Jane Menken has agreed to succeed Ronald Lee as the next chair of the Committee on Population (CPOP) of the National Academy of Science, starting in January 1998. Jane is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. Jane will be leaving the U of Pennsylvania next year to head the Sociology Department at the U of Colorado.
Dennis Hogan has been named the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor in Population Studies at Brown U.
Ren Farley completed the New York Marathon with a time of 4:38, 8 minutes more than he had hoped. There's always next year.
Mary Overpeck has been elected Chair of the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the APHA with duties beginning in November 1997. She is interested in communicating with other PAA members working on issues related to injury: Mary_Overpeck@nih.gov
Hallie J. Kintner has been awarded a NSF Visiting Professorship for Women and is spending the 19961997 academic year at the Population Research Center at the U of Texas-Austin. Her research project concerns the careers of General Motors engineers and scientists, including (in collaboration with Teresa A. Sullivan) the influence of graduate education on employee versatility. She was also awarded Presidents' Council Honors by General Motors for the BOMWorkload Model, and is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on applied demography.
Andrew Tianzhuang Liang was born in New York City to Catherine Tian and Zai Liang on June 10, 1996. Andrew weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and measured 21 inches. At 3.5 months, he s already grown two teeth. The proud parents plan to collect physical and sociodemographic information throughout Andrew's life, as part of a longitudinal case study of immigrant second generation born in the 1990s. The duration of the study will largely depend on funding. Results will be updated to interested parties at irregular intervals.
Daniel Alexander Miniot was born July 30, 1996 to Laura Rudkin, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at the U of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and Joe Miniot. Daniel weighed 7 lbs. 8 oz. and was 21 inches long. Big brother Ryan is 5 years old.
Natasha Cabrera recently joined the NICHD as a 19961997 Society for Research on Child Development Fellow, after serving as a study director for a NRC Roundtable on Head Start Research. She recently celebrated the second birthday of her twins, Dakota and Keanu.
Kerry Richter has moved from the Population Research Institute, Penn State U, to take a position as a Research Associate at Child Trends Inc.
Vilna Bashi is doing a one-year post doc at U of Pennsylvania before moving on to Northwestern U next fall as an Assistant Professor in Sociology.
Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni has left the U of Pennsylvania to begin her position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the U of Wisconsin.
Cameron Campbell has moved to UCLA as an assistant professor.
Nancy Moss leaves NIA for sunny California on November 16th to become Deputy Director of the Northern California Cancer Center.
Correction:
Joan Kaufman, whose affiliation was
incorrectly identified in the last issue, is
Reproductive Health Program Officer for
the Ford Foundation. She can be reached by
email: j.kaufman@fordfound.org
JoséLuis Bobadilla Fernandez, of the Inter-American Development Bank, died October 2, 1996 in a plane crash off the coast of Peru. He was 41 years old.
José Luis served as chief of the Health Statistics Department in the Mexican budget and planning agency during and for a short time after his medical studies. From 1984 till 1991 he worked at the Center for Research in Public Health at the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica in Mexico City, first as a researcher and then as Center Director. He was also a professor in the medical faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma. In 1991 he went to the World Bank as Senior Health Specialist, and in March 1996 he joined the InterAmerican Development Bank as Principal Health Specialist.
José Luis had an exceptionally active career as scholar, teacher, and policy advisor. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Quality of Perinatal Medical Care in Mexico City, and for years was one of the leading researchers on the neglected field of perinatal mortality in developing countries. Much of his work dealt with evaluations of the effectiveness of antenatal, obstetric and neonatal health care. He was one of the first to document the harmful effects of inappropriate use of obstetric interventions. With Julio Frenk and other colleagues at the INSP and the World Bank, Jos Luis wrote several important analyses of the epidemiologic transition in Latin America. He was a coauthor of the influential 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health, and in recent years was one of the leaders in both developing and applying new ways to use mortality and disability statistics and costeffectiveness analysis for health planning in developing countries.
José Luis valued professional and public service and was a member and fellow of all sorts of special committees and associations, including the NAS Committee on Population. His early death was mourned by friends he had made among colleagues all over the world, in an astounding number of different institutions and policy and research networks. We particularly remember him as a friend who always steered the discussion toward important topics, never losing sight of the goal of all the research and projects, to make a difference in public health.
He is survived by his wife Patricia and by three children under age fourteen. A memorial service was held in Washington, D.C. on October 28. His colleagues at the IADB have set up a scholarship fund in his name. To contribute to this fund, please contact John Haaga,jhaaga@nas.gov.