|  | | Tulane Professor Earns Prestigious Herbert W. Nickens Award 
| Maureen Lichtveld, professor and chair of environmental health sciences and Freeport McMoRan Chair of Environmental Policy at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is the recipient of the prestigious 2008 Herbert W. Nickens Award.
The award, presented at a meeting of the Intercultural Cancer Council in Washington, D.C., recognizes Lichtveld’s efforts in promoting research in cancer prevention benefiting minorities and the medically underserved. The Herbert Nickens Award honors a physician whose efforts help to bridge the diversity gap in medicine and eliminate health disparities.
Among her many activities, Lichtveld has served since 2003 as chair of the Cancer Workforce Team sponsored by C-Change, a national organization whose mission is eliminating cancer as a public health problem. A main goal of the Cancer Workforce Team is increasing the number of public health professionals trained to deal with an increase of cancer in an aging population.
In pursuit of this goal, Lichtveld has been instrumental in developing memoranda of understanding between Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and other academic institutions in the New Orleans area to increase the number of public health school graduates. These agreements allow students from those institutions to study at Tulane for a year after they complete their bachelor’s degree and earn a master’s degree in public health. Tulane has had a “four-plus-one” arrangement with Xavier University of Louisiana (in New Orleans) for several years, and a similar agreement currently is being completed with Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La.
Lichtveld also holds a leadership position within the Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium (LCRC) as a member of the Scientific Executive Committee and Associate Director and program leader for population sciences at Tulane.
By a wonderful coincidence (or perhaps by inspired planning), Janeen R. Azare, the speaker at the Herbert W. Nickens Award ceremony luncheon, is a graduate of Xavier University who went on to earn a master of science in public health in Lichtveld’s department, Environmental Health Sciences, at Tulane. |
April 11 2008
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