Women in Leadership Panel
Wednesday April 3, 2013
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Sheldon Hall (W1214)
Reception immediately following in Gallery
Sponsored by the Career Services Office and the Office of Alumni Relations
PROGRAM
Welcome ………………………………………………………….Betty H. Addison, M.S.
Senior Director, Student Life Services
Discussion………………………………………………………………….…Panel Members
The purpose of this event is to deliver an innovative program that connects,
informs, and inspires you to utilize your skills as a public health practitioner to
become a leader in your field. In addition, it will expose aspiring women to female
role models in the health professions, as well as foster the expansion of your
network in the public health arena.
Today’s panelists are all alumnae of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, and have worked hard to achieve their current status. They will share
their career progression (what brought them to where they are now), tips for
success/pointers for leadership roles (interpersonal relationships/networking,
how to maintain in a leadership position), and the advantages and disadvantages
of being a woman in a leadership role.
* Open Forum following Panel Discussion *
Marilyn Crumpton, MD, MPH
Email: [email protected]
Marilyn Elizabeth Crumpton, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician who serves as
director for Growing Well Cincinnati, the school health collaborative
working with community partners to increase health & wellness services
as part of the Community Learning Centers for CPS. She also serves as
medical director for the Division of School & Adolescent Health at
Cincinnati Health Department, including medical consultant for Cincinnati
Public Schools (CPS). The division provides services at eight school based
health centers and provides 26 public health nurses serving fulltime as school nurses for Cincinnati Public
Schools. Prior to moving to Cincinnati, Dr. Crumpton served as associate medical director at the Alabama
Medicaid Agency, director of maternal and child health at the Anne Arundel County Department of Health in
Annapolis, Maryland, and Houston County Health Officer in Dothan, Alabama with the Alabama Department
of Public Health. Dr. Crumpton received her undergraduate degree at Birmingham Southern College, her
medical degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Medicine and a master of public
health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her internship and
residency program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Crumpton is certified by the American
Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is Past President of the Ohio
School Based Health Care Association and the Alabama Public Health Association.
Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH
Email: [email protected]
Ruth R. Faden, PhD, MPH, is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of
Biomedical Ethics and founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman
Institute. Dr. Faden is the author and editor of many books and articles on
biomedical ethics and health policy including Social Justice: The Moral
Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (with Madison Powers), A
History and Theory of Informed Consent (with Tom L. Beauchamp), AIDS,
Women and the Next Generation (Ruth Faden, Gail Geller and Madison
Powers, eds.), and HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives
(Ruth Faden and Nancy Kass, eds.). Dr. Faden is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the
Hastings Center and the American Psychological Association. She has served on numerous national advisory
committees and commissions, including President Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Experiments, which she chaired. Dr. Faden is a co-founder of the Hinxton Group, a global community
committed to advancing ethical and policy challenges in stem cell science, and the Second Wave project, an
effort to ensure that the health interests of pregnant women are fairly represented in biomedical research
and drug and device policies. In 2011, Dr. Faden was the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research
(PRIMR). Dr. Faden’s current research focuses on justice theory and on national and global challenges in
learning health care systems, health systems design and priority setting, and access to the benefits of global
investments in biomedical research. Dr. Faden also works on ethical challenges in biomedical science and in
women’s health.
Sherry Mills, MD, MPH
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Mills received her undergraduate degree in human biology from Brown
University. She matriculated at the University of Cincinnati, College of
Medicine and completed a Preventive Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health where she also received a Masters degree
in Public Health in epidemiology. She completed post graduate training as an
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. As an EIS Officer, she was posted at the Office on Smoking and Health and thus began her
career as a medical epidemiologist in chronic disease prevention. In 1991, she joined the National Cancer
Institute in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (later the Division of Cancer Control and Population
Sciences) where she held several extramural program leadership roles. In 2000, Dr. Mills left federal service
and joined Abt Associates, a Cambridge-based consulting firm, where she was the Managing Vice President for
Public Health Applications and Research. In 2005, Dr. Mills rejoined the National Institutes of Health in the
Office of Extramural Research (OER). Initially as the senior advisor to the Deputy Director of OER and in 2009
she was named the Director of the Office of Extramural Programs (OEP) in OER. Dr. Mills has been recognized
with many awards both within government and the private sector for her outstanding contributions to public
health interventions, public health policy, mentorship and outreach. She has received 8 NIH Director’s awards,
10 PHS Special Achievement Awards. She recently has been selected as a mentor for the Brookings InstituteWashington University in St. Louis partnership, Women’s Strategies in Leadership.
