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The Center would like to congratulate our colleagues:

**Dr. Bruce Link,PhD, professor of epidemiology, for his recent grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to develop a U.S.-U.K. comparison of discrimination and disparities in health and health service use

**Dr. Ruth Ottman, PhD, professor of epidemiology (in neurology and the Sergievsky Center), for her grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a study titled "Validation of a Standardized Diagnostic Interview for Epilepsy" to evaluate the accuracy of clinical classification of epilepsy

**Dr. David Rosner in the Mailman School of Public Health, has been named a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Dr. Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and History and Co-Director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health. His many publications include: Health Care in America: essays in Social History; Children, Race and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark�s Northside Center; and he recently coauthored Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution.