[CCoE Notice] Industrial Engineering Seminar Announcement

[Tekin, Eylem]

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR

Date: March 30, 2012
Time: 10-11am
Place: D 102

Local Public Health Emergencies: Local Public Health in Action



Herminia Palacio, MD, MPH, Executive Director

Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services

Houston, Texas


Abstract

In this seminar, Dr. Palacio will present the complexities of a local public health department as illustrated by public health emergencies.

Biosketch


Dr. Palacio was appointed to the post of Executive Director of Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services (HCPHES), the local health department for approximately 1.8 million people in January 2003.  In addition to her administrative responsibilities, as a local public health authority in the third largest county in the U.S., she provides oversight for a wide variety of public health emergency responses.  For example, she served as the Medical Branch Director for the Astrodome/Reliant Park mega-shelter operation for over 27,000 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, as the Incident Commander for the public health response to many infectious disease incidents and environmental incidents, and is currently tasked with playing a lead role in local pandemic influenza preparedness planning.  Dr. Palacio received her medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where she was also inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.  She completed her residency training at the University of California San Francisco Primary Care Internal Medicine Program at San Francisco General Hospital.  After becoming a Board Certified Internist, she obtained a Master's of Public Health, with an emphasis in Epidemiology, from the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.  She spent several years on the faculty of UCSF, where she served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator in several federally funded and private foundation HIV epidemiology and health services research studies.  She is an author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and was featured in a permanent exhibit entitled "AIDS: The War Within" established by the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in 1994.

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