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Howard Hiatt
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I also invited professors of biology and chemistry on the committee and the candidate was found, again, to have carried out work that was not of tenure calibre. This person was president of the... the national association of his field which made for even greater difficulty in understanding such a decision on the part of some of the faculty, and that... that concern was expressed to me with some frequency. I... we did ultimately appoint... go outside of the area to appoint a person in the area. That individual, completely renewed the field, rejuvenated the field, although for the first two or three years of his service at the school, was refused research grants from the study section that included people from other schools of public health from the same field who couldn't understand how this individual, without a background in... in public health, so to speak, could... could succeed. As I said, he did ultimately change the field and the department at the school and in other schools of public health now, are greatly the stronger for what he and people he recruited have contributed.
Born in 1925, American Howard Hiatt set up one of the first medical oncology research and training units in the US and has headed up some of America's most prestigious medical institutions. Hiatt attended Harvard College and received his MD from the Harvard Medical School in 1948. He was a member of the team at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, that first identified and described mRNA, and he was among the first to demonstrate mRNA in mammalian cells. From 1991 to 1997, he was Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he began and directs the Academy's Initiatives For Children program. He is also committed to helping disadvantaged people access decent health care.
Title: Benefits of recruiting outsiders
Listeners: Milton C. Weinstein
Milton C. Weinstein, Ph.D., is the Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. At the Harvard School of Public Health he is Academic Director of the Program in Health Decision Science, and Director of the Program on Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology . He is best known for his research on cost-effectiveness of medical practices and for developing methods of economic evaluation and decision analysis in health care. He is a co-developer of the CEPAC (Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications) computer simulation model, and has conducted studies on prevention and treatment of HIV infections. He is the co-developer of the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model, which has been used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular prevention and treatment. He is an author of four books: Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values; Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine,the report of the Panel of Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine; Clinical Decision Analysis; and Hypertension: A Policy Perspective.He has also published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed medical, public health, and economics journals. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Award for Career Achievement from the Society for Medical Decision Making. Dr. Weinstein received his A.B. and A.M. in Applied Mathematics (1970), his M.P.P. (1972), and his Ph.D. in Public Policy (1973) from Harvard University.
Tags: public health, faculty head
Duration: 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Date story recorded: September 2006
Date story went live: 24 January 2008
