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Tilghman names committee to guide health and well-being efforts
Posted June 1, 2006; 10:54 a.m.
President Shirley M. Tilghman has appointed a committee to carry forward the work of the Task Force on Health and Well-Being.
The Advisory Board to Healthier Princeton met for the first time in
May. The 24-member group includes students, faculty, alumni,
administrators and outside experts. It is co-chaired by Janet
Dickerson, vice president for campus life, and Robert Durkee, vice
president and secretary, who also co-chaired the Task Force on Health
and Well-Being.
The task force, appointed by Tilghman in fall 2003, issued interim
reports in January and June 2004 and a final report in November 2004.
It proposed several significant changes in University policies and
programs to address the health care needs and promote the health and
well-being of students, faculty and staff. Recommendations in the final report
included: a substantial increase in the size of the University Health
Services staff; major improvements of the facilities at McCosh Health
Center and Dillon Gymnasium; appointment of a work-life coordinator;
and a considerable expansion of the child care opportunities available
to members of the University community.
An outgrowth of the task force's work has been the creation of
"Healthier Princeton," an integrated program of health
promotion/education, disease detection/prevention and fitness/wellness
services for students, faculty and staff. Healthier Princeton will be
based on an assessment of the academic, cultural, physical and social
environments of the campus and their impact upon the health and
well-being of all members of the University community. The new
committee will advise the offices responsible for this initiative and
the senior officers of the University.
Members of the committee are: Megan Adams, director of risk management
and assistant treasurer; Ruth Berkelman, a 1973 alumna who is the
Rollins Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for
Public Health Preparedness and Research at Emory University; Thomas
Breidenthal, dean of religious life; Gray Ellrodt, a 1970 alumnus who
is chair of the Department of Medicine at Berkshire Medical Center in
Pittsfield, Mass.; Kenneth Jamison, a graduate student; Richard
Krugman, a 1963 alumnus who is dean of the University of Colorado
School of Medicine; Sanjeev Kulkarni, professor of electrical
engineering and master of Butler College; David Leach, associate
director of
athletics for campus recreation; Esther Lee, an undergraduate; Alison
Nelson, director of benefits in the Office of Human Resources;
Christina Paxson, professor of economics and public affairs; Terri
Harris Reed, vice provost for institutional equity and diversity;
Dwayne Rex, senior maintenance mechanic in facilities; Lauren
Robinson-Brown, director of communications; Inez Scribner, president of
the auxiliary to the McCosh Infirmary; Karin Sigloch, a graduate
student; Daniel Silverman, chief medical officer and executive director
of University Health Services; Lianne Sullivan-Crowley, vice president
for human resources; Paula Swinford, director of health promotion and
prevention services at the University of Southern California and former
president of the American College Health Association; Brigham Walker,
an undergraduate; Garth Walters, director of environmental health and
safety; and Karen Woodbridge, director of community relations in the
Office of Community and Regional Affairs.