Stories for April 1, 1998: Admissions Numbers Disappoint Clark Kerr: Higher Education in Perspective There's Something New Under the Sun at Cal Day '98 Deconstructing the Barbie Myth Selection Process Nears Completion For Regents' Chancellor's Scholars Notes on Barbie History Goes Digital at the Hearst Museum Code Blue Stations Go Online It Pays to Exercise Happy 100th Birthday to Campus Plan Community Relations Projects Benefit Both City and Campus Acknowledging Public Health Heroes A Micro Laser Is on the Horizon Food on the Run Around the Globe New Titles in Order for Christ, Hyatt Fast Facts are Foremost as "Jeopardy!" Comes to Campus Mukansinga Aids Rwandan Survivors Student Callers are Stars in Telephone Fund Raising ASUC, University Agree on bookstore		Acknowledging Public Health Heroes Four Are Recognized for Efforts to Improve Worldwide Human Well-Being posted Apr. 1, 1998 The School of Public Health honored four front-line public health heroes Friday evening, March 13. The second annual celebration of public health heroes took place at the City Club in San Francisco and recognized: Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and author of “The Coming Plague,” Rodrigo Guerrero, former mayor of Cali, Colombia, who at great personal risk confronted Colombia’s notorious drug lords in an effort to stop the violence, Dorothy Rice, professor emeritus of social and behavioral sciences at UCSF, currently advising state governments in their pursuit of damages from the tobacco industry to pay for smoking-related health costs, and Esta Soler, executive director of the San Francisco Family Violence Prevention Fund and a national figure in the campaign to end domestic violence. Organized by the Dean’s Policy Advisory Council, the celebration was hosted by council co-chairs Peter Carpenter and Linda Clever. In his opening remarks, Carpenter explained that the award was established in 1996 to “broaden people’s awareness and understanding of the public health field by publicly recognizing individuals and organizations for their significant contributions and exceptional commitment to promoting and protecting the health of the human population.” This year’s heroes received a Steven Maslach dichroic glass sculpture specially commissioned for the event. Michael Hayes, associate director for external relations in the School of Public Health, said nearly 200 guests attended the dinner. “Faculty and the Dean’s Policy Advisory Council submit nominations for the annual heroes award,” he said. A subcommittee of the council then selects from among the nominees. “The goal is to have a person representing international concerns, one focusing on national public health issues, one representing the regional arena, and one who is associated with an organization,” Hayes said. This year’s honored four join the inaugural heroes: Kritiya Archavanitkul, an assistant professor at Majhidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, whose research addresses the needs of underserved women and children in Southeast Asia; William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led the successful worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox; Stanton Glantz, UCSF professor of medicine, who is credited with exposing the tobacco industry’s 30-year deception of the public about the dangers of cigarette smoking; and Andrea Martin, founder and executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a San Francisco-based organization committed to eradicating breast cancer by supporting state-of-the-art projects in research, education, advocacy and patient care. [ Back to top ]

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