School of Public Health News
Dr. Brown to work with U of T - Jamaica
Director of the Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities Selected for Prestigious Fulbright Fellowship - Diane R. Brown, PhD, executive director of the Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Jamaica for 2008- 09. 
Brown, a Parsippany resident, is one of approximately 1,100 American faculty and professionals who will travel to some 150 countries during the 2009 year under the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. In January, she will begin a research project on cultural influences on health, provide guest lectures, and assist the University of Technology in curriculum development in public health. She will also explore international exchange opportunities for UMDNJ faculty and students.
“I am honored to be a recipient of such a prestigious award,” said Brown. “I am excited about the opportunity to teach abroad and to undertake research on how inequities in health conditions that we see here in the United States are impacted by global public health issues.”
While Fulbright awards are given to individual scholars, the grant is valuable to the recipient’s home campus as well providing an opportunity for international exposure. The Council for International Exchange Scholars has noted that Fulbright scholars internationalize curricula, inspire students to study abroad, draw international students, attract visiting scholars encourage networking and publications, pursue collaborative research grants and establish exchange partnerships with institutions worldwide.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievements as well as leadership in their fields. Dr. Brown joins a distinguished group of five professors from UMDNJ who have won Fulbright awards since 2001.
Media interested in interviewing the award recipients should contact Terri Guess at 973-972-3000.
UMDNJ is the nation's largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,700 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health, on five campuses. Last year, there were more than two million patient visits to UMDNJ facilities and faculty at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a mental health and addiction services network.
Press Release
Date: 11-20-08
Name: Terri Guess
Phone: 973-972-3000
Email: guesstp@umdnj.edu
