In fond memory of our good friend and colleague, I’m posting¬†the faked pulp mystery book cover I created several years ago. I initially did this as a quick way to tease the venerable professor about his recently unveiled, and¬†somewhat melodramatic, official department portrait (included after the jump).
I had this vision of him as a sort of Cinema Noir public health detective (a la Sydney Greenstreet). Dr Berg was so tickled by the whole thing I ended up giving him a framed copy and several duplicates for family and friends.

These are some of the photos I took around the island of Carriacou during the second phase of the Grenada Heart Survey. Carriacou – whose name means “Land of Reefs” in Carib – is the largest of Grenada’s two sister islands.

This is a small selection of photos from the “Images of Tibet” exhibition recently on display (January at the University of Rochester School of Medicine’s Miner Library. As the show’s curator I had the difficult but pleasurable job of pouring over and editing the numerous images generated by the Tsampa team during their time in Tibet.
I have limited the resolution of the attached photos as a concession to the photographers (credited below). Sadly, the displayed size doesn’t do justice to the quality and crispness of the original 4′-wide images.

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Here are a few photos I took of Petite Martinique during one of the pilot phases of the Grenada Heart Study. Petite Martinique is the smallest and least populated (~300 people) of the three main islands which constitute the Caribbean nation of Grenada.

This is a poster I designed to summarize initial results from the TSAMPA project (Tibet Supplements and Micronutrients in Pregnancy Assessment) for the CDC Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in Beijing, China.

This is a series of photos taken by myself and Joseph Guido during a recent telemedicine planning trip to Costa Rica. Despite having spent several years working on material, training, and analysis for the LINCOS project (Little Intelligent Communities) this was the first time I got to see an operating Lincos container. It was also a great opportunity to touch base with the Division of Public Health’s former informatics (Infocomm) post-doctoral students.

This is the abstract for “Smoking Culture at Antarctica‚Äôs McMurdo Station”, a poster I recently presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) annual conference in Dallas, Texas. This research was an outgrowth of the work I did on the ‚ÄúCulture and Health in Antarctica‚Äù project with Tim Dye, Ann Dozier, Nancy Chin, Peter Fleming, and Kathryn Donhauser.

I developed this site as the public portal for the MATRICHS (Multidisciplinary Analytic Training for Reproductive, Infant, and Child Health Services) web-based training program (summarized here). While the course modules themselves reside on the University of Rochester’s Blackboard‚Ñ¢ system, this site provides a public link into the course, program information, and online registration forms for applicant teams.

This is a poster I put together to summarize results from the EC-ASAP project (Emergency Contraception – After Sex to Avoid Pregnancy) for the Association of Reproductive Health Practitioners (ARHP) conference in La Hoya, CA.

Overview
MATRICHS (Multidisciplinary Analytic Training for Reproductive, Infant, and Child Health Services) is a nine-month, internet-based, analytic training program for state agency teams working with reproductive, maternal, infant, and child health services. Multidisciplinary teams work independently (~4 hrs/wk) on a series of seven online course modules and collaboratively on a project addressing a policy issue facing their agency/community.