Gary L. Albrecht, PhD, professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, on "Emerging Issues in International Disability Studies."

Faith G. Davis, PhD, director and professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, on "Brain Tumor Epidemiology: Is the Stage Set for Progress?"

Sylvia E. Furner, PhD, senior associate dean and associate professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, on "Developing a Branch Campus MPH Program."

Arden Handler, DrPH, associate professor, Community Health Sciences Division, on a "Case Study of CDC State-based Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Programs" and "Evaluating an MPH Degree Program for Core Competencies."

Janet A. Holden, PhD, adjunct professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, on "Reaching the Latino Community with the Child Passenger Safety Message."

Susan L. Hughes, DSW, professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and co-director, Center for Research on Health and Aging, on the "Impact of Condition-specific Home Care Protocols."

Frederick J. Kviz, PhD, professor, Community Health Sciences Division, on the "DHHS Region V Behavioral Science Workforce Study."

Bridget J. McCarthy, PhD, assistant professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, on "Brain Tumor Epidemiology: Is the Stage Set for Progress?"

Babette J. Neuberger, JD, MPH, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, on "Public Health and Managed Care," "Developing a Branch Campus MPH Program," and "Evaluating an MPH Degree Program for Core Competencies."

Thomas R. Prohaska, PhD, director and professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and co-director, Center for Research on Health and Aging, on "Older Adult Preferences for Physician Inquiry."

Jesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, Community Health Sciences Division, on "Exploring Personal Change through Narratives: A Case of Women’s Experiences of Change through Community Health Work in Mexico" and "Frame Alignment: Explaining Community Participation and Recruitment Processes among Women Community Health Workers in Mexico."

Robert J. Rydman, PhD, associate professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, on "Rate and Risk of Excess Morbidity in Emergency Departments during the 1995 Heat Disaster," "Emergency Departments as Population-based Clinical Services Centers: A Paradigm Shift under Managed Care," "Public Health and Medicine: A Collaborative Research Agenda for Emergency Departments," "Pre-Study Use of a Modified Nominal Group Technique (NGT) for Increasing Adherence to Complex Research Protocols in Low-Income Minority Patients" and "Improving Subject Performance in Asthma Clinical Trials."

Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD, dean and professor, Community Health Sciences Division, on "Social and Cultural Determinants of Health Behaviors," "Impact on Breastfeeding of the Maternal Experience with a Jaundiced Infant," and "Deans’ Challenge: Expanding Horizons in Public Health Training."

David Slobodkin, MD, MPH, adjunct professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, on "Seroprevalence of Syphilis in an Inner-City Emergency Department" and "Improvement of a Permanent Policy of Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunization in an Urban Emergency Department in Managed Care: Impact and Changes in Delivery."

Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH, clinical professor, Community Health Sciences Division, on "Managed Care and the Public Health Workforce." Dr. Turnock also spoke on "Public Health Workforce Woes" at the National Public Health Leadership Society’s Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with APHA.

Wayne Wiebel, PhD, professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, and director, Community Outreach Intervention Projects, on "Why Do Insured IDUs Still Utilize Community-based Resources? A Formative Assessment of the UIC School of Public Health’s Community Outreach Intervention Projects."

Gary L. Albrecht, PhD, professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, was lead editor of The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, an international and interdisciplinary social science handbook on health and medicine, published by Sage Publications. The handbook included a chapter co-authored by Dr. Albrecht entitled "The Global Emergence of Disability." Dr. Albrecht also published an article on "Women and Disability" in the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, a chapter on "The Marketing of Rehabilitation Goods and Services" in Health, Illness and Healing: Society, Social Context and Self, and was first author of an article on "The Disability Paradox: High Quality of Life against All Odds" in Social Science and Medicine. Dr. Albrecht spoke on "The History and Context of Disability Studies" at the conference of the U.S. Government Interagency Subcommittee on Disability Statistics, presented lectures at the Institut Pasteur and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Sociales in Paris, gave the University Lecture at Northern Illinois University, and was an invited presenter at the Conference on World Affairs sponsored by the University of Colorado, Boulder. He served as a member of the Social Science Grant Review Panel of the Australian Research Council, as a study section member of the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and as a member of the Committee on Society and Persons with Disabilities of the American Sociological Association.

