Barr, Greenberg awards presented at 47th Foard Lecture

April 20, 2015

At the 47^th annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture on April 16, the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health announced the winners of two highly prized annual awards.

Janice V. Bowie, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is the 2015 recipient of the Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award.

Sandra L. Martin, PhD, professor and associate chair for research in the Gillings School’s Department of Maternal and Child Health and the School’s associate dean for research, is this year’s winner of the Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award.

The awards were presented preceding the Foard Lecture by Marion Nestle, PhD, titled “Eat, Drink, Vote: The Politics of Food.”

The Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award

Dr. Janice V. Bowie

Bowie earned a Master of Public Health degree in health education from the Gillings School in 1986. After completing a doctorate at the Bloomberg School in 1997, she joined the public health faculty there. Since 2001, she also has served as co-investigator at the Bloomberg School’s Center for Health Disparities Solutions. From 2000 to 2012, Bowie was the Bloomberg School’s co-director of the Kellogg Community Health Scholars postdoctoral program, an initiative that aims to achieve a closer connection between scholars and those engaged in community, policy-making, policy advocacy and practice.

Established in 1975, the Barr Award recognizes the achievements of alumni and their contributions to public health. The award carries the name of its 1980 recipient, the late Harriet Hylton Barr, to honor her contributions to the field. The award recognizes leadership, experimentation, collaboration and innovation within the profession, impact within the practice arena, and outstanding service beyond the requirements of the recipient’s employment.

The Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award

Dr. Sandra L. Martin

Martin completed her doctorate in epidemiology at the Gillings School in 1988. Her research, teaching and public health service have always focused on the health of women and children, with particular attention paid to the role that violence plays in their lives. Martin has studied violence perpetrated upon women during pregnancy and the postpartum period, dating violence, sexual assault and violence in military families. She also has examined the impact of various social services upon survivors of violence, working collaboratively with local, national and international organizations, including the North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission, the World Health Organization and about 100 others.

Dean Barbara K. Rimer, who introduced Martin, also acknowledged Martin’s husband, Larry Kupper, PhD, retired distinguished professor of biostatistics, who won the Greenberg Award 25 years ago.

The Greenberg Award, established in 1986 by the Gillings School’s Alumni Association, honors Dr. Bernard G. Greenberg, founder and chair of biostatistics (1949-1972) and dean of the School (1972-1982). It is given annually to an outstanding full-time faculty member for excellence in teaching, research and service.

The 47^th annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture

Dr. Marion Nestle

Following the awards presentations, Marion Nestle, PhD, Paulette Goddard Professor of nutrition, food studies and public health and professor of sociology at

New York University, delivered the 2015 Foard Lecture.

Nestle’s popular books explore issues including the effects of food production on dietary intake, food safety and access – even in food for pets. All five of her books have earned high acclaim and a number of awards.

From 1986 to 1988, Nestle was senior nutrition policy adviser in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. She has been a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the U.S. Department of Agriculture/DHHS Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and American Cancer Society committees that issue dietary guidelines for cancer prevention.

She has also appeared in documentary films, including SuperSize Me! (2004), A Place at the Table (2013) and Fed Up (2014).

The Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture was established in 1969 by Elsie D. Foard to honor her late husband, whose work in public health spanned more than a half-century, much of it with the U.S. Public Health Service.