ANN ARBOR—Susan C. Scrimshaw, an anthropologist whose work focuses on Hispanic and African-American public health issues, is slated to speak at the University of Michigan School of Public Health convocation April 27.

Scrimshaw is dean of the School of Public Heath and professor of community health sciences and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She became chair of the Association of Schools of Public Health in January, and is past president of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science, which advocates for scientific collaboration between the two countries.

In addition, she is a member of the Centers for Disease Control task force on community preventative services. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, chairing the Institute panel on health communication for behavior change, and the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1991, she was named “Faculty of the Year” by the UCLA Public Health Minority Alumni Association, Standing Committee on Minority Affairs and Health Careers Opportunity Program.

She received her bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies and anthropology from Barnard College, then earned both her master’s and Ph.D. from Columbia University, focusing on Latin America, medical anthropology and demography.

For more information about Scrimshaw and her work at UIC, visit http://www.uic.edu/depts/spha/about/dean/index.html

Convocation for master’s and doctoral degree students of the School of Public Health is planned for 7:30 p.m. April 27 in Rackham Auditorium on the U-M’s Central Campus.

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