Shaffdeen A. Amuwo, PhD, associate dean for community, government, and alumni affairs, and assistant professor, Community Health Sciences Division, was interviewed in February by Wanda Wells, host of Channel 32’s "32 This Week" on the involvement of African-Americans in public health. Dr. Amuwo worked with local departments of public health, federal health agencies, and community organizations to bring the PreventionVille exhibit, a walk-through display highlighting nearly 200 ways public health serves the public developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to Chicago and arranged for its exposition at the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago during national Public Health Week in April.

Steven Andes, PhD, research assistant professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, was the recipient of a Residence Life Program Award presented by UIC’s Campus Housing Office in recognition of his efforts to "challenge and support students and help them become successful learners."

Bernard H. Baum, PhD, professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, was the recipient of the School of Public Health’s 1999 Golden Apple Award, given in recognition of outstanding teaching and unusual service to students at the school.

David Braddock, PhD, adjunct professor, Community Health Sciences Division, was one of eight outstanding faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago to receive 1998 University Scholar Awards from the University of Illinois Foundation.

Jacob A. Brody, MD, professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, was convened with other past directors of the National Institutes of Health-sponsored "Guam Project," research conducted on the region’s high incidence of diseases of the nervous system, to a conference held in Guam to explore new avenues for research. In January, he headed a team of epidemiologists for fifteen days in Nicaragua to advise community leaders on health issues following the destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch, with a goal of developing a local surveillance system that will permit residents to monitor maternal-child health and family and community violence. Dr. Brody gave a presentation on the importance of directing research toward the non-fatal diseases and conditions of old age at a meeting on "The Aging Factor in Health and Disease" organized by the International Longevity Center in New York.

Frank J. Chaloupka, PhD, director of the ImpacTeen program, Health Research and Policy Centers, discussed his study examining the effect of higher cigarette prices on cigarette demand and marijuana use among adolescents in a WBBM News Radio 78 interview aired on station newscasts in February.

Kendon J. Conrad, PhD, professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, was the first author of a book entitled Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness, published by The Haworth Press, Inc. The book was also published as a special double issue of Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. Dr. Conrad was first author of articles on "Creating and Using Logic Models: Four Perspectives" and "Representative Payee for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness at Community Counseling Centers of Chicago" in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly and "Characteristics of Persons with Mental Illness in a Representative Payee Program" in Psychiatric Services.

Faith G. Davis, PhD, director and professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, hosted co-investigators from the Biophysics Institute in Ozersk, Russia at a meeting at the School of Public Health in April to review progress on a joint project investigating the effects of chronic occupational radiation exposure from nuclear weapons production plants on reproductive outcomes. Other faculty involved in the project are Sally Freels, PhD, associate professor, and Bridget J. McCarthy, PhD, assistant professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, Arden Handler, DrPH, associate professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and Daniel O. Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH, professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology and Biostatistics Divisions, and director, Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health.

Viron L. Diefenbach, DDS, MPH, dean of the School of Public Health from 1978 to 1983, was named as the recipient of the John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award in Dental Public Health, to be presented at the November 1999 American Public Health Association Meeting in Chicago. Conferred by APHA, it is the highest award given in the field of public health dentistry and recognizes Dr. Diefenbach’s many contributions to public health and to dental public health in particular. In addition to acting as one of the school’s major planners, Dr. Diefenbach served as assistant surgeon general in the U.S. Public Health Service, director of the Division of Dental Health of the National Institutes of Health, and assistant executive director of the American Dental Association.

Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH, adjunct professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, contributed to a report on the relationship between air pollution and asthma and on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new clean air regulations which appeared on "The News Hour" in June.

Samuel S. Epstein, MD, professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, was the first UIC faculty recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." The awards were presented to winners, chosen by an international jury from over 100 candidates, on December 9, at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. The citation recognizes Dr. Epstein’s "exemplary life of scholarship wedded to activism on behalf of humanity," praises his work on the links between environmental pollution and cancer, and notes the work of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, which he founded. Dr. Epstein’s work in cancer prevention advocacy was featured in the April edition of Chicago Magazine.

William R. Hall, DDS, MPH, clinical associate professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, published an article entitled "Clinician Network Created to Increase Effectiveness through Information Sharing" in the spring edition of Health Source, the magazine of the Illinois Primary Health Care Association.

Arden Handler, DrPH, associate professor, Community Health Sciences Division (CHS), Deborah Rosenberg, PhD (‘98), Colleen Monahan, DC, MPH, adjunct assistant professor, CHS, and director of the Center for the Advancement of Distance Education, and Joan Kennelly, a PhD candidate in CHS, produced and co-edited a book on Analytic Methods in Maternal and Child Health, published by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Dr. Handler was voted president-elect of the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health in November.

Susan L. Hughes, DSW, professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and co-director, Center for Research on Health and Aging, was appointed to an Administration on Aging (AOA) expert panel to advise the AOA on its Performance Outcomes Measures Project, which is charged with developing outcomes measures for all services nationally funded wholly or in part by AOA. She is also the director of UIC’s new Midwest Roybal Center for Health Maintenance, one of only six Edward R. Roybal Centers for Research on Applied Gerontology in the nation funded through the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Hughes gave presentations on "Cost Effectiveness of Team-managed Home-based Primary Care" at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 17th Annual Health Services Research and Development Service Meeting and on the "Impact of Condition-specific Home Care Protocols" and "Evaluation of the Managed Community Care Program" at the 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.

Michele A. Kelley, ScD, MSW, MA, associate professor, Community Health Sciences Division, led a group of community representatives from the Chicago Social Networks collaborative research team to present at the Social Context of Pregnancy Conference, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta in February. The CDC-funded Social Networks project is a participatory research project designed to improve science through inclusion of members of the target population in all phases of the research process. This national dissemination of findings from the project was followed by a local dissemination held at a meeting of the School of Public Health’s Maternal and Child Community Health Science Consortium. Co-investigators on the project include Nadine R. Peacock, PhD, associate professor, and Noel Chávez, PhD, RD, LD, associate professor, Community Health Sciences Division.

Frederick J. Kviz, PhD, professor, Community Health Sciences Division, was first author of an article on "Providers’ Smoking Cessation Attitudes and Practices for Older Patients" in Behavioral Medicine.

Judith A. Levy, PhD, associate professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, had findings from her Community-based HIV Partner Notification Study reviewed in AIDS Daily, an Internet news publication produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was a member of the Behavioral and Science Research Planning Group convened by the National Institutes of Health Office of AIDS Research that developed the Fiscal Year 2001 NIH_Plan for HIV-related Research._The plan is a critical document that serves as the framework for the budget development process and also defines those research areas for which AIDS-designated funds may be allocated. Dr. Levy also served as a member of the focus group that met for three days to develop a plan for the future direction, scope, and size of the NIH-sponsored Centers for AIDS Research program, which currently funds seventeen centers located at academic and research institutions throughout the United States._

Paul S. Levy, ScD, professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association and was cited for "the development, evaluation, and dissemination of sample survey methodology; and for the design and implementation of surveys of major public health importance." Dr. Levy was section editor for "Design of Experiments and Sample Surveys" for the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics.

