Committees
The IHPR has established two committees to help shape and advance goals and objectives:
- The Trans UT Health Science Center-CTRC Advisory Committee will help integrate the IHPR with these institutions and maximize resource-sharing, research and training opportunities between them. Also, as the IHPR is in charge of coordinating outreach for the CTRC at UT Health Scince Center, this committee will share local and state opportunities for community-based participatory research and information on local perspectives of health needs, research capacity-building and IHPR-supported community interventions.
- The External National Advisory Board will unite nationally recognized health promotion and disease prevention experts who have extensive experience in organizational development within academic centers, communication research, behavioral sciences and grantsmanship. This committee will advise the IHPR on trends and opportunities in research, training and community outreach at the federal, state, non-profit and corporate-social levels. The committee also will review the IHPR’s progress and offer benchmarks for future directions; review programs or research for conceptual issues before implementation; and help identify opportunities for more rigorous and evidence-based outcomes. Committee members have three-year terms and meet twice annually.
The 2008 committee members:
Lawrence W. Green, Dr.P.H., Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Co-Leader of the Society, Diversity & Disparities Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco
Fernando A. Guerra, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., Director of Health of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UT Health Science Center as San Antonio
Judith M. Ottoson, Ed.D., M.P.H., Lecturer and Program Evaluation Teacher, Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University
John K. Worden, M.S., Ph.D., Research Professor, Office of Health Promotion Research, University of Vermont
Lucina Suarez, Ph.D., Director, Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance, Texas Department of State Health Services