Ann Anderson

Professor Emerita

Ann Anderson

Education & Affiliations

PhD, microbiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center
MS, microbiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center

Biography

Dr. Ann Anderson is professor emerita in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. She served as a liaison with the health departments in four states to facilitate public health practice initiatives. In 1995, she developed the South Central Public Health Leadership Institute with the departments of health in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. She also developed an Advanced Institute in Crisis Leadership with the same states.

Anderson also directed the South Central Public Health Training Center, funded by HRSA, which began in 2000 and is ongoing. Training center partners included the four states' health departments and the University of Alabama, Birmingham, School of Public Health.  She  also developed an executive MPH program with the University of Arkansas for medical sciences. The Tulane degree program began in Little Rock in the fall of 1995 and graduated its final students as Arkansas transitioned to its new College of Public Health.

Anderson was responsible for the planning and development of an undergraduate program in public health (BSPH) at Tulane, which was approved by the Tulane Board of Administrators in 2003. The program is accepting its first students in 2005/2006.Educational Background:

Research Areas

  • Public health practice
  • Education training programs
  • Education of public health professionals

Honors & Awards

  • Service Award, Association of Schools of Public health, 2002
  • Champion of Public Health, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2002
  • Invited Participant Public Health Leadership Institute, 1998
  • Presidential Citation, National Environmental Health Association, 1988
  • Honorary Member of the Teaching Faculty, Universidad de San Pedro Sula, San Pedro, Honduras, 1992
  • Presidential Citation, National Environmental Health Association, 1990
  • Invited Participant, Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Degradation, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, 1979.
  • Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society, 1977-date
  • Delta Omega Public Health National Honor Society, 1977-date

Publications

View Dr. Anderson's publication on NCBI