el faro

Volume 1, Issue 3June 2008

El Faro Staff

Oscar Torres, Editor

Nicole Cano, M.P.H.,
Newsletter Coordinator

National Office

Jane Brooks, M.Sc., C.M.P.
Communications Manager

This Month's Contributors

Octavio Campollo, M.D., Ph.D.

Jorge Delva, Ph.D.

Wesley G. Jennings, Ph.D.

Claudia Morales

Anna Robert

Rosa Solorio, M.D., M.P.H.

Steffanie A. Strathdee, Ph.D.

Daniel Rodriguez, Ph.D.

 
National Steering Committee

Patricia E. Molina, M.D., Ph.D., NHSN Chair

William Vega, Ph.D., NHSN Vice Chair

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D.

Margarita Alegría, Ph.D.

Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D.

Jim Anthony, Ph.D.

Hendricks Brown, Ph.D.

Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D.

Diana Martínez, M.D.

Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Ph.D.

Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D.

José Szapocznik, Ph.D.

Yonette F. Thomas, Ph.D.

Avelardo Valdez, Ph.D.

Volume 1, Issue 3

By Dr. Daniel Rodriguez

"Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States...understanding why some youth engage in this deadly habit despite its risks." (View Full Article)


 

Members in the Spotlight

 

Note from the Editor
Welcome Message from the Editor of El Faro: La Voz de la Red, Dr. Nelson TIburcio

This edition of El Faro examines various roles and challenges as experienced by Graduate Students and Early Career Investigators as they transition into the worlds of academia and/or engage in research endeavors. (View Full Article)

 

The International Front
Health Profile of a Group of Homeless Individuals in the Downtown Area of the City of Guadalajara

Those individuals who are destitute or homeless, or seem to be so, face numerous obstacles in order to obtain access to preventive, curative or palliative medical care. (View Full Article)

 

New Member Interviews
Check out the interviews with new members Wesley Jennings, Claudia Morales, and Rosa Solorio.

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Nuestra Voz: First Person Column
The "D" Club, by Steffanie A. Strathdee, Ph.D.

"I was still a year away from finishing my PhD thesis. There was no other epidemiologist working on AIDS in Toronto at the time, and the chair of my department at U of T kept telling me to change thesis topics since AIDS would 'blow over soon'." (View Full Article)

 

Summer Research Training Institute Corner
Read here for a personal column written by Anna Robert, NHSN Graduate Student Member and 2007 SRTI Fellow

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Letters of the Day
This section contains a list of recommended scientific and news related websites, online journals, blogs, and search engines that may be useful to our membership.

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