Horney and MacDonald publish article on School's hurricane response
| February 26, 2007 | |
Photograph of Dr. Pia MacDonald
“Academic Public Health Community Responds to Hurricanes: A History of the North Carolina School of Public Health Response and New Infrastructure, 1999-2006,” authored by Jennifer A. Horney, MA, MPH, and Pia D.M. MacDonald, PhD, MPH, has been published in the March-April 2007 Public Health Reports. The article focuses on ways in which the North Carolina Institute for Public Health and Team Epi-Aid have contributed to improved efficiency and coordination of the School’s response to hurricanes. Team Epi-Aid is a volunteer organization at the School that provides students with valuable field experience while assisting state and local health departments during public health emergencies. MacDonald is a research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Horney is an epidemiology doctoral student.
For more information, contact Ramona DuBose, director of communications for the UNC School of Public Health, by telephone at 919-966-7467 or by email at ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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