Several Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholars have recently received top honors from nationally-recognized media and academic organizations. We congratulate these colleagues on their stellar accomplishments!
Vetta Sanders Thompson has been named The St. Louis American’s 2022 Lifetime Achiever in Health Care. The E. Desmond Lee Professor and Associate Dean of Racial and Ethnic Studies at the Brown School, Sanders Thompson is also co-director of the Institute’s Center for Community Health Partnership & Research and the vice-chair of the Missouri Foundation for Health board of directors. The 22nd Annual St. Louis American Salute to Excellence in Health Care Awards Luncheon is open to all on April 14 at Frontenac Hilton. Call 314-533-8000 for tickets.
The following Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholars have been named in the Stanford University-Elsevier list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in various disciplines worldwide. The list is based on data from Elsevier’s Scopus, a publicly available database of more than 100,000 top scientists and their publications in scholarly journals. Read more in this Brown School article.
Shenyang Guo, Frank J. Bruno Distinguished Professor of Social Work Research
Enola Proctor, Shanti Khinduka Distinguished Professor Emerita; former director of the Center for Dissemination & Implementation at the Institute for Public Health
Ross Brownson, Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor
Vetta Sanders Thompson, E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity; co-director of the Institute’s Center for Community Health Partnership & Research
Douglas Luke, Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy
Nancy Morrow-Howell, Betty Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy; director of the Institute’s Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging
Matthew Kreuter, Kahn Family Professor of Public Health
Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work Research
Ruopeng An, associate professor