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It was the early 1980s, and I was a young internist in the U.S. Public Health Service. As a full-time practitioner in an underserved community, I regularly saw three and four generations of the same family. The oldest often had end-stage congestive heart failure, while their children were experiencing myocardial infarctions in their mid-40s. Their grandchildren were overweight, and had high levels of cholesterol and high blood pressure. From this intergenerational perspective, I realized that many chronic diseases are a failure of prevention 20 or 30 years earlier. If we could have reached them when they were younger, when there was still time...
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That experience instilled in me the desire to do more than treat people when they're ill. The lesson of prevention—keep people from getting sick or injured in the first place—has guided my career as an internist, an epidemiologist, an academic researcher and now as the dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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In just the last decade, it has been interesting to see the general population experience its own "public health moment" and recognize once again the primary importance of public health interventions. The lessons in recent years have been harsh: emerging infections, anthrax, the flu vaccine debacle and the obesity epidemic. These and many other factors have reinforced for the world at large the value of population-based strategies and prevention. This recognition makes it a great time to be in public health and, even more so, to be at the Bloomberg School.
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As I take over as dean, I am awed by our students' enthusiasm and commitment, our staff's dedication and skills, our faculty's depth and accomplishments, and our alumni's reach and influence.
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So: Great students, great faculty and great facilities—what's a dean to do? My answer: I will strive to make it even better. Certainly all the academic and research components are in place, as is the strong tradition that my predecessors and I inherited from our first dean,
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To meet the public health challenges of the future, we will have to collaborate in unprecedented ways—across departments, centers and institutions. In addition to the issues of global health, we will have to focus on health needs closer to home—the millions in this country who do not have access to health care. We also need to improve the health of the community surrounding our School. To tackle this very difficult issue, we need to partner with our colleagues in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing and in the Johns Hopkins Health System. I look forward to working with all of you—faculty, students, alumni, staff and friends of the School—to achieve these and other goals.
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As this issue went to press on September 1, my first day as dean, Hurricane Katrina's destruction reminded us all of the critical importance of public health infrastructure, preparedness and research. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and our academic colleagues throughout the region. The School is working to provide its expert assistance wherever possible.
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