Released on: September 30, 2008, 2:58 am

Press Release Author: Nikolaos Johnson

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: At a time in which communities around the world are evolving
and health care costs are spiraling out of control, this need for this new School is
critically important.

Press Release Body: Claremont, CA, September 30, 2008 -- Claremont Graduate
University announced the formation of the School of Community and Global Health
(www.cgu.edu/scgh), the ninth school in the university. The program will address
twenty-first century threats such as accelerated shifts in global populations, as
well as spikes in preventable health-related problems. Faculty has arrived in
Claremont, and classes will begin in spring, 2009.

Researchers will focus primarily on the decreases in health and well-being that
result from lifestyle choices, including obesity, diabetes, and diseases related to
tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse. This well-published team of experts will develop
recommendable health policies to target specific communities, while promoting policy
changes and shifts in behavior.

“This is a remarkable opportunity for CGU to provide leadership in graduate
education and take on some of the most important problems facing our region and our
world,” said CGU President Robert Klitgaard.

The new school is strategically aligned with the university’s renowned
transdisciplinary curriculum and research focus. It will create important synergies
with many research activities at CGU, and create new partnerships within the
university, especially with its Schools of Information Systems and Technology,
Politics and Economics, Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, and its Drucker
School of Management.

While traditionally stubborn health-related issues remain, emerging trends are also
looming: Climate change, shifts in wealth, and an increase in mental diseases.

CGU will offer a Masters in Public Health and a PhD in Areas of Prevention Science
and Health Promotion. Additionally, classes and research opportunities will be
available to students from all eight schools in the university and to those at the
five undergraduate Claremont Colleges and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied
Life Sciences. Many CGU graduates are expected to enter fields in academic,
government, and NGOs such as the Center of Disease Control and various health
ministries.

According to the new Dean, Professor C. Anderson Johnson, the United States spends
more than any other nation on health care ($2.2 trillion), but is 45th in return on
investment.

“Our ultimate goal is to create a fertile environment to convene the top minds and
diverse leaders from the sciences, public health, government, business, civil
society, and the community to engage in creative problem-solving dialogues leading
to new innovations in health, wellbeing, and quality of life,” Johnson said. “We
have a new vision of how to study and impact the health of the average citizen
around the world. It crosses boundaries and challenges the way things have been
looked at in the past to come up with new solutions to old problems and to tackle
head on emerging issues at a time of unprecedented global growth.”

The new full-time faculty members are among the most cited in the area of community,
global and public health issues. They are Susan Ames, Darleen Schuster, Alan Stacy,
Dennis Trinidad, Jennifer Unger and Kim Reynolds.

SCGH board members include Jonathan Fielding, Director of the Los Angeles Department
of Public Health; Alexandra Levine, Chief Medical Officer for City of Hope; Liming
Lee, founding Director of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
J. Mario Molina, President and CEO of Molina Healthcare, Inc.

About Claremont Graduate University

Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in
the country. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award
masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not
simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across
the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the
major problems plaguing our world. An independent institution devoted entirely to
graduate research and study, CGU sits on a 19-acre campus.
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Nikolaos Johnson
Claremont Graduate University
165 E. Tenth St.
Claremont, California 91711
909-621-8396
nikolaos.johnson@cgu.edu
http://www.cgu.edu

Web Site: http://www.cgu.edu

Contact Details: Nikolaos Johnson
Claremont Graduate University
165 E. Tenth St.
Claremont, California 91711
909-621-8396
nikolaos.johnson@cgu.edu
http://www.cgu.edu