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Dr. Eric Bing Named Global Health Research Ambassador
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Global Health Research Ambassadors Named; Leaders Will Push for More U.S. Support |
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US Newswire |
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11/20/2006 |
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To: National Desk |
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Contact: Anne Kosmoski, 202-775-0200, for Research! America or Cindy McConnell of Research! America, 703-739-2577, ext. 35 |
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Twenty-seven of the nation's foremost experts in global health will band together to advocate for greater U.S. investment in global health research. |
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These prominent scientists include a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and experts in malaria and other infectious diseases, child health, dentistry, nursing, geriatrics, psychiatry and economics. These individuals will comprise the inaugural class of Ambassadors in the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research. |
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The Rogers Society is named for the former Florida Congressman, renowned champion for research to improve health and current Research!America chair emeritus. Research!America launched the Society this summer to increase awareness of-and make the case for greater U.S. investment in-research to fight diseases that disproportionately affect the world's poorest nations. |
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"Each Ambassador is a true credit to Paul Rogers and each will carry on his effective model of education and advocacy," said The Honorable John Edward Porter, chair of the Society's Advisory Council and Research!America board chair. "Individually and as a unified voice, they will provide crucial leadership in our mission to increase U.S. support for global health research." |
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Members of this prestigious research advocacy team are recognized leaders in medical and global public health research and represent a spectrum of the nation's "scientist advocates." Selected by an Advisory Council that includes three Nobel Laureates, the inaugural class of Ambassadors will work to build a national discussion about the need to assign a high priority to global health research. Ambassadors will meet with opinion leaders and decision makers to convey the importance of global health research to Americans and to the nation. |
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Research!America will provide advocacy leadership development to the Ambassadors and facilitate their public outreach and advocacy through speaking engagements and a range of community- level activities to connect with policy makers, opinion leaders, the media and the public nationwide. |
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The Paul G. Rogers Society was established with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
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Research!America is the nation's largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority. Founded in 1989, it is supported by more than 500 member organizations, which represent more than 125 million Americans. For more information, visit http://www.researchamerica.org. |
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2006 Ambassadors in the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research |
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C. Ross Anthony, PhD
Director of Global Health and Co-Director of the Center for Domestic and International Health Security, RAND |
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Margaret E. Bentley, PhD
Associate Dean for Global Health, Professor of Nutrition, UNC at Chapel Hill School of Public Health |
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Eric G. Bing, MD, PhD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science |
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Robert Edward Black, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of
Public Health
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Michael Cappello, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbial Pathogenesis, and Epidemiology and Public Health,
Yale University School of Medicine |
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Lois K. Cohen, PhD
Consultant, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research |
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Christopher J. Elias MD, MPH
President, PATH |
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William B. Greenough, III, MD
Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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Richard L. Guerrant, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases; Thomas H. Hunter Professor of International Medicine; Director, Center for Global Health, University of Virginia School of Medicine |
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Scott M. Hammer, MD
Harold C. Neu Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University |
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James E. K. Hildreth, PhD, MD
Director, Comprehensive Center for Health Disparities Research in HIV;
Professor of Internal Medicine Meharry Medical College |
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King Holmes, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Global Health,
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine |
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William Holzemer, RN, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs; Director, WHO Collaborating Center, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing |
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Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine,
The George Washington University Medical Center |
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Michael Katz, MD
Senior Vice President for Research and Global Programs, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; Carpentier Professor, Emeritus, Pediatrics and Professor, Emeritus, Public Health,
Columbia University |
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Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH
Vice President for Academic Health Affairs, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University |
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Beverly McElmurry, EdD, RN
Professor and Associate Dean for Global Health Leadership; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing |
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Marjorie Muecke, PhD, RN
Assistant Dean for Global Health Programs and Adjunct Professor of Nursing,
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing |
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Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil
Director, Global Health Initiative, Harvard University; Richard B. Saltonstall Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University School of Public Health |
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Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health,
University of Michigan Medical School |
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Nilda P. Peragallo, DrPH, RN
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Miami |
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Les Roberts, PhD, MPH
Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University |
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Leon E. Rosenberg, MD
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University |
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Thomas G. Streit, CSC, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame |
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Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD
Amos Christie Chair in Global Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
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Kenneth E. Warner, PhD
Dean and Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health,
University of Michigan School of Public Health |
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Peter F. Wright, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
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©2006 Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, All rights reserved.
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