Susan R. Levy, PhD, CHES, professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Health Research and Policy Centers (HRPCs), was interviewed by NBC Channel 5 News health reporter Joan Esposito on women’s health issues on the 10:00PM news in November. Dr. Levy was honored by UIC Chancellor David Broski at the Sixth Annual Corporate and Foundation Recognition Luncheon in March for her work as principal investigator of Building Your Life: A Multiple Risk-Prevention Program. This initiative brings youth in Chicago Public Schools state-of-the-art, incremental, age-appropriate health education as an integral part of their overall curriculum. Dr. Levy was elected co-vice president of the Society for Public Health Education for 1999–2000. A long-time volunteer for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation at both the national and local levels, she was instrumental in arranging for computer assistance through the HRPCs to help the organization’s Greater Illinois Chapter establish a website to bring education and information on birth defects prevention to the chapter’s service area.

An Li, PhD, assistant professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, published articles on "Predicting Cosolvency. I. Solubility Ratio and Solute Log Kow" and "Predicting Cosolvency. II. Correlation with Solvent Physicochemical Properties" in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Dr. Li also had conference publications on the "Effect of Cosolvents on the Desorption and Electrokinetic Transport of PAHs in Soils" in the proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association’s 92nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition, "Surfactant/Cosolvent Enhanced Electrokinetic Remediation of PAH Contaminated Clayey Soils" in the proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Environmental Biotechnologies and Site Remediation Technology, and "Predicting Cosolvency Based on the Log-Linear Model" in preprints for the 216th American Chemical Society National Meeting. Dr. Li gave presentations on the "Effect of Cosolvents on the Electrokinetic Remediation of Soils Contaminated by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons" and "Optimization of Silica Gel Chromatographic Cleanup Procedure for Analyzing PAHs and PCBs in Sediments" at the 20th Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop and on "Cosolvent Enhanced Electrokinetic Remediation of Soils Contaminated by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons" at the 216th American Chemical Society National Meeting.

Naomi M. Morris, MD, MPH, professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and director of the Maternal and Child Health Program, was named as recipient of the Martha May Eliot Award, to be presented at the November 1999 Annual American Public Health Association Meeting in Chicago._Conferred by APHA, the award honors unusual achievement in the field of maternal and child health and is intended to bring such achievement to the attention of related professionals and the public. Dr. Eliot, one of the early directors of the United States Children’s Bureau, was one of Dr. Morris’s professors at the Harvard University School of Public Health while she was studying for her MPH there forty years ago.

Babette J. Neuberger, JD, MPH, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, was first author of The Legal Basis of Public Health: A Training Manual. Written for practitioners in state, county, and local health agencies, the manual was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Schools of Public Health and addresses the laws and regulations permeating the work of public health professionals. Tom Christoffel, JD, formerly a professor in the Health Policy and Administration Division, was co-author.

Victoria W. Persky, MD, professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, was named by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to direct the Chicago segment of a series of regional workshops on "The Environment, Your Health, and Our Neighborhoods." Co-sponsored by UIC and the Chicago Asthma Consortium, and attended by 150 people representing several Chicago communities, the meeting focused on diseases that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities and allowed participants to voice their concerns regarding U.S. research on pollution, poverty, and disease.

Thomas R. Prohaska, PhD, director and professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and co-director, Center for Research on Health and Aging, Health Research and Policy Centers, was quoted extensively regarding his research on health, aging, and exercise in an article on "Tips for Exercising after Age 50...Motivating Elders to Be Active" published on MSNBC, the Internet news produced by NBC.

Robert J. Rydman, PhD, associate professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, was first author of articles on "Patient Satisfaction with an Asthma Emergency Department Observation Unit" in Academic Emergency Medicine and on "Rate and Risk of Heat-related Illness in Hospital Emergency Departments during the 1995 Chicago Heat Disaster" in the Journal of Medical Systems. Dr. Rydman was quoted extensively in a New York Times article on deliberations at the Annual American Public Health Association Meeting entitled "Public Health Group Debates Managed Care."

Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD, dean, was chosen to serve as president-elect of the Association of Schools of Public Health for a one-year period beginning January 1, 1999, followed by a term as president during 2000. Dr. Scrimshaw was also elected to a two-year term as president of the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science, where she serves as the Institute of Medicine representative. Dr. Scrimshaw served on the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Expert Panel on Cancer Research among the Medically Underserved, which presented a major study entitled "The Unequal Burden of Cancer: An Assessment of NIH Research and Programs for Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved" in January. She was interviewed about the report on National Public Radio’s "Morning Edition" the day it was announced to the media. Dr. Scrimshaw was one of three senior editors of The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, an international and interdisciplinary social science handbook on health and medicine, published by Sage Publications. The handbook included a chapter co-authored by Dr. Scrimshaw entitled "Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding: Towards a Multilevel View of Sociomedical Methodology." She was the principal speaker on "The Role of the Media in the Delivery of Health Care to the Community" at the Seventh Annual Weathers Y. Sykes Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Humana Health Plan, Inc., at the Chicago Cultural Center in May.

Daniel Swartzman, JD, MPH, associate dean for student affairs and associate professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, is leading the School of Public Health’s new JD/MPH coordinated degree program, offered in partnership with the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Dr. Swartzman was appointed to the Chicago Turning Point Partnership, an advisory group which will meet over the next two years to advise on the Chicago Department of Public Health’s initiative to develop a new vision and plan for the future of public health in Chicago. Other faculty members named to the partnership were Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD, Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH, and Leslie Nickels, MEd.

Sharon Telleen, PhD, research associate professor, Health Policy and Administration Division (HPA), worked with Edward Mensah, PhD, associate professor, HPA, to develop a School of Public Health student tracking system to monitor students from the time of application through degree completion and on to alumni status as well as a database of field placement opportunities and preceptors, field placement forms, and instructions for students. Input was provided by other faculty including Noel Chávez, PhD, RD, LD, associate professor, Community Health Sciences Division, Charles A. Warren, PhD, assistant professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, and Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, PhD, associate professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division.

Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH, clinical professor, Community Health Sciences Division, was the recipient of the James R. Kimmey Award for Excellence in Health Planning and Practice from the American Public Health Association and the American Health Planning Association in recognition of his work in developing IPLAN, a statewide system of community health planning, as a part of Illinois’ Public Health Improvement Plan.

Charles A. Warren, PhD, assistant professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, had his research on brainwave signatures of gambling addicts featured in a program called "Pleasure Power" broadcast in March on The Learning Channel.

Richard B. Warnecke, PhD, professor of sociology, epidemiology, and public health, and director of the Health Policy Center and the Center for Health Services Research of the Health Research and Policy Centers, presented a colloquium entitled "Race, Politics, and Policy: The Impact of the Institute of Medicine Report on Minority Programs at NIH," co-sponsored by the UIC Department of Sociology and Programs in Health and Medicine and Race, Ethnicity and Gender in March.

Wayne Wiebel, PhD, professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, and director of the Community Outreach Intervention Projects, was quoted in ABC News’ online Health & Living News Summary in an article entitled "Surgeon Passes on HIV: Doctor-to-Patient Infection Raises Ethical Questions" in January. The Community Outreach Intervention Projects, a street-based HIV prevention program that uses harm-reduction principles and staff who are indigenous to the target populations, was featured in a story presented by reporter Carol Marin on the CBS Channel 2 News in May.

Paul Q. Peterson, MD, MPH, founding dean of the School of Public Health, was presented with the Alumni of the Year Award by members of the University of Illinois Alumni Club of Greater Washington, DC at the club’s Spring Gala held in the capital on May 23. Seventy guests, including ten members of Dr. Peterson’s family, Loren Taylor, president and CEO of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, Karen Glick, senior regional director of the University of Illinois Foundation, and Dean Susan Scrimshaw, were present to see Dr. Peterson honored for his leadership, vision, and contributions to the University of Illinois and to the field of public health at the state and national levels.