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Kaiser Family Foundation Announces First Recipient of the Allan Rosenfield Fellowship in Health Policy and Public Health
Shobana Ramachandran, a MPH ’07, is the first recipient of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Allan Rosenfield Fellowship in Health Policy and Public Health. The Fellowship was created to honor Allan Rosenfield, MD, dean of the Mailman School, for his more than 40 years of advancing women’s health, human rights, and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and to help foster a new generation of public health policy professionals. Dr. Rosenfield has served as a Kaiser Family Foundation Board member since 2001.
The Fellowship provides the awardee an opportunity to work on a key health policy or communications project for one year at either Kaiser’s Menlo Park, CA headquarters or Washington, DC office. For the next year, Ms. Ramachandran will work on HIV policy issues with a special emphasis on global HIV/AIDS issues.
Ms. Ramachandran has an undergraduate degree from UCLA and will receive her MPH from the Mailman School’s Department of Epidemiology, where in addition to her studies, she has been involved in research on HIV positive populations and factors influencing breast cancer risk. She also contributed on projects at UNAIDS, the American Red Cross, and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
“Shobana stood out as exceptionally experienced, poised, and insightful,” says Drew E. Altman, PhD, president and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation. “Her global work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic is particularly impressive and fits well with the Foundation’s programs. She will be a tremendous asset as the first Rosenfield Fellow.”
Fellows are nominated on behalf of the Mailman School by a committee under the direction of Sherry Glied, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, and selected by the Kaiser Family Foundation. “I am honored to be involved in this process to select the recipient of the Allan Rosenfield Fellowship in Health Policy and Public Health,” said Dr .Glied. “The caliber of candidates for the fellowship was extraordinary, and I can think of no better way to recognize Allan’s legacy and leadership than to identify the next generation of public health leaders.”
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to providing information and analysis on healthcare issues to policymakers, the media, the healthcare community and the general public.
The Population and Community Development Association in Bangkok Announces First Awardees of the Rosenfield Internship Program
The Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Bangkok, Thailand, has awarded the inaugural Rosenfield Internships to three Mailman School of Public Health students. The Rosenfield Internship Program, which offers fully-funded internships at PDA to selected public health students, honors Dr. Allan Rosenfield, MD, dean of the Mailman School, for his influential and prominent contributions to Thailand’s public health challenges, particularly in the area of family planning and reproductive health.
Yan Epelboym, a student in the School’s Department of Health Policy and Management; Sabrina Lenoir, a duel-degree candidate in Health Policy and Management and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs; and, Nancy Moontasri, in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, have been selected for the internships. Due to the exceptional work of each student, PDA expanded their submission quota from two to three, selecting all nominated Mailman School students to fill the 2007 places for the Rosenfield Internship Program.
Responsibilities will include assisting with community development and income generation projects in Chiang Rai; providing support to Bangkok staff in developing a community-based diabetes care and prevention plan; assisting with the launch of the new Positive Partnerships Program to provide incentives for groups at risk of human trafficking; participating in the development, coordination, and planning of Village Development Partnerships and investigating potential health programs targeted at youth and the elderly which can be integrated into the Village Development Partnership model; and, relationship building and growing the PDA network in partnership with businesses, embassies, and chambers of commerce.
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