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Brookline Health Department Recognizes BU Dean Of Public Health
Brookline Public Health honored Brookline resident, Sandro Galea, dean of Boston University School of Public Health recently.
From BPH: Brookline resident and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) Dean, Sandro Galea, MD, PH, was awarded the Alan Balsam Public Health Leadership Award by the Friends of Brookline Public Health (FPH) on April 4, 2019, during National Public Health Week activities in Brookline.
The award is presented to a Brookline resident for outstanding leadership in public health both at the local and national level. Dean Galea received the award at the Coolidge Corner School in Brookline prior to his talk: “How the Trump Administration is Shaping Your Health.”
Prior to coming to BUSPH in January, 2015, Dean Galea was Gelman Professor and Chair of the
Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at the University of Michigan and at the New York Academy of Medicine, and received degrees from Columbia and Harvard University.
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Dean Galea has published more than 800 scientific journal articles, 50 book chapters, and 13 books. His forthcoming book, Well: what we need to talk about when we talk about health, will be published by Oxford University Press in May 2019.
The Friends of Brookline Public Health (FPH), a non-profit organization, was formed in 1999 by
J. Jacques Carter MD, MPH (Chair, Brookline Advisory Council of Public Health) and Alan
Balsam PhD, MPH (Director, Brookline Public Health and Human Services).
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The goals of the organization are to build a constituency and advocate for public health at the local level, educate the community about public health, secure grants and other donations, and provide seed funding for worthy local public health projects.
To date, FPH include 160 individual members and 10 corporate members, the former paying $25/year and the latter paying $100/year to join. Most members are public health and medical practitioners who live and/or work in Brookline. The Friends of Public Health also holds annual public health forum moderated by Former Governor Dukakis.
Awards and mini grants are given out during this meeting.
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