Fall 2001 Issue
Heilbrunn Center Welcomes Dr. Wendy Chavkin as Interim Department Chair
In June of 2001, Dr. Wendy Chavkin accepted the position of Interim Chair of the Department of Population and Family Health. Dr. Chavkin is taking over for Dr. McCarthy who stepped down as center director to accept a position at the University Of New Hampshire. Dr. Chavkin will be heading up the department through the summer of 2001.
Dr. Chavkin is a Professor of Clinical Public Health here at the Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health and a Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her major current research project is Finding Common Ground, a project dedicated to developing a public health agenda that integrates the healthcare needs and rights of women and children in the context of welfare reform. Dr. Chavkin is also the Editor-in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Women’s association, an Associate Contributing Editor for Women’s Health for the American Journal of Public Health, and chair of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.
In her time as department chair, Dr. Chavkin hopes to develop the “airbridge” between programs and communities in Washington Heights and the Dominican Republic. She would also like to focus on reproductive health research in New York City and convene the department’s clinical programs and other public sector reproductive health providing agencies to develop a reproductive health research agenda for New York City.
Dr. Chavkin stated, “I think that this year offers an opportunity for the department to do a ‘tune up’ and create a wish list of what we would like to accomplish in the near future”. To this end, she has formed several commit-tees, included a management committee and an academic affairs committee, to bring in participants from different perspectives within the department.
The Heilbrunn center is tremendously pleased to have Dr. Chavkin as department chair. We welcome her to her new position and look forward to an exciting and productive year.
Center News
At the suggestion of Dr. Wendy Chavkin, Interim Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health, a Management Team and an Academic Affairs Committee have been formed.
Management Team: The seven members will participate in monthly discussions relating to HCPFH’s central financial and administrative operations. The initial focus of the group will be on work space and center finances. The membership includes 3 faculty members and 4 administrators. Dr. Wendy Chavkin, Interim Director, and Dr. Andy Davidson, Vice Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health, will serve as advisors to the team. The members are Dr. Linda F. Cushman, Dr. Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Dr. Faith Lamb-Parker, Ruben Santiago, Edith Abreu, Meredith Becker, and Thomas Hoppel.
Academic Affairs Committee: The committee includes 7 faculty members (Wendy Chavkin, Debra Kalmuss, Ronald Waldman, Therese McGinn, Alayne Adams, Lorraine Tiezzi, Sally Findley), and 2 administrators (Ellen Bahr, and Marnie Davidoff). The committee will hold meetings on a regular basis (approximately monthly) to discuss issues related to the Center’s academic programs. The committee’s role is advisory, and its existence may be transitory or ongoing, depending on decisions taken by the future Department Chair. To date, the committee has focused on agenda items suggested by committee members, including: the Center policy on fourth-semester GRAs, the development of international practica, the Capstone paper requirement, and the Hispanic fellows program. Future agenda items may include the Population Studies Course formerly offered by the department, faculty promotions, an overview of the admissions process, and the relationship between the Reproductive, Adolescent, and Child Health program and the Forced Migration program.
The Finding Common Ground project began its study, “The Impact of Welfare Reform on the Health of Chronically Ill Children and their Mothers,” in New York City in August. The study is exploring the experiences of low-income families with children who have chronic illnesses in the context of new welfare policies, through a series of structured interviews. The study has an educational component as the interviews are being conducted by second-year pediatric residents who come to the project during their rotation in community pediatrics and by first-year medical students doing their selective clinical rotations. The ultimate goal of the study is to identify the needs of poor families with chronically ill children and provide that information to health care providers, researchers, community advocates, and policymakers in time for the reauthorization of the 1996 welfare reform legislation.
The Community-Based Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, coordinated by Maricela Ureno - part of the Community Health Education Program, directed by Lorraine Tiezzi- completed a three-year intervention in which they followed a cohort through 6th, 7th and 8th grade at I.S 143. They had a very successful program and are beginning this year with the new 6th grade cohort.
DEATH OF ROBERT H. HEILBRUNN
Robert Heilbrunn, a philanthropist, investor, and the Center’s most ardent supporter, died Sunday, November 18, at age 93. He and his wife, Harriet, were loyal benefactors of the Mailman School of Public Health as well as other organizations for many years. In 2000, they established a permanent endowment for the Center for Population and Family Health, prompting the renaming of the center as the Harriet J. and Robert H. Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health, in recognition of their generosity. The Heilbrunns also established the Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professorship in Population and Family Health in 1997. In 1993, they helped to fund the construction of a new family planning and reproductive health clinic in Washington Heights. Robert Heilbrunn’s contributions to the field of Public Health have been invaluable. He will be greatly missed.
Congratulations to:
- Bruce Armstrong joined the editorial board of a new peer-reviewed journal, the International Journal of Men’s Health.
- Lisa Maldonado was elected secretary of APHA’s Latino caucus.
- Roger Vaughan was appointed consulting editor for statistics for the American Journal of Public Health.
- Deborah Maine receiving the Carl Schultz award at APHA Deborah Maine was this year’s recipient of the Carl Schultz award given at the American Public Health Association’s annual conference in Atlanta, this October. This award memorializes Carl S. Shultz, a pediatrician and publicservant who was instrumental in the creation and implementation of the Federal Family Planning Program commonly referred to as Title X. Awardees comprise an honor roll of the field of reproductive health in the U.S. and around the World.
- Steven Sinding was presented as the new Director-General Designate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, based in London. He will be beginning the new position at the end of summer, 2002. We all wish him well in his new role at IPPF
- Alicia Ely Yamin was selected as one of the recipients of the 2001-2002 Calderone Award for Junior Faculty Development. The award will allow her to pursue research on the effects of health sector reform in Peru on the rights of women to access services necessary for safe motherhood.
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New Staff/Staff Spotlight
- Josehanny Batista, Admin. Coordinator, McGinn
- Roopa Chakkappan, Admin. Asst., Aguirre-Molina
- Lorraine Cohen, Asst. Director, Finance/Admin., Head Start
- Marnie Davidoff, Program Coordinator, Refugee
- Lucille de Lucena, Senior Project Manager, AMDD
- Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Asst. Prof., Soc.Work/Public Health
- Barbara Kwast, Senior Lecturer, AMDD
- Tessa Lemos-Del Pino, Program Coordinator, Chavkin
- Ruth Madison, Program Coordinator, Head Start
- Dananjali Ratnayaka, Research Assistant, Wawer
- Ruben Santiago, Deputy Director, CHEP
- Nancy Saphier, Program Coordinator, CHEP
- Katrina Stamas, Program Coordinator, AMDD
- Pamela Sternfels, Project Coordinator, Findley
- Vera Vaystub, Junior Accountant, CHEP
- Maggie Groh, Coord. Social Work
- Paulina Loo, Psychiatrist
- Victor Paz - Financial Manager
- Charles Soule - Psychologist
- Caroline Volel, MD
- Maggie Groh, Coord. Social Work
- Paulina Loo, Psychiatrist
- Victor Paz - Financial Manager
- Charles Soule - Psychologist
- Caroline Volel, MD
- Sabrina Berger, Health Advocate at IS 52
- Elena Quiles, Health Advocate at IS 143
- Gladys Correa, Asst. Clinic Director, Family Planning
- Diana Hernandez, Pt. Representative, Family Planning
- Yenny Ramos - Medical Assistant
- Yelena Mazler - Social Worker, IS 52
- Brad Kerner - Health Educator, IS 136
- Betty Boyle, Nurse Practitioner, IS 136
- Dawn Nero - Psychologist, IS 164
- Betty Diaz - Health Advocate, GWHS
- Marisol De Leon - HIV Health Educator, GWHS
- Ken Wilson, Psychologist - GWHS
- Juliana Ortiz - Psychologist, IS 143
- D. Watts-Jones - Psychologist, IS 136
- Anne Boylon - Social Worker, IS 52
STAFF SPOTLIGHT: Ellen Bahr
For most students in the Population and Family Health Department, Ellen Bahr is their main link to what is going on in the Center. Serving as Program Coordinator since August, Ellen has quickly become indispensable to students’ needing assistance with a wide variety of matters. In many ways an extension of the Office of Student Affairs, her role is designed to serve the specific needs of Pop/Fam students. Ellen explained, “ I see myself as an advocate for Pop/Fam students, and try to ensure good communication among students, faculty, and university administrators.” Although acting in a different capacity, Ellen is not a new face at the center- prior to accepting the position of Program Coordinator, she worked as Administrative Coordinator for the Forced Migration program for three years.
Before coming to Columbia, Ellen worked for almost 10 years at a student exchange organization in New York called the “Council on International Educational Exchange”, which included a two-year stint working in their Paris office. She grew up in Wisconsin and received a BA in French and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and, in 1994, earned an MA in French Studies from NYU. In addition, Ellen was recently accepted into the program in Instructional Technology and Media at Columbia’s Teachers College where she is currently taking classes towards her MA.
Ellen is enjoying her new position at the Center. She states, “I feel lucky to be working with such a great group of students, staff, and faculty. Everyone is very focused and committed to their work, which makes my job easy.”
MSPH and Center Respond to September 11 Tragedy
In the wake of the terrorist attack on September 11, the Mailman School of Public Health has assembled its vast array of resources and expertise to formulate a response to the tragedy and provide public health information. This reaction has included re-sponding to environmental health concerns relating to the disaster, mental health chal-lenges created by the tragedy, and emergency preparedness in the face of potential future danger. MSPH students have also done their part, helping to collect over $3000 in donations to contribute to the Red Cross.
The Heilbrunn Center has assumed an important role in the School’s efforts, helping to organize a variety of educational and informational events. Among these was brown bag lunch discussion with Dr. Tila Khan, Medical Director of the International Rescue Committee, who works with Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
In addition, Center faculty and students have been instrumental in the formation of the school-wide Reflection and Action Committee which is coordinating the school’s response to the attacks. The committee, chaired by center professors Marilyn Aguirre-Molina and Sally Findley, is examining a broad range of actions and issues relating to the attack and relevant to the public health community. Katherine Yanda, PopFam student, serves on the coordinating committee as a student representative.
The RAC committee has formed several working groups, each focusing on different aspects of the response. These school-wide working groups are composed of faculty, staff, and students. The International Working Group is dealing with issues relating to the military and humanitarian responses, while the Legislation/Discrimination Working Group is focusing on anti-immigrant discrimination and the impact on civil rights. Concentrating their efforts more locally, The Local Action Working Group is facilitating volunteer activism and recovery efforts within New York City and the Communications Working Group is the central hub of information and support.
The RAC committee has hosted several health science campus-wide events, including a town hall forum and an informational meeting about disaster preparedness and bioterrorism. The committee also has been working in close collaboration with the Mailman School’s Center for Public Health Preparedness. Stated Aguierre-Molina, “This disaster has presented us with the challenge of providing a public health response and the opportunity to do our part in channeling our concerns to a productive end”. The Mailman School of Public Health and the Heilbrunn Center are rising to the challenge.
Students’ Summer Internship Experiences
Paige Trabulsi: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
I spent the summer in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic working with a sexual and reproductive health non-profit agency called PROFAMILIA. More specifically, I conducted research on early sexual experiences among the adolescent beneficiaries of the peer education program. I held four focus groups, designed and applied a self-administered survey to 161 participants. Linda Cushman visited PROFAMILIA for a week during my stay there because she is working with them on several different projects. Linda’s encouragement and guidance helped me immensely, and I learned a great deal from my experience.
Donna Sherard: Kampala, Uganda
I worked with DISH (Delivery of Improved Services for Health) in Kampala, Uganda. DISH is a USAID funded project and is managed by Johns Hopkins University and the Uganda Ministry of Health. I worked to develop an adolescent-focused early pregnancy, STD, and HIV prevention program to be delivered through the district health center service providers in the 12 districts that DISH focuses its efforts. During the course of my work I met with service providers and conducted site visits to determine what the adolescent services should consist of, developed the communication strategy and coordinated with a local NGO for adolescent focused materials and radio programming, and coordinated the development and contracting of peer educator and service provider training. Although the project is just being implemented now, my end result was a implementation strategy document that is being used by DISH as this project continues and will hopefully be replicated with other ARH projects as appropriate.
Antigoni Koumpounis: Bujumbura, Burundi
The purpose of my summer internship was to conduct research that would provide UNFPA Burundi with a situation analysis and a needs assessment of current NGO programming targeting youth sexual and reproductive health, and make relevant and appropriate recommendations to UNFPA Burundi. Together with a local translator whom I trained, we conducted 24 in-depth interviews, largely with NGOs. We also carried-out 4 focus groups with youth who are currently receiving services from some of these organizations and had a one day participatory workshop. The experience was frustrating, challenging, and rewarding in many ways, both professionally and personally. I had never before lived in an area of low-intensity conflict nor worked with a population effected by an on-going civil war. The work I carried out in Burundi provided me with many lessons regarding how to address reproductive health issues in such a context, the obstacles as well as the approaches that can be effective, and how to cope under such circumstances. In order to create the interview tool, conduct focus groups, write up the interviews, and train my translator, I used skills acquired from research design and program management courses, as well as previous qualitative experi-ence. This internship also gave me my first opportunity to conduct a workshop, which was a significant learning experience.
William Fernandez, M.D.: Pristina, Kosovo
I went to Kosovo this summer to conduct 2 research projects- to perform injury surveillance at a regional trauma center and to explore the social and psychological reasons associated with emergency department use in the post-conflict setting. These projects were conducted at the University of Pristina Medical Center Emergency Center. Data for the injury surveillance project has been submitted for presentation with the Global Health Council, as well as the International Conference of Emergency Medicine. The statistical analysis of the social epidemiology project is being conducted presently, and will be ready for presentation this winter. Based on the surveillance data, it appears that additional attention should be paid to safety around homes that are being rebuilt, particularly with respect to absent protective barriers and unsecured hazardous chemicals. These may be important areas of focus for public health interventions aimed at reducing injuries in post-conflict Kosovo.
Rachel Waxman: Eritrea
My summer internship took me to Eritrea where I worked with UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). My work mostly focused on the development of a project document in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and three national NGO’s for a humanitarian response project of UNFPA for reproductive health services. I learned a lot about the project design process and met a lot of interesting and dynamic people as we worked to organize the project. Working on this project gave me some good hands-on experience in maternal and reproductive health programming and the issues that face a specific country in trying to deal with health care delivery, STDs/HIV and maternal mortality. I also really enjoyed the opportunity to work in another part of Africa (I was in Senegal for three years) and learn about this new country (really new, Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1991) and its people.
Minal Amin: Tajikistan, Russian Federation, and Bhutan
This summer, I was hired by the World Food Programme to conduct a national level survey in 3 countries-Tajikistan, Russian Federation, and Bhutan. The survey focused on key aspects of each country including educational sector, country-wide school feeding programs, external assistance, and health sector activities. While in countries, I met with appropriate Ministry officials, UN officials, and NGO representatives as well as with beneficiaries of School feeding programs to compile the relevant data and information. I reported the information back to the country office, regional WFP office and to the School Feeding Unit at headquarters. Dates for the consultancy were late May to late August. I found the experience to be very rewarding and learned a lot about the WFP and internal policies/regulations of the UN. I also had the opportunity to travel to the North Caucasus and meet with some Chechen IDPs to assess the feasibility of school feeding programs in the IDP camps, which was perhaps the highlight of my work with WFP.
Samantha Lobis: Ghana
During the summer of 2001, I worked as an intern for the Regional Prevention of Maternal Mortality Network (RPMM) at the Juaben Government Hospital (JGH) in Ghana. The focus of my internship was a retrospective study on the quality of obstetric care at the hospital. After reviewing hospital registers and charts, I extracted all cases of obstetric complications for the year 2000, calculated the case-fatality rate and reviewed the files of the three maternal deaths for that year. The results of this study showed that, overall, the quality of obstetric care at Juaben was excellent and that they were saving many lives. I determined that, through obtaining more staff, building a larger maternity ward, and improving data collection, even better obstetric care could be delivered. In my final report to the staff at JGH, I recommended conducting “near-miss” and criterion-based audits which would allow the staff to continue to monitor the quality of obstetric care and at the same time, through the audit-cycle, continue to improve specific aspects of service delivery. This was a wonderful experience that allowed me to learn how to operationalize reproductive health standards and to observe successful public health interventions which have reduced maternal mortality.
Mike Lee: Orissa State, India
The director of Asha Kiran Hospital, Dr. Thomas, and I met in February of 2001 at the AMDD workshop. It seemed like a dream as I arrived at the hospital after a bone-jarring 6-hour trip up the Eastern Ghatt Mountains of Orissa State, India. The hospital serves isolated tribal communities who are among the poorest and most marginalized in the country. The tribal communities are groups of aboriginal people who have inhabited this area of India long before the arrival of the Hindu people. For 2 months this past summer, I was the main investigator for a study examining the health care expenses of surrounding villages. This information would eventually assist the hospital in designing a pilot prepaid health care scheme project. I designed a survey and conducted the study in three villages. I also had a chance to participate in many clinical activities, such as making prenatal care visits to outlying villages and assisting the surgeon in the operation theater.It was a fantastic summer, and I was absolutely inspired by all the dedicated health professionals in the hospital who had given up the comfort and luxuries of city life to be in this isolated rural area.
Maureen Malave: Somaliland, East Africa
I went to Somaliland, East Africa, with the International Rescue Committee. I spent 2 months there and my job was to conduct a baseline reproductive and child health survey in Burco, a town of 100,000 people. With the help of the Somali and international staff, I designed the instrument and had it translated, decided on a sample size, and figured out our sampling plan. We hired interviewers and supervisors and implemented the survey and the data is now being analyzed in Nairobi. Burco is a fundamentalist Muslim town, and IRC was one of only 2 NGO’s in the town. Somaliland is in a post-conflict phase, and is still considered relatively high security. I wore Muslim dress and head cover all summer, we were escorted everywhere we went (including on morning jogs), and we had guards 24 hours a day at our house. There were no security incidents while we were there, but the international IRC staff were evacuated after September 11.
Kavita Bali: Alumni Experience,
AMDD Summer in Rajasthan Providing quality Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) services remains a challenge in India, where restrictive government policies and lack of attention to the needs of women in many areas hinder progress. As a Program Coordinator with AMDD, I had the opportunity to spend the summer assisting our UNFPA Rajasthan team develop data collection tools and improve the existing Management Information System (MIS). In order to better understand public health delivery in India and the difficulties in providing quality EmOC services in Rajasthan, I first made several visits to local hospitals and health facilities. As part of the MIS improvement efforts, our team reviewed labor room and ward registers and realized that much of the information needed to monitor EmOC utilization and practices was missing or incomplete in the records. We also undertook a survey of various blood banks in project districts and found that there were both lack of blood supplies as well as access to this blood by women. Based on our findings, new registers were developed and are currently being field tested, and national policies regarding blood banking are being re-examined. Being able to use many of the skills I had learned during my public health training at Columbia was not only rewarding but also recognized and appreciated by those with whom I worked.
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Center Projects Focus on Washington Heights-Dominican Republic “Airbridge” Tragedy
Continuing the Heilbrunn Center’s commitment to serving the communities of northern Manhattan, the Center is currently involved in a number of projects that target the health needs of this largely Dominican population, whose migratory experiences are often characterized as “bidirectional”. These projects include several studies that explore the “airbridge” involved in the circular migration between the communities of Washington Heights and those in the Dominican Republic.
One of the Center’s most recently funded endeavors is the “Dominican Circular Migration: Student-Community Exchange to Serve the Needs of Dominicans”, headed by Marilyn Aguirre-Molina. This program was created in response to the health care challenges presented by circular migration between the Dominican Republic and NYC. These challenges involve issues of continuity of care and providers’ lack of knowledge about social and cultural factors that affect this immigrant group. The program plans to create a learning exchange between public health students here at the MSPH, Department of Population and Family Health and at the School of Public Health of La Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. This exchange will enable students from the Center to study in Santo Domingo and Dominican students to study at Columbia. Students will work with community-based health organizations and acquire skills and experience in serving the health needs of the Dominican communities living in both countries.
Another project involving an exchange component is the Heilbrunn Center’s ongoing partnership with Profamilia’s “Centro de la Salud de los Jovenes”, a clinical reproductive health program initiated in 1999 for adolescents in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Linda Cushman (HCPFH) and Ana Jimenez (family planning clinic) have directed the U.S. component of this partnership, and have implemented several exchanges between HCPFH clinicians, faculty and students and their counterparts at Profamilia. In addition, together with their colleagues at Profamilia, they have conducted a process evaluation of the “El Centro” program. This past summer, “El Centro de Jovenes” also hosted their first MSPH internship student, Paige Trabulsi, a second year pop/fam student in the MPH program, who was supervised by Dr. Cushman.
Linda Cushman is also the U.S. Principal Investigator on another study that is exploring the consequences of circular migration between the Dominican Republic and the US. The project, “Circular Migration among Dominican Adolescents and their Families” is funded by the Mellon Foundation. This qualitative pilot study will explore the health implications for adolescents of frequent moves between Washington Heights and the Dominican Republic. Dr. Frank Caceres, of Profamilia, is the D.R. Principal Investigator, Sally Findley is Senior Advisor to the project, Ana Jimenez will implement the focus groups in the U.S., and Sonia Gonzalez, a first year student and Hispanic Fellow in the Center’s MPH program, is research assistant for the study.
The Heilbrunn Center is very enthusiastic about these collaborative projects that are aimed at making a positive impact on the health of Dominicans in both countries.
New Grants
- Methodology for Applying IRI Climate Forecasts for Local Public Health Interventions
Donor: International Research Institute for Climate Predication, Columbia University
PI: Sally Findley
Amount: $49,961
Period: 2/01/01 - 1/31/0201 - 1/31/02
Description: This seed grant will fund a study testing a survey methodology to provide the basis for integrating climate forecasts with public health interventions in Mali
- Dominican Circular Migration: Student-Community Exchange to Serve the Needs of Dominicans
- Donor: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
PI: Marilyn Aguirre-Molina
Amount: $51,926
Period: 7/1/01 – 6/30/02
Description: To plan and implement an academic and applied learning exchange between the Department of Population and Family Health and the School of Public Health of La Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. The exchange will enable Columbia students to go to SantoDomingo and Dominican students to come to New York with the intention of each learning how to best serve the Dominican population on either side of the air bridge.
- Finding Common Ground in the Era of Welfare Reform
Donor: The Moriah Fund
PI: Wendy Chavkin
Amount: $50,000
Period: 7/1/01-6/30/03
Description: This project will examine the impact of welfare reform on women’s and children’s health and will disseminate the findings at two briefings with medical professionals and advocates.
- Finding Common Ground in the Era of Welfare Reform
Donor: Maternal and Child Health Bureau
PI: Wendy Chavkin
Amount: $223,538
Period: 10/1/01-9/30/02
Description: This grant will fund a study to assess the impact of welfare reform on health care access, utilization and health outcomes in women and children with special health care needs.
- Asthma Solutions Handbook
Donor: Stony Wold-Herbert Fund
PI: Sally Findley
Amount: $10,000
Period: 6/01/01 - 5/31/02
Description: Development and distribution of the of Asthma Solutions Handbook.
- Support of Immunization Special Projects & Activities
Donor: Becton Dickenson
PI: Sally Findley
Amount: $50,000
Period: 9/1/01 – 8/31/02
Description: Faculty and student activity in support of immunization special projects and activities.
- Northern Manhattan Community Voices Asthma Basics for Children (ABC) Initiative
Donor: Center for Disease Control and Prevention- Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project (CAACP)
PI: Sally Findley Amount: $480,315 Period: 9/30/01 – 9/29/03
Description: Through a community collaborative effort ensure that every parent who has a child with asthma living in Northern Manhattan is linked to appropriate asthma care partners and resources to enable families to effectively control the child’s asthma.
- Law and Policy Project- Averting Maternal Death and Disability Collaboration
Donor: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
PI: Lynn Freedman
Amount: $150,000
Period: 1/1/01 – 12/31/03
Description: Development of a human rights approach to the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity.
- Applied Research Component of Reproductive Health Service Delivery to Adolescents
Donor: US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration through the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
PI: Therese McGinn
Amount: $81,056
Period: 3/1/01 - 2/28/02
Description: Collaboration with the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium to provide technical assistance in applied research to field projects providing reproductive health services to adolescents. Specifically, the center is assisting the American Refugee Committee and JSI Research and Training Institute to evaluate the Reproductive Health Literacy Project in Guinea, West Africa, which serves Sierra Leonean and Liberian refugees.
- Partnership in Development Program
Donor: David and Lucile Packard Foundation
PI: Steven Sinding
Amount: $150,000
Period: 9/1/01 – 8/30/02
Description: Support for final year of the New Perspectives on Foreign Aid project to enhance understanding of development cooperation, encourage a well-informed review of present policy, and generate support for increased funding for U.S. official developmental assistance.
- Family Planning in Washington Heights
Donor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
PI: Lorraine Tiezzi
Amount: $450,000
Period: 6/1/01 – 5/31/04
Description: Support of family planning activities in Washington Heights.
- Understanding Access Barriers to Care among Underserved Populations
Donor: Department of Health and Human Services / Office of Population Affairs.
PI: Lorraine Tiezzi & Roger Vaughan
Amount: $750,000
Period: 9/15/01- 9/15/03
Description: To look at barriers to health care among a recent immigrant Hispanic population and Hispanic males.
- Evaluation of the Community Outreach Vehicle Program
Donor: Pfizer, Inc.
PI: Roger Vaughan
Amount: $250,000
Period: 7/01 – 5/02
Description: To determine the effect of the Community Outreach Vehicle (COV) among those who access the COV.
- Preparation for New Initiatives in HIV Prevention and Care
Donor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
PI: Maria Wawer
Amount: $985,100
Period: 9/1/01 – 8/31/02
Description: To support the Rakai Project, Uganda, in order to expand its HIV research and preventive capabilities for future HIV prevention and treatment studies including future studies of male circumcision for HIV control, HIV-malaria interactions and prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
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Publications & Presentations
Presentations
Chavkin, W, Romero, D, Wise, P, Draut T. “Violence, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health Among Poor Women: Relevance Within the Context of Welfare Reform.” Presentation at the third “Trapped by Poverty/Trapped by Abuse” Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 28, 2001.
Chavkin, W. “Unwoven Tapestries: History of the Women’s Health Movement.” Presentation at “Health, Law and Human Rights: Exploring the Connections”. An International Cross-Disciplinary Conference, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Philadelphia, PA, September 29-October 1, 2001.
Comerie-Smith, S., Cohall, A., Johnson, R.L., Soren, K., Havens, J., Lieberman, D. “Workshop on Adolescent Health: Screening for Adolescent Risk Behaviors in the Office Setting.” Conference at Columbia University, New York, NY, October 30, 2001.
Findley, S., Levitt, D., Goodwin, A., Hanus, E., Pagan, G. “Starting early: An asthma management handbook and program for child care providers”. Presentation at APHA, Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2001.
Findley, S., Mejia, M., Feliz, K. “Promotora model for enrolling children of immigrants into health insurance”. Presentation at APHA, Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2001.
Freedman, L.P. “Using Human Rights in Health Programs: From Analysis to Strategy”. Presentation to the Pakistan Medical Association. Karachi, Pakistan. April 23, 2001.
Freedman, L.P. “Safe Motherhood: A Women’s Right” Presentation to the Nepal Society of Obstetrics and Gynocology. Katmandu, Nepal. April 11, 2001.
Freedman, LP. “Emergency Obstetric Care as a Human Right”. Global Health Council, Washington, DC, June 1, 2001.
Freedman, L.P. “Human Rights in Averting Maternal Death and Disability Partnerships” Presentation at the APHA annual meeting. Atlanta, GA, October 22, 2001.
Gill, Z. “Guidelines for Organizing and Managing Emergency Obstetric Care”. Global Health Council, Washington, DC, June 1, 2001.
Gill, Z. Presentation at the Regional review meeting of ROSA UNICEF. June, 2001.
Gill, Z. “Improving Emergency Obstetric Care in Iraq”. Presentation at the Review and Planning Workshop (in collaboration with UNICEF), September, 2001.
Gill, Z. and Sanghvi, H. “Emergency Obstetric Care Curriculum Development Meeting Women’s Right to Life & Health”. Presentation at BRAC Center Inn, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Organized by UNICEF and AMDD, November 4-6, 2001.
Graeff, J.A. “Provider Behavior Change and Involving Partners”. Global Health Council, Washington, DC, May 30, 2001.
Kamara, A. “The RPMM Network: Mobilizing Local Resources”. Global Health Council, Washington, DC, May 30, 2001.
Maine, D. “Maternal Mortality: What to Measure?” . Johns Hopkins evaluation class (Prof. M. Koenig), May 9, 2001.
Maine, D. “Midway Through a Paradigm Shift”. Presentation at the Asian Health Meeting: DFID Health and Population Group, Bangkok, Thailand, May 22, 2001.
Maine, D. “Why work with partners?”. Presentation at the Global Health Council, Washington, DC, May 30, 2001.
Maine, D. “AMDD program: Structure, Strategy & Indicators”. Presentation at CARE, June 2001.
Maine, D. and Bailey, P. “The Next Phase of ‘Safe Motherhood’ & the Role of Mozambique”. Mozambique, October 2001.
Maine, D., Rosenfield, A., Freedman, L.P., Donnay, F., Javet, J.C., Otchere, S. “Averting Maternal Death and Disability: A New Global Program”. Presentation at APHA (Panel), Atlanta, GA, October 22, 2001.
McGinn, T. Moderator,“Improving Reproductive Health Services in Forced Migration Settings”, Global Health Council, June 2001.
McGinn, T. “Informed?? Consent?? Considerations on Carrying Out Research in Forced Migration Settings”. Presentation at Population Council Ebert Reproductive Health Meeting, May 2001.
McGinn, T., Purdin, S., Zantop. “Reflections on University and NGO Partnerships in International Health”. Presentation to Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, April 2001.
Miller, A. “Passing Laws”. Panel Presentation at the “Passing Lines: Immigration and (Homo)sexuality” conference. Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 5, 2001.
Miller, A. “A Human Rights Approach in US Social Justice Advocacy”. Training at Women in International Leadership Development
in preparation for the World Conference against Racism. San Francisco, CA, July 13-15, 2001.
Miller, A. “Legal Aspects of Trafficking” Panel Presentation at the Technical Consultative Meeting on Anti-Trafficking Programs in South Asia convened by Population Council, PATH, and UNIFEM. Katmandu, Nepal, September 11-13.
Purdin, S. “Global Overview of Sexual and Gender-based Violence” at “Interagency Lessons Learned Conference: Prevention and Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Settings”. UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland, March 27, 2001.
Purdin, S. & McGinn, T. “Reproductive Health of Refugees: What do we know?”. EngenderHealth, New York, NY, May 2, 2001.
Purdin, S. “RHR Consortium Monitoring and Evaluation Program”. Global Health Council, Washington, D.C., June, 2001.
Purdin, S. “Reproductive Health in Emergencies”. Presentation at CDC International Emergency Capacity Development Program. Atlanta, GA, August 20, 2001.
Sinding, S., Capitol Hill briefing on the release of the new UNFPA State of the World’s Population Report, “Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental change.” November 9, 2001.
Tiezzi, L., Ureño, M., Valdivieso, E., Gonzalez-van Dommelen, E., Haller, P., Wrobleski, N., Rasoulinejad, S., Bernstein-Lopez, M., Roman, D. “Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Case Management: A Foundation for Health Promotion”. Presentation at APHA, Atlanta, GA, October 21-25, 2001.
Ureño, M. & Gonzalez-Van Dommelen, E., “Integrating Gender Based-Violence Prevention into Middle School Sexuality Education”. Presentation at APHA, Atlanta, GA, October 21-25, 2001.
Vaughan, R. “SmartChart: A web-based MIS system for clinical information processing and reporting”. Presentation at the American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, CA, October, 2001.
Yamin, A. “Salud y Derechos Humanos: Conceptos y Retos” (“Health and Human Rights: Concepts and Aims”). Plenary Presentation
at VII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales y Salud. Santa Clara, Perú. June, 2001.
Yamin, A. “Incorporando una perspectiva de derechos humanos en Programas para reducir la Muerte Materna” (“Incorporating a Human Rights Perspective in Programs to Reduce Maternal Mortality”). Plenary Presentation at Foro Internacional -Reducción de la Mortalidad Materna: Enfoques desde la salud y los derechos humanos. Centro de la Mujer Peruana “Flora Tristan” – Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos. Lima, Perú. July, 2001.
Yamin, A. “Salud y Derechos Humanos: ¿Cómo Entendemos los Lazos?.” (“Health and Human Rights: How do we Understand the Links?”). Presentation at I Seminario Taller de Derechos Humanos en Salud. Círculo de Calidad Etica y Derechos Humanos en Salud. Arequipa, Perú. October, 2001.
Yamin, A. “El Derecho A la Salud: Fundamentación y Balance” (“The Right to Health: Foundations and Current Reality”) Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (Association for Human Rights) Peruvian Medical Association. Lima, Perú. October, 2001.
Publications
Chavkin, W. “Sex, Lies, and Silence: Reproductive Health in a Hostile Environment”. AJPH, 91 (11): 1739-1741, 2001.
Doll, L., Berkelmen, R., Rosenfield, A., Baker, E. “Extramural Prevention Research at the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion.” Public Health Reports, 116, Supplement 1: 10-19, 2001.
Freedman, LP. “Using human rights in maternal mortality programs: from analysis to strategy”. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 75(1): 51-60, October 2001.
Maine, D., Rosenfield, A. “The AMDD program: history, focus and structure.” International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 74 (2): 99-103, 2001.
Maine, D. “How Do Socioeconomic Factors Affect Maternal Mortality?” JAMWA , 56:4, Fall 2001.
Maine, D. “Has Maternal Health Care become too Medicalized?” Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 2, 485-492, 2001.
Margolin, A., Kleber, H., Avants, S.K., Konefal, J., Gawin, F., Stark, E., Sorensen, J., Midkiff, E., Wells, E., Jackson, R., Bullock, M., Culliton, P., Boles, S., Vaughan, R. “The Cocaine Alternative Treatments Study: A multi-site, randomized, controlled trial of acupuncture for the treatment of cocaine addiction”. JAMA. Fall, 2001.
McGinn, T. Participated in: “Baseline Survey Report: HIV/AIDS/STI Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) Survey among commercial sex workers, military and youth in Port Loko, Sierra Leone”, Draft, August 2001.
McGinn, T. Purdin, S., Krause, Jones. “The Effects of Forced Migration on HIV/AIDS/STI Transmission and Policy and Program Responses.” UCSF HIV InSite Knowledge Base, in press.
McGinn, T., Purdin, S. “Introduction: Forced Migration” chapter in Compendium of Indicators for Evaluating Reproductive Health Programs. Measure Evaluation Project, in press.
McGinn, T., Khan, T., Asmatullah. “Study Report: Family Planning Continuation Among Afghan Refugees in Northwest Frontier Province”, Pakistan. August, 2001.
Miller, A. “Uneasy Promises: Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights”. AJPH. 91 (6), June, 2001.
Purdin, S. “Reproductive Health Strategy for Southern Sudan: A Background Paper for the David and Lucile Packard
Foundation”.Romero, D., Chavkin, W., Wise, P.H., Hess, C., VanLandeghem, K. “State welfare reform policies and maternal and child health services: A national study”. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 5(3):199-206. September 2001.
Rosenfield, A. “Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights and Gender Issue.” In Murphy, E. and Ringheim, K. (eds), ReproductiveHealth, Gender and Human Rights: A Dialogue. Washington, DC: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health , pp.9-14, 2001.
Sinding, S., Birdsall, N., Kelley, A. Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World, Oxford University Press, September, 2001.
UNFPA, United Nations Staff College, and Columbia University / AMDD. Distance Learning Courses on Population Issues.“Course 6: Reducing Maternal Deaths: Selecting Priorities, Tracking Progress”. New York, NY, 2001
Waldman,R.J. “Public Health in Times or War and Famine: What can be done? What should be done?” JAMA, 289(5): 588-590, August 1, 2001.
Waldman, R.J., Williams, H.A. “Public Health in Complex Emergencies: Toward a more integrated science”. National Association for the Practicing Anthropologist, 21: 89-115, 2001.
Yamin, A. “Protecting and promoting the right to health in Latin America: Selected experiences from the field.”, Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, 5: (1), 2001.
Yamin, A. Book review of “Safe Motherhood Initiatives: Critical Issues”. In Berer, M. & Sundari, T. (eds.) Women and Health, 31: (4), 2001.
Yamin, A. Conjurando Inequidades: Vigilancia Social del Derecho a la Salud. Lima: Centro de Asesoria Laboral, 2001.
Zabos, G., Northridge, M., Ro, M., Trinh, C., Vaughan, R., Howard, J., Lamster, I., Cohall, A. “Lack of oral health care for adults in Harlem: A hidden crisis.” AJPH. Fall 2001.