Adrienne L. King has been awarded the H. Kenneth Dillon Scholarship for the academic year 2009-2010. She is a 4th year PhD student in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences under the mentorship of Dr. Shannon M. Bailey. This scholarship was established by family, alumni, friends and admirers in honor and memory of Dr. Dillon who was a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in recognition of his service as a scholar, mentor, teacher and friend.

JoAnne Balanay and Shaun Crawford were both awarded AIHA scholarships for 2009. The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Scholarship is endowed from funds donated by the Association. All students meeting the AIHF general scholarship criteria are eligible for this scholarship. The Foundation’s annual scholarship program awards scholarships to students studying industrial hygiene and related disciplines.

The 137th Annual Meeting & Exposition will be held this year in Philadelphia, PA on November 7-11, 2009.

APHA Registration and Housing are now open! Register now and save $115 with the early-bird discount! Registration information can be found at www.apha.org/meetings/registration. Register online and reserve hotel rooms at the same time.

Effective community-health research doesn’t exist in a bubble. It brings together community members who appreciate the role of research in diminishing health and social inequities and academic researchers who value consumer involvement in all phases of research. The Building Bridges lecture series addresses the benefits—and challenges—of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to establish partnerships between UAB researchers and the community.

The recent H1N1 flu outbreak served to be a genuine test of our national public health system’s ability to respond to an emerging public health threat and experts are cautioning that a more severe outbreak could occur in the fall of 2009. Leaders from some of the Nation’s foremost public health and medical associations will conduct a briefing for staff members from House and Senate offices on Thursday, May 21, 2009.

Dr. John P. Bentley (Department of Biostatistics) is the Recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Masters Student Award

Each year, The University of Alabama at Birmingham formally recognizes students for outstanding scholastic achievement, leadership, and service to the school and community. This year, John Bentley, was chosen to receive the award during the UAB Honors Convocation for the School of Public Health.

The School of Public Health held its 2009 Covocation on May 7th at the Alys Stephens Center. Some of the award recipients were: Dr. Gerald McGwin, Distinguished Faculty Investigator; Dr. Andy Rucks, Outstanding Public Health Service Award; Dr. David Redden, President's Award for Teaching Excellence; Ms. Cheryl Johnson, Outstanding Staff Public Health Service Award; Dr.

Want to stay healthy? Don't be poor.

That was the message Monday at a conference held by the school of public health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The event, called "The Impact of Poverty on our Community," focused on how economic hardship can harm people's physical and mental health.

It's an impact that may be felt more widely as Birmingham residents lose their jobs in a stagnating economy, participants said.

The Department of Health Care Organization and Policy is pleased to announce a new departmental concentration: Maternal and Child Health Policy and Leadership. This concentration will utilize the strengths of the MCH and HCOP programs by providing strong MCH content and essential underpinnings in health policy and leadership. The MCH Policy and Leadership concentration will offer the following degrees: the MPH, dual degrees with the MPH/MSW and the MPH/MSN and a DrPH degree.

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The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are pleased to request nominations for the Eighth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The award will be conferred on Wed 9/16/2009. The award recipient will be invited to deliver a lecture at the UAB award ceremony, and will receive all expenses paid to deliver this lecture, a plaque, and a $5,000 prize.