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Madelon L. Finkel, Professor of Clinical Public Health, has been named the Director of the Office of International Medical Education (OIME) within Associate Dean Oliver Fein's Office of Affiliations. Dr. Finkel took over new responsibilities from Ms. Joan May, who retired last year. Ms May had given over 25 years of service to Weill Cornell, first as Assistant Dean for Financial Aid and more recently as Coordinator of the OIME. Ms. May was a founding member of the International Health Medical Education Consortium. Ms. May was instrumental in building the international program at Weill Cornell and will remain actively involved in its International Committee, which approves students for international electives and provides them with travel stipends. |
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Jay Kravitz, Assistant Professor at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), was recently appointed to the newly created post of Director of the Global Health Initiative at the University. He stepped down from his faculty position of 11 years as Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency, a post-graduate public health training for physicians. |
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Ron Pust from University of Arizona was on sabbatical in 2004 to 2005 and based at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya assisting the start of the first Kenyan residency in family practice. Hopes are that it will continue to bear little resemblance to a North American FP residency. |
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David Zakus
: : GHEC President: 2005 to 2007
David Zakus, PhD, GHEC's president since the San Francisco Conference in April, 2005, is the Director of the Centre for International Health (CIH) and Associate Professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, both in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In Canada most public health departments are within Faculties of Medicine, making the connection to medicine much stronger and more collaborative.
In addition to managing the CIH, which involves helping to facilitate and support a wide variety of international/global health programs (http://intlhealth.med.utoronto.ca/) and helping to initiate new ones (like the International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation in the Rehabilitation Sciences sector) he is deeply involved in the three strategic programs of the CIH. These include a newly established Field Station in rural Cambodia (near Kampot) for Primary Health Care development, the HIV/AIDS Africa Initiative in nine sub-Saharan countries and a variety of programs in China, including: the development of a General Practice department in the Friendship Hospital with the Beijing Municpal Health Bureau and a training of trainers program for re-skilling 150,000 frontline workers of the State Family Planning Commission with Tsinghua University, also in Beijing; rural health development in Yunnan Province focusing on the new Cooperative Medicine Scheme; and urban/community health reform in Shangai with the city's health bureau and Second Medical University. He has also helped develop training programs at the UofT to which health professionals from China come to about five or six times per year.
David teaches several courses and is active in the development of new graduate and undergraduate programs in global health. He spends much of his time advising students and working with them to develop overseas research and elective programs. He feels he is fortunate to work in a large university environment that is supportive of his work and understands the need for global health input in the training of health professionals, whether they will eventually work in Canada or in the countries targeted by the CIH, those that suffer from severe socio-economic underdevelopment and poor health status.
Among his hobbies, he loves taking pictures and now video of the places he travels to, listening to shortwave radio, cross-country skiing and riding his bicycle.
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