Newsmakers
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* Natalie McGill

## Fraser named ASTHO executive director

APHA member Michael Fraser, PhD, MA, CAE, in August began his new role as executive director of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Fraser previously served as the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s executive vice president and CEO.

## Hanna-Attisha receives Ohio school’s public health award

APHA member Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, in May received the Thompson Public Health Award from the Ohio State University College of Public Health for her research regarding the Flint, Michigan, drinking water crisis that shed light on high levels of lead affecting the city’s children and families. Hanna-Attisha, director of the Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, received the award as a commencement speaker during the College of Public Health’s spring graduation.

## Healton named board chair of lung cancer organization

APHA member Cheryl Healton, DrPH, MPA, in June was named board chair of the Lung Cancer Alliance. Healton, who will begin the position in January, is the director of the New York University Global Institute of Public Health, dean of the university’s College of Global Public Health and is a university professor of global public health.

## Foley named New Hampshire immunization champion

Cindy Foley, RN, in May was named New Hampshire’s 2016 Childhood Immunization Champion. Foley received the award from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Public Health Services’ Immunization Program for her work in getting youth vaccinated as a primary vaccine manager at the Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield, New Hampshire.

## Lichtveld inducted into Johns Hopkins scholar society

Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, in April was inducted into the Society of Scholars of Johns Hopkins University. Lichtveld, a 1986 graduate of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is the Freeport McMoRan Chair of Environmental Health Policy at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her induction honored her more than three decades of work in environmental public health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

## Maryland health system receives national immunization award

Bon Secours Health System in May received a 2016 Immunization Excellence Award from the National Adult and Influenza Summit. The health system, based in Marriottsville, Maryland, was recognized for its high vaccination rates among patients within the system’s own Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organization.

## McKyer named Texas college’s associate dean of climate, diversity

Ellisa Lisako Jones McKyer, PhD, MPH, in May was named the associate dean of climate and diversity at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health’s Office of Cultural Competence, Diversity and Inclusion. McKyer is the research development director for the School of Public Health’s Center for Community Health Development. She also serves as the associate director for the Texas A&M’s College of Education and Human Development’s Transdisciplinary Center for Health Equity Research.

## Patten named fellow to national physical therapist organization

Carolynn Patten, PhD, PT, in June was recognized as the Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association at the association’s Next 2016 Conference and Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee. Patten is a senior investigator with the Veterans Affairs Brain Rehabilitation Research Center.

## Spiegel named new director for university’s refugee health program

Paul Spiegel, MD, MPH, in March was named the new director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Refugee and Disaster Response. Spiegel previously served as deputy director of the Division of Programme Management and Support Services under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

## University of Arizona Health Sciences faculty receive awards

Jessica Moreno, MD, and Cecilia Rosales, MD, MS, in June each received a Cause for Change Award from Chicanos Por La Causa Inc. Moreno, an assistant professor at the Department of Obstetrics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, and Rosales, assistant dean and professor at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, received their awards for their work in providing health care services to underserved populations.

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