Hampshire to the Board of Licensed Dietitians.
Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA, Professor of PH&FM, gave presentation on AuthorAID at the AAAS (American Association for the Advance of Science) meeting in Boston in February 2008. Along with Phyllis Freeman, Dr. Robbins has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Public Health Policy since 2003 and the two developed the AuthorAID concept: to mentor young scientists, providing web-based scientific mentoring and developmental editing assistance from volunteers–experienced researchers and editors.
Beth Rosenberg , ScD, MPH , Assistant Professor of PH&FM, was in Vietnam in January 2008 on an International Labour Organization/International Finance Corporation grant written by Dr. Drusilla Brown, Associate Professor of Economics, to investigate working conditions in garment factories with colleagues, Dr. Brown, Dr. Ann Rappaport, Lecturer, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and Yibing Li, Doctoral Candidate at the Tufts School of Arts and Sciences. Working conditions are better in factories where Corporate Codes of Conduct are practiced, but the government needs to take a bigger role in enforcing labor laws in the thousand of factories that do not abide by corporate codes. As for Vietnam, the people are smart and hardworking, the food is fabulous, and the dollar is still worth something there.
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