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Wafaa El-Sadr Receives National Medical Association's Scroll of Merit Award
Mailman School of Public Health's Wafaa El-Sadr and Lynn Freedman Named Ambassadors for the Paul G. Rogers Society
The Advisory Council of the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health announced that they have selected Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH '91, and Lynn Freedman, JD, MPH '90, as Ambassadors for the Paul G. Rogers Society. They are among 50 of the nation's foremost global health experts selected for the honor.
The Society was named for former Congressman Paul G. Rogers, a lifelong advocate for better health for all Americans and renowned champion for health research. Ambassadors of the Paul G. Rogers Society are the liaisons to opinion leaders and decision makers who are positioned to influence U.S. investment in global health research.
"Both Wafaa El-Sadr and Lynn Freedman are uniquely qualified to help inform our nation's leaders that greater U.S. investment in global health research will benefit Americans as well as people around the world," said Allan Rosenfield, MD, a member of the Paul G. Rogers Advisory Council.
Dr. El-Sadr is professor of clinical Medicine and Epidemiology and director, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), which supports the rapid expansion of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. ICAP-supported programs are built on a family-focused approach pioneered by the MTCT-Plus Initiative, a program directed by Dr. El-Sadr and established by Dr. Allan Rosenfield, dean of the Mailman School. Dr. El-Sadr is also chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Harlem Hospital Center, where she was instrumental in the development of an internationally recognized HIV/AIDS program. She has led research efforts in the U.S. and internationally in relation to HIV and tuberculosis.
Ms. Freedman is professor of clinical Population and Family Health and director of the Mailman School's Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, which works with governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and international agencies to improve availability, quality and utilization of emergency obstetric care and reduce maternal mortality. Ms. Freedman has been a leading figure in the field of health and human rights, working extensively with women's groups and human rights NGOs internationally. She served as a senior adviser to the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health. Before joining the faculty at Columbia University in 1990, Ms. Freedman worked as a practicing attorney in New York City and then obtained an MPH at the Mailman School.
As Ambassadors, Dr. El-Sadr and Ms. Freedman will work to raise the visibility of global health research through the news media and in meetings with policy makers, opinion leaders and the public. One of their central messages will be to stress the importance of effective collaboration among the nation's government, industry, academic, patient advocacy and philanthropic research sectors.
The Paul G. Rogers Society was established in 2006 by Research!America with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Research!America is the nation's largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority. Founded in 1989, it is supported by 500 member organizations that together represent the voices of more than 125 million Americans. Visit www.researchamerica.org for more information.
Wafaa El-Sadr Receives National Medical Association's Scroll of Merit Award
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, professor of clinical Medicine and Epidemiology and director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs was selected to receive the National Medical Association's (NMA) Scroll of Merit Award, the group's highest honor.
The NMA is an organization of African American physicians founded in 1895. Representing the interests of more than 30,000 African American physicians and the patients they serve, with nearly 112 affiliated societies throughout the nation and U.S. territories, the NMA has been firmly established in a leadership role in medicine.
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