Mark Crenshaw, Assistant Director of the Center for Leadership in Disability, has been elected to serve as a member-at-large on the Association of University Centers on Disabilities board. AUCD is a membership organization that supports and promotes a national network of university-based interdisciplinary programs.

Kimberley Freire, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, delivered a Currents of Public Health webinar titled, “Use It or Lose It: The Power of Utilization-Focused Evaluation to Move Data to Action.” VIEW RECORDING

Emily Graybill, Director of the Center for Leadership in Disability and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, was selected by the Association of University Centers on Disabilities and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the CDC to represent Georgia as a Children’s Mental Health Champion for the 2022-2023 cycle.

Ashli Owen-Smith, Associate Professor of in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, was featured in a Georgia State Research Magazine story on the Prevention Research Center.

Terri Pigott, Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, received the Leonard E. Gibbs Award from the Campbell Collaboration’s Social Welfare Coordinating Group for a paper in Campbell Systematic Reviews that she co-authored titled “Multisystemic Therapy® for social, emotional, and behavioural problems in youth age 10 to 17: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.”

Two School of Public Health faculty members participated in a Great American Smokeout webinar hosted by Employee Development and Wellness Services titled, “All the Things You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask: A Conversation about Vapes, Tobacco, Exploitation, Stress and Social Justice.”

• Lucy Popova, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences; and
• Claire Spears, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences

Susie Ramisetty-Mikler, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, participated in a November symposium and panel discussion webinar hosted by Al Muthanna University in Baghdad, Iraq titled “Public Health Surveillance: Who Needs it and Who is Responsible.”

Christine Stauber, Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, gave a talk on her career to a lunch session at the Water and Health Conference at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in October.

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