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.

Sarah Anderson, MS, Instructor in Public Health and Family Medicine (PHFM) and doctoral student at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, earns her PhD this May with the defense of her thesis "Psychological Antecedents and Consequences of Adolescent Obesity." Her first publication from that work appeared in the March issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Edith Balbach, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Assistant Professor of PHFM, recently had an article accepted for publication along with Elizabeth Barbeau, ScD, MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor of PHFM, and A. Herzberg in Tobacco Control entitled "Political Coalitions and Working Women: How the Tobacco Industry Built a Relationship with the Coalition of Labor Union Women."

Doug Brugge, PhD, Associate Professor of PHFM, edited a book with two Navajo community activists, Timothy Benally and Esther Yazzie-Lewis entitled The Navajo People and Uranium: It was Like Herding Sheep into a Field of Stickers, that was accepted for publication by University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, due to be published in fall 2006. In addition, Dr. Brugge will be presenting a series of talks on the environment and health to the Chinatown Resident Association. Topics include environmental justice, asthma, crime, construction, and laws and regulations.

John Kulig, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and PHFM, has been elected to serve a two-year term (2007-2008) as Subspeciality Chair of the Adolescent Medicine Subboard of the American Board of Pediatrics.

Sheldon Krimsky, PhD, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, recently published an article entitled "From Asilomar to Industrial Biotechnology: Risks, Reductionism and Regulation" in Science as Culture.

M. Barton Laws, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of PHFM, conducted a workshop on March 1, 2006 for the Alliance for Community Health on Health Cancer Disparities at the Roslindale House in Roslindale, MA.

Barry Levy, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor of PHFM, gave a presentation at AFL-CIO Headquarters in February entitled "The Health Consequeces of the Ware in Iraq." Dr. Victor Sidel, Professor of Social Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical College, and Dr. Levy are beginning work on the second edition of War and Public Health, which will be published by Oxford University Press next year, and are giving lectures in Boston, Lowell, and Atlanta this spring on "Social Injustice and Public Health," the focus of their recently published book. Dr. Levy has been re-elected Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Metrowest Community Health Care Foundation, on which he has served since 1999.

Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, MPH, Adjunct Instructor in PHFM, was an invited speaker for Grand Rounds for the Brigham & Women's Hospital's Division of Cardiology and gave a talk entitled "Fish, n-3 Fatty Acids, and Cardiovascular Health - Current Evidence for Risk and Benefits."

Aviva Must, PhD, Associate Professor of PHFM, was an invited speaker at the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Childhood Obesity Group held in Vienna last fall. She spoke on "The Role of Physical Activity and Inactivity in Youth on the Development of Obesity." With David Tybor, MS, MPH, Instructor in PHFM, and doctoral student at the Tufts' Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, she authored a review article on this topic that was published in the International Journal of Obesity.

Anthony Schlaff, MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of PHFM, through a grant from the Boston Public Health Commission and in partnership with the Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service, is leading a series of city and state-wide discussions potentially leading to the replication of the Sophie Davis Medical School model in Massachusetts. Sophie Davis is a medical school based at the City College of New York that has for 30 years successfully recruited and trained inner city, low-income minority students in the medical profession. The activities for the next year include visiting Sophie Davis and convening a working group from the University of Massachusetts Boston, the community, the state's four medical schools, and the Boston Public Schools to develop a blue-print and action plan for creating a school.

Marva Serotkin, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor of PHFM, is presenting at the United Kingdom Multiple Sclerosis Society Conference, MS Care - International Perspectives, in Manchester England on April 21, 2006. Her session is titled, "Supporting Independence in Long-Term Care."