speakers
keynote speaker Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH Associate Professor, Epidemiology Department School of Public Health University of Michigan “The New Normal: The Context for Public Health” Dr Galea is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He was formerly Associate Director of the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine and Assistant Professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Dr Galea is primarily interested in the social and economic production of health, particularly mental health and behavior in urban settings. He has an abiding interest in the social and health consequences of collectively experienced traumatic events. His work includes basic epidemiologic research, theoretic development, and the application of innovative methods to epidemiologic problems. Dr Galea has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and more than 25 chapters and commentaries. His work has been primarily published in medical and public health journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, and The Lancet. Dr Galea has edited 3 books including Cities and the Health of the Public and Methods for Disaster Mental Heath Research. He has received a number of grants for research from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others. Dr Galea is an elected member of the American College of Epidemiology and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Royal Institute of Public Health. Dr Galea did his graduate training at the University of Toronto Medical School, at the Harvard University School of Public Health, and at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He is board certified in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine and is a licensed physician in Michigan, New York State, and Ontario. He has worked as a clinician in several remote rural communities including Galkayo, Somalia, Geraldton, Canada, and Ialibu, Papua New Guinea. Dr Galea's work has been featured by several media outlets including The New York Times and NBC Dateline among others. He was named one of TIME magazine’s epidemiology “innovators” in 2006. speaker Sally Flanagan Director of NJMRC “Getting to Know The New Jersey Medical Reserve Corp.” responders to keynote address John Beckley, MPH Health Officer, Hunterdon County Health Department, Flemington, NJ Manages public health programs for rural county of 123,000 citizens, with 26 municipalities. Emphasis on public health infrastructure. Leah Ziskin, MD, MS Adjunct Associate Professor, UMDNJ-School of Public Health Former Associate Dean, SPH, Stratford Campus and Deputy Commissioner of Public Health, NJ DHSS Barbara Montana, MD, MPH Medical Director, Division of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, NJ DHSS Areas of Interest and Expertise: Infectious agents of bioterrorism, blood-borne pathogens, hospital infection control, hepatitis, HIV infection, isolation and quarantine. Responses will be followed by the audience participating in Questions and Answers