Faculty and staff in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education are settling in on the first and second floors of the new Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing building next door. Several RSPH departments are using the high-tech classrooms there as well, and nursing faculty and students are using our space in the American Cancer Society building and 1525 Clifton Road. Victoria Phillips, associate professor of Health Policy and Management, was recently named the Associate Director for Health Services Research for the new Emory Center for Health in Aging. Vicki Hertzberg, chair of Biostatistics, and Arthur Kellermann, director of the RSPH Center for Injury Control, both received awards from the American Public Health Association last fall. Vicki received the APHA Statistics Section Award, and Art received the Excellence in Science Award from the APHA Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section.
Students take on gun violence.
Students in the Emory chapter of the Georgia Public Health Association, now in its second year of existence, gathered more than 600 signatures last fall to petition Governor Roy Barnes to support a bill aimed to keep handguns away from children. The bill, which passed in the Senate last year but died in the House, would have made allowing a minor access to a gun a misdemeanor. The students hope legislators will take up gun control issues again during the new legislative session. Kathy Miner's Program Evaluation class recently evaluated Atlanta's Prejudice Awareness Summit 2000. This watershed event brought more than 300 local middle school students together to confront the tough issues surrounding prejudice and intolerance.