Brian P. Leaderer, M.P.H., Ph.D., Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D., Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D., Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D., Tongzhang Zheng, Sc.D.

The following appointments have been made at the School of Public Health: Brian P. Leaderer, M.P.H. ’71, Ph.D. ’75, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (environmental health), was appointed vice chair and deputy dean. His main responsibilities in this position will include overseeing the M.P.H. program curriculum and other departmental master’s-degree programs, and developing and coordinating interdivisional research and training programs at EPH. Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D. ’73, professor of public health (biostatistics), and professor of statistics, has been appointed the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. Holford, who specializes in the development and application of statistical methods in public health and medicine, has focused his research on how trends in cancer epidemiology are described. Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology (microbiology), will serve as the head of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Division. Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D. ’68, associate professor of epidemiology, microbiology and immunobiology, and director of graduate studies in epidemiology and public health, was named the John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. Ruddle is known for her discovery and analysis of lymphotoxin, a protein produced by T cells that AIDS in protecting the immune system and destroying tumor cells. Tongzhang Zheng, Sc.D., associate professor of epidemiology (environmental health), will serve as the head of the Environmental Health Sciences Division.