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11/18/09 FACES featured in KCBS documentary: AIDS In Africa: Faces of Hope
Craig Cohen, MD, MPH, M. Catherine Maternowska, PhD, MPH, and the Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) Program featured in AIDS In Africa: Faces of Hope (KCBS, 11/18/09). FACES is an HIV/AIDS care and treatment program in Western Kenya and Nairobi. The 22-minute radio documentary is available online here.
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09/23/09 Dr. Claire Brindis on the federal health care reform efforts

Claire Brindis, DrPH, MPH, discusses the nuances of health care policy and reform in "Policy Expert Brindis Takes the Pulse of Health Care Reform Efforts" (UCSF Today, 9/23/09).

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08/18/09 Dr. M. Catherine Maternowska in The New York Times
M. Catherine Maternowska, PhD, MPH, discusses her experience in Swaziland in "Truck-Stop Girls" (The New York Times, 8/18/09) in a special issue of The New York Times Magazine titled "Saving the World's Women."
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07/07/09 J. Joseph Speidel, MD, MPH, to receive Allan Rosenfield Award for Lifetime Contributions to International Family Planning

Dr. J. Joseph Speidel will be awarded the Allan Rosenfield Award for Lifetime Contributions to International Family Planning. The Society of Family Planning gives this annual award to individuals who have made invaluable contributions to the health of women worldwide. Dr. Speidel will receive this award at Reproductive Health 2009 in September.

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06/10/09 Claire Brindis, DrPH, MPH, appointed as director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
After serving as the acting and interim director, Dr. Claire Brindis is appointed director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. For more information, please see the UCSF Today announcement. Congratulations, Dr. Brindis!
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