Jennifer Pinto-Martin: Interim Executive Director of CPHI |
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October 2, 2012,
Volume 59, No. 06 |
Senior Vice Provost for Research Steven Fluharty is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Pinto-Martin as interim executive director of the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI).
Dr. Pinto-Martin is the Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing and chair of the department of biobehavioral health sciences in the School of Nursing, with a secondary appointment in the department of biostatistics and epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine. She is also a senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, and director of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE), one of six such Centers funded by the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to understand the causes of autism and the reasons for its recent increase in prevalence nationwide.
The CPHI is a University-wide center that promotes interdisciplinary research, education, and practice in public health. It also acts as the organizational home and academic base for Penn’s multi-disciplinary, inter-School Master in Public Health (MPH) degree program. Dr. Pinto-Martin has been integrally involved with the CPHI since its founding. She has served as the director of the MPH Program since 2007, during which time it has grown from 20 to 100 MPH degree and certificate students. In this role, she has worked to develop the program’s interdisciplinary signature, drawing faculty and students from across Penn’s campus and developing dual degrees with the Schools of Dental Medicine, Design, Law, Nursing, Medicine, and Social Policy and Practice.
Dr. Pinto-Martin succeeds Dr. Marjorie Bowman, founding director of the CPHI, who became dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University on October 1, 2012. A search for the permanent executive director of the CPHI will begin in the next few weeks. |