Claremont Graduate University appear the accumulation of the School of Community and Global Health (www.cgu.edu/scgh), the ninth academy in the university. The affairs will abode twenty-first aeon threats such as accelerated accouterment in all-around populations, as able-bodied as spikes in preventable health-related problems. Faculty has accustomed in Claremont, and classes will activate in spring, 2009.
Researchers will focus primarily on the decreases in bloom and abundance that aftereffect from affairs choices, including obesity, diabetes, and diseases accompanying to tobacco, alcohol, and biologic abuse. This well-published aggregation of experts will advance recommendable bloom behavior to ambition specific communities, while announcement action changes and accouterment in behavior.
“This is a arresting befalling for CGU to accommodate administration in alum apprenticeship and crop on some of the a lot of important problems adverse our arena and our world,” said CGU President Robert Klitgaard.
The new academy is strategically accumbent with the university’s acclaimed transdisciplinary class and analysis focus. It will actualize important synergies with abounding analysis activities at CGU, and actualize new partnerships aural the university, abnormally with its Schools of Information Systems and Technology, Politics and Economics, Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, and its Drucker School of Management.
While commonly adamant health-related issues remain, arising trends are aswell looming: Climate change, accouterment in wealth, and an access in brainy diseases.
CGU will action a Masters in Public Health and a PhD in Areas of Prevention Science and Health Promotion. Additionally, classes and analysis opportunities will be accessible to acceptance from all eight schools in the university and to those at the 5 undergraduate Claremont Colleges and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. Many CGU graduates are accepted to access fields in academic, government, and NGOs such as the Center of Disease Control and assorted bloom ministries.
According to the new Dean, Professor C. Anderson Johnson, the United States spends added than any added nation on bloom affliction ($2.2 trillion), but is 45th in acknowledgment on investment.
“Our ultimate ambition is to actualize a abundant ambiance to assemble the top minds and assorted leaders from the sciences, accessible health, government, business, noncombatant society, and the association to appoint in artistic analytic dialogues arch to new innovations in health, wellbeing, and above of life,” Johnson said. “We accept a new eyes of how to abstraction and appulse the bloom of the boilerplate aborigine about the world. It crosses boundaries and challenges the way things accept been looked at in the accomplished to appear up with new solutions to old problems and to accouterment arch on arising issues at a time of aberrant all-around growth.”
The new full-time adroitness associates are a allotment of the a lot of cited in the across of community, all-around and accessible bloom issues. They are Susan Ames, Darleen Schuster, Alan Stacy, Dennis Trinidad, Jennifer Unger and Kim Reynolds.
SCGH axle associates cover Jonathan Fielding, Director of the Los Angeles Department of Public Health; Alexandra Levine, Chief Medical Officer for City of Hope; Liming Lee, founding Director of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and J. Mario Molina, President and CEO of Molina Healthcare, Inc.
About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top alum schools in the country. Our nine bookish schools conduct leading-edge analysis and accolade masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor calmly defined, assorted adroitness and acceptance analysis and abstraction above the acceptable conduct boundaries to actualize new and applied solutions for the above problems afflictive our world. An absolute academy adherent absolutely to alum analysis and study, CGU sits on a 19-acre campus.
Contact:
Nikolaos Johnson
Claremont Graduate University
165 E. Tenth St.
Claremont, California 91711
909-621-8396
nikolaos.johnson@cgu.edu http://www.cgu.edu
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