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Each semester, Gloria Friedgen, SPH’s graduate coordinator, works hard to put together our newsletter, which is coming out this week. The Healthy Turtle got an early peek at it, and this semester’s newsletter is chock-full of fun things. Among them:

* Glimpses back at our renovations progress;
* The Madieu Williams Center for Global Health Initiatives press conference;
* A notice about the spring’s Maryland Day;
* Information about the new student group, PHEAR;
* A piece on Dr. Rima Rudd’s visit to the Herschel S. Horowitz Health Literacy Center;
* And updates from Dean Gold and all of the department chairs.

One of The Healthy Turtle’s favorite features though, is the page of new faces at SPH. Each new faculty and staff member answered a whole bunch of fun questions about their hobbies, families and favorites. The only downside about the page is that each individual gave about 20 really interesting answers, and there was room enough for only two or three responses. So we are going to publish some of their interviews in their entirety on the blog.

So first up is Linda Vause, the new Faculty Research Assistant for Stress, Health and Addiction Research Program. She can be found in the Department of Public and Community Health. Here’s a bit about her:

Most recent job before UMD SPH: I wrote curriculum for an education management company in Tysons Corner. We designed and developed youth leadership programs…I retired from the Montgomery County Public School System after working many years as a school library media specialist and technology instructional specialist.
Education: BS, MLS University of Maryland….Go Terps!!
Your Public Health message for the World: There is no reason why people in our country, with its abundant resources, should be hungry. Proper nutrition is a key factor in promoting healthy, physical, social and intellectual growth.
Favorite part about being a part of UMD SPH: Being back on campus, rooting for the Terps and seeing how much has, and has not, changed since I was a student.
Hobbies: I enjoy golfing when the weather cooperates and I love art, both as a designer and as an appreciator.
Most exciting place you have visited/lived: Two places stand out, and they were both at the summit of mountains: Victoria Peak in Hong Kong and Ptarmigan Pass in the Rockies. Guess I like heights.
Favorite color: green
Food(s) you’d have a hard time living without: chocolate
Perfect weekend: Sightseeing with my husband, either locally or a bit farther away.
Something you’re good at: Organizing, although much of it is in my head.
Favorite season: Fall
Proudest of: Raising three wonderful children who tolerate my humor and love to come home for some good cooking.
Role model: Rosa Parks. I wish I could have met her. I admire her bravery and that she was part of the solution and didn’t sit back, watching. In the past, I wish I had been more assertive when the opportunity was there.
Goals: To embrace learning new things whenever I can. I also want to be more physically fit. I imagine that being a part of SPH will facilitate that!

Welcome to SPH! If you’d like to reach Linda, you can e-mail here at lvause@umd.edu.

Keep your eyes open for the newsletter coming out this week. In the meantime, take a look back at last semester’s.

The UMD-Prevention Research Center of the School of Public Health announced its launch in conjunction with campus events recognizing World AIDS Day. It was a perfect setting for the launch, as the Center’s initial focus will be on HIV/STD prevention in the area.

The UMD-PRC is one of only 35 centers of its kind, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It aims to unite community members, academic researchers, and public health agencies to identify health disparities and develop innovative ways to promote health and prevent disease. Our PRC is unique, in that it will focus on a specific geographical area: UMD-PRC is dedicated to shrinking the health disparity gap of the national capital border in Prince George’s County.

The announcement was made at the “Universal Access and Human Rights” World AIDS Day event, co-sponsored by UMD-PRC and the campus’s Nyumburu Cultural Center.

The Center has already been collaborating with the Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition, a regional STD/HIV prevention enterprise, to organize counseling and testing events in Prince George’s County, and it has been cataloging current and potential partners that may provide resources for addressing STD/HIV in Prince George’s County.

UMD-PRC and its partners are preparing to tackle the challenges ahead. Among the Prince George’s County statistics, 5,578 persons living with HIV and AIDS as of June 30, 2008, and the 2007 estimate of reported syphilis cases in the county is 11.2 per 100,000.

Local officials spoke at the event, and recognized the great potential of building a partnership with UMD-PRC…

Mayor Eugene Grant, the City of Seat Pleasant: “We believe that having a partnership with an institution like the University of Maryland, one of the greatest institutions here in the United States, and for that matter, in the world, is where we have an incubation of thought.”

Dr. Donald Shell, health officer of Prince George’s County: “I think it’s a wonderful partnership with the School of Public Health here on campus for the Prince George’s County Health Department, and I think only great things will continue to happen.”

Dr. Yvette Butler, founder of GapBuster Learning Center, Inc., a nonprofit educational program dedicated to closing the performance gap of students: “We know that with us together, we can conquer HIV.”

Learn more about the UMD-PRC; CDC Prevention Research Center program; Prince George’s County Health Department; Nyumburu Cultural Center; GapBusters; and Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition.

The UMD-Prevention Research Center of the School of Public Health announced its launch in conjunction with campus events recognizing World AIDS Day. It was a perfect setting for the launch, as the Center’s initial focus will be on HIV/STD prevention in the area.

The UMD-PRC is one of only 35 centers of its kind, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It aims to unite community members, academic researchers, and public health agencies to identify health disparities and develop innovative ways to promote health and prevent disease. Our PRC is unique, in that it will focus on a specific geographical area: UMD-PRC is dedicated to shrinking the health disparity gap of the national capital border in Prince George’s County.

The announcement was made at the “Universal Access and Human Rights” World AIDS Day event, co-sponsored by UMD-PRC and the campus’s Nyumburu Cultural Center.

The Center has already been collaborating with the Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition, a regional STD/HIV prevention enterprise, to organize counseling and testing events in Prince George’s County, and it has been cataloging current and potential partners that may provide resources for addressing STD/HIV in Prince George’s County.

UMD-PRC and its partners are preparing to tackle the challenges ahead. Among the Prince George’s County statistics, 5,578 persons living with HIV and AIDS as of June 30, 2008, and the 2007 estimate of reported syphilis cases in the county is 11.2 per 100,000.

Local officials spoke at the event, and recognized the great potential of building a partnership with UMD-PRC…

Mayor Eugene Grant, the City of Seat Pleasant: “We believe that having a partnership with an institution like the University of Maryland, one of the greatest institutions here in the United States, and for that matter, in the world, is where we have an incubation of thought.”

Dr. Donald Shell, health officer of Prince George’s County: “I think it’s a wonderful partnership with the School of Public Health here on campus for the Prince George’s County Health Department, and I think only great things will continue to happen.”

Dr. Yvette Butler, founder of GapBuster Learning Center, Inc., a nonprofit educational program dedicated to closing the performance gap of students: “We know that with us together, we can conquer HIV.”

Learn more about the UMD-PRC; CDC Prevention Research Center program; Prince George’s County Health Department; Nyumburu Cultural Center; GapBusters; and Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition.