Alumni

Thank you for joining us at the 2nd Annual Alumni Summit for Public Health Leadership. Over 200 alumni and several faculty members participated in the event held on June 8, 2010 at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Program Roundup

The keynote program on the effectiveness of public health messaging featured a panel discussion comprised of Mailman School alumni and experts in the field. The panel was moderated by Sree Sreenivasan, professor and dean of student affairs at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. The day’s events, which included interdisciplinary skill-building sessions and a Career Services open house concluded with a reunion dinner and presentation of the Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence to James T. Harden, MBA’78, MPH’83, president and CEO of Catholic Health Services of Long Island. Special recognition was given to alumni celebrating their 5th, 10th and 25th year anniversaries.

Watch the video of the Keynote Address.

View Photos from the 2010 Alumni Summit.

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Interdisciplinary Skill-building Sessions 

1. Web 101: Practical Tips for Professional Networking on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn -  

   Sree Sreenivasan 
2. Grant Prep Boot Camp -
   Robyn Gershon
3. An Introduction to the Certified in Public Health Exam -

   Ian Lapp 
4. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health - Mark Becker
5. Lifetime and Estate Planning for You and Your Family - Michelle Cass

 
Making the Invisible Visible: A Panel Discussion on Effective Public Health Messaging

Remarks by
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Moderator:

• Sree Sreenivasan, Professor and Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Panelists:


• Julie Piotrowski, MPH '08, Speechwriter, Office of Public Health and Science, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Hannah Rosenzweig, MPH '05, Founder, Intention Media Inc.
• Josh Ruxin, PhD, MPH '94, Director, Access Project and the Millennium Villages Project in Rwanda, Columbia University's Earth Institute; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health in the Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School
  
• Monica Sweeney, MD, MPH '92, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene