Alumni

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, '95, and Timothy H. Holtz, MPH '89, published the Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Melissa Perry was promoted to Associate Professor of Occupational Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Mark Krushat retired from the U.S. Public Health Service in 2005. He now is a consultant to several organizations and teaches statistics as an adjunct associate professor at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Ping Ki has been working for the past ten years as a consultant in the field of chemical and life sciences in Hong Kong and southern China.

Diane Becker is currently a Professor of Medicine, Director the GeneSTAR Research Program, and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Promotion. In 2008, she received the 2008 Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumni Award. Her work has ranged from community based trials in minority cardiovascular risk reduction, to US federal health policy with a stint in the US Senate working on Medicaid and low income families, and more recently to extended research in the genetics of cardiovascular disease in high risk families. The latter, The Johns Hopkins Sibling and Family Heart Disease Research Program, has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for over 20 years and was the basis for the 1984 ScD with Dr. David Levine, then Director of the Division of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences, now Professor of Medicine.

Stephen Weinstein has founded 'Communications in Behavioral Biology' during his time as an Associate Professor at the Bloomberg School, a journal produced at the APL and published by Academic Press. CBB was the first computer-produced journal and was partially supported by the NSF. Along with two other Hopkins alumni, Henry Felton and Chris Olander, he has launched a website to alter the landscape of the publishing industry for both fiction and non-fiction. NovelMaker.com just won the 2008 American Graphic Design Award for websites. The service is free.

Samuel Yeh retired from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2005 after 42 years of service.

Calvin Zippin, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, was honored as 2009 Person of the Year by B'nai B'rith of Greater San Francisco.