Linda Nebeling, PhD, MPH, RD
Email: [email protected]
Linda Nebeling, Ph.D., MPH, RD, FADA is the Chief of the Health Behaviors Research
Branch, in the Behavioral Research Program (BRP), in the Division of Cancer Control
and Population Sciences (DCCPS), National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Lead
Scientific Program Director for the Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and
Cancer (TREC) Centers initiatives (2005 – 2010; 2011 – 2016). Previously, she served
as the Acting Associate Director of the BRP, DCCPS, and a Public Health Nutritionist
in NCI’s National 5 A Day for Better Health Program. Dr. Nebeling has completed a
post-doctoral fellowship with NCI’s Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. She
received her Ph.D. in Nutrition from Case Western Reserve University, an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, a BS in Nutrition from Michigan State University, and a MS in Human Nutrition from
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a graduate of the Dietetic Internship Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center, New York. Past experience includes serving as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Nutrition,
Case Western Reserve University, OH, and as a Clinical Dietitian at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY. In
2001, she was awarded the status of Fellow by the American Dietetic Association (FADA) now called the Academy of
Nutrition and Dietetics. Her research has focused on the relationship between dietary behaviors in different
population groups, especially for fruit and vegetable consumption, and the risk of cancer and other chronic
diseases. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, co-edited a textbook, and is a reviewer for many
professional journals. She has received 7 separate NCI Merit Awards for exemplary contributions in the field of
nutrition and health promotion. In 2011, she received the NIH Directors award for her efforts with the National
Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), the NIH Merit Award for her leadership on TREC, and the
NCI Outstanding Mentor Award to acknowledge exemplary mentoring and guidance of trainees in cancer research.
Dipti Shah, MPH
Email: [email protected]
Dipti Shah is the Chief of the Office of Immigrant Health and State Refugee Health
Coordinator at the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DHMH) in
Baltimore, MD. In this role, Ms. Shah is responsible for overseeing the state's
refugee and migrant health programs, including the management of all refugee
health funding and data, development of screening guidelines, ensuring
the provision of health services to newly arrived refugees and asylees, and
building partnerships and facilitating collaborations with other refugee service
providers. She also serves as the Course Co-Director and Founder of the Public Health Applications for Student
Experience (PHASE) Internship Program, which is currently in its 10th year. Prior to her work at DHMH, Ms. Shah
served as the Senior Project Manager at a non-profit organization in Washington, DC working in tuberculosis
policy and advocacy. She also worked in Guatemala developing culturally-relevant public health education
campaigns related to hygiene and vector control. Ms. Shah earned her graduate degree in infectious disease
epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also holds a faculty
appointment, and her undergraduate degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of
Wisconsin. She currently serves on several national workgroups including the National Security Staff Refugee
Resettlement Stakeholder Group and the Office of Refugee Resettlement Affordable Care Act Workgroup. She
has been a member of the National Association of Refugee Health Coordinators (ARHC) Executive Board since
2009, was the Vice-Chair in 2010 and 2011, and the Chair in 2012.
Liza Solomon, DrPH, MHS
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Solomon has over twenty years of extensive experience in policy
research, development and assessment, and program design and execution.
Her experience includes developing and implementing innovative
healthcare programs of demonstrated effectiveness. Dr. Solomon served for
nine years in a senior policy and management position in state government
as Director of the AIDS Administration for the Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), and seven years conducting
epidemiological studies as a member of the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Solomon has supervised large professional staffs and managed multimillion dollar budgets. In her work at
Johns Hopkins, Dr. Solomon conducted research on the natural history of HIV/AIDS. At Abt, Dr. Solomon
currently directs several HIV projects, these include a CDC funded study designed to identify undiagnosed HIV
positive men who have sex with men (MSM) and link them to care; a SAMHSA funded study designed to
evaluate integrated systems of care for behavioral health, substance abuse and HIV care in the 11 cities most
heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS; and studies assessing linkage to care for HIV positive individuals released from
jail and prison.
Amy Ong Tsui, PhD, MA
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Tsui is a Professor in the Department of Population, Family and
Reproductive Health and serves as Director, Bill and Melinda Gates
Institute since 2002. Before joining Johns Hopkins in January 2002,
Amy Tsui was Director of the Carolina Population Center and
Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was Director of The EVALUATION Project
(1991-1996) and MEASURE Evaluation (1997-1999), both global USAID-funded projects intended to build
capacity in and advance monitoring and evaluation (M&E) methods in developing countries. As director of
the GI, she lead the organization of the 2009 Kampala and 2011 Dakar International Family Planning
Conferences and currently is liaising with the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the Africa Union
Commission, and other international partners, on an evidence-based initiative to increase investments in
maternal and child health in order for the African continent to realize the Demographic Dividend. Tsui
maintains an active research agenda, overseeing the partners' Family Health and Wealth Study and
publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Professor Tsui is a Fellow to the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
The Career Services Office and the Office of Alumni Relations
would like to thank Our panelists for giving
of their time and knowledge for this evening’s event!
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