1980s

Anna Smith 82N 85mph was awarded a master’s of science in traditional Oriental medicine in December 2013.

1990s

M. Michelle Berrey 86Ox 88C 92mph is chief medical officer at Chimerix.

Christopher Holliday 92MPH was named director of population health at the American Medical Association.

Lisa Carlson 93MPH was elected chair of the executive board of the American Public Health Association. She is director of academic affairs for Emory’s Department of Surgery.

Chad vandenberg 96MPH is vice president of quality and performance improvement at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

BORN: Mackenna Lee to Steven Trockman 99MPH and Mary Kate Appicelli on June 13, 2013. Trockman was recently named a "Forty Under 40" winner by the Portland Press Herald. He is the director of community relations and outreach at Mid Coast Health Services in Brunswick, Maine.

2000s

BORN: Eli Chaim to Alicia Samuels 01MPH and her husband, Eric Rosenstock, on June 2, 2013. Samuels is director of communication at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

BORN: Nicholas Asher to Brieon Arthur Brandon 98OX 00C 05MPH and her husband, Kenneth 09MBA, on Nov. 11, 2013.

BORN: Isaac to Mary Ann Hall 06MPH and her husband, Spencer, on Jan. 28, 2013.

MARRIED: Paula Martin 99OX 01C 06MPH to John Woodward on Nov. 23, 2013.

Khadija Turay 06MPH received a doctorate from the University of North Carolina and works for Voxiva, which runs the text4baby program.

Marie Chisholm-Burns 07MPH received the 2013 Literature Award for Sustained Contributions from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ Foundation.

Jenelle Mellerson 07MPH has a new position as an epidemiologist in the maternal and child health section of the Georgia Department of Public Health.

Alexis Clements Johnson 08MPH is the associate director of Wellness, Alcohol, and Violence Education and Services at George Mason University in Virginia.

John Hustedt 09MPH was named senior technical officer for the Malaria Consortium in Cambodia.

MARRIED: Victoria McCallum 09MPH and Jared Fisher 09MPH on Oct. 9, 2011, in Austin, Texas. She is a technical writer at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. Fisher is working on his doctorate in environmental epidemiology at the University of Maryland.

Victor Wu 09M/09MPH was named a White House fellow. He was a primary care physician in Kingsport, Tenn.

Sharefa Aria 10MPH is the health informatics manager for the public health department in Tarrant County, Texas.

Fred Grant IV 11MPH is an administrative officer with Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.

Nikita Boston 12MPH is a technical assistance liaison on a fetal alcohol spectrum disorders project at Northrop Grumman.

Alexandra Gemma 12MPH is a project developer for the national office of the Tourette Syndrome Association.

Rebecca Rice 12MPH is the lead author of the Georgia Civic Health Index, the first-ever study of civic involvement in Georgia.

MARRIED: Gabriella Van Schoyck 12MPH to Brian Lockhart on April 12, 2012. She is a writer and project manager at Freedman HealthCare in Boston.

Kirsten Bondalapati 13MPH was selected to participate in Challenge Detroit, a yearlong program focused on attracting and retaining talent in Detroit to spur revitalization.

Saurabh Chavan 13MPH is a data analyst in the division of HIV/AIDS at the University of California at San Francisco medical school.

Amanada Gurin 13MPH is a fellow at the National Cancer Institute’s epidemiology and genomics research program.

Adrienne DeMarais Zertuche 07C 12M/12MPH received the first Junior Fellow Rising Star in Advocacy Award from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). The award recognizes her work with the Georgia Maternal and Infant Health Research Group (GMIHRG), which she founded while earning her MPH at Rollins.

Through its initial research, GMIHRG found that 52% of the areas outside of metro Atlanta have overburdened obstetric providers or no providers at all. During the 2012 Georgia General Assembly, GMIHRG provided each legislator with an "obstetric report card" to provide a snapshot of each district’s delivering physicians and birthing facilities. The lawmakers received the report cards prior to a vote on a bill that prohibited abortions after 20 weeks of gestation without exception and threatened to imprison providers for 10 years for failure to comply. GMIHRG encouraged lawmakers to consider the state’s existing provider shortage before voting on a bill that potentially could compel more physicians to abandon obstetric practice in Georgia. Although the bill passed and became law, the cards helped shape an amendment that made an exception for a medically unviable fetus.

Other public health students who worked with Zertuche are Zoe Julian 14M/15MPH, Elizabeth Smulian 12C 14MPH, Audra Williams 13M/13MPH, and Abigail Yandell 13M/13MPH.

Alumni Deaths

James Cooper 57C 62M 87MPH, of Marietta, Ga., on Nov. 21, 2013. He was 78. He practiced bariatric medicine. He is survived by his wife, Sharon, two daughters, and two granddaughters.

Cynthia Vinion 09MPH, of Smyrna, Ga., on Dec. 20, 2013, of cancer. She was 46. She is survived by her parents, two sisters, three nieces, and one nephew.

Mary Wieczynski Furnivall 97MPH, of Nairobi, Kenya, on March 12, 2014, of cancer. She was 45. After graduating from Rollins, she joined Population Services International to improve health care in Bolivia, Central America, and Kenya. She most recently worked for the USAID in Kenya and other African countries on the issue of HIV/AIDS. She is survived by her husband, David, a son, her parents, and three brothers.