School Announces 2007 Calderone Junior Faculty Prize Recipients

The Calderone Junior Faculty Research Prize recognizes junior faculty members at the Mailman School for their critical research with long-term implications throughout the School’s departments and disciplines.

Supported by a generous endowment established by the Calderone family in 1986, the prize honors Frank Calderone and marks his distinguished career and life-long commitment to the health of the public. The prize offers funding to junior faculty for critical research with long-term implications throughout the School’s departments and disciplines.

The following researchers have been selected to receive Calderone Junior Faculty Research Prizes in 2007:

• David Bell, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Population and Family Health, to examine “The Influence of Male Partners’ Attitudes and Relationship Characteristics on Female Partners’ Continuation of Contraceptive Use”

• Janice Cooper, PhD, associate research scientist, National Center for Children in Poverty, to conduct a “Special Study on States’ Knowledge and Practices for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Children’s Mental Health”

• Mary Gamble, PhD, assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences, to look at “Folic Acid and Creatine Supplementation as Therapeutic Approaches for Lowering Blood Arsenic”

• Mari Milleri, PhD, associate research scientist in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, to conduct a “Pilot Study of Adolescents’ Health Information Seeking on the Internet”

• Ying Wei, PhD, assistant professor of Biostatistics, to conduct “Quantile Regression with Errors-in-variables and Its Applications in Public Health Study.”

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