FUNDING

• Snyder (PI)                                                     2005

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Area Health Education Centers

  Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Concerning Nutrition, Exercise and Trusted Health Information Sources Among Central Ohio’s Underserved Immigrant Latino Community

  Mekhjian, Sedmak, Whitacre, Ellison, St. Pierre, Snyder (PI)      2003

  Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University

  National Security and U.S. Health Policy Symposia  

  Funding for three-year symposia aimed at health security and policy issues.

  Grijalva (PI)                                                     1999

  Ohio University 1804 Fund

  Establishing an infectious disease laboratory in Quito, Ecuador

  ACADEMIC PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS

  Selected presentations

  "Microbes, Outbreaks and the Media:  Are US News Magazines Suffering from Sleeping Sickness When it Comes to Covering Tropical Disease?"  Study presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's annual conference, August 1999.

   “Tools of Destruction and Reconciliation: Language, Posters, Cartoons and Murals Playing Out the Troubles in Northern Ireland.” Study presented at the National Communication Association’s annual conference, November 2000.

  “Medicine in the Global Classroom,” Keynote speech at Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society induction, Ohio University,  May 1999.

  “The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Children.” Panel member, Children of the World Conference, Ohio University, April 2001.

  "Breaking the News on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)." Presented at the Association of American Medical College's Group on Institutional Advancement Annual Meeting, April 11, 2002

  “Project Medical Education:  Changing Congressional Staff Attitudes About the Costs and Complexity of Academic Medicine and Training.”  Presented to the Association of American Medical Colleges Government Relations Meeting, Washington, DC, 2002.

  “Medical Student Debt: Tell the Story.”  Presenter and panel member at Annual Meeting for the Association for American Medical College’s Group on Institutional Advancement Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, 2006.

  "The Anatomy of an OPTI:  The CORE," Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, November 1997, 97-11, 686-692.

"Microbes, Outbreaks and the Media:  Are US News Magazines Suffering from Sleeping Sickness When it Comes to Covering Tropical Disease?"  Study presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's annual convention, August 4-7, 1999.