Health and Human Sciences

Public Health professor recognized for community service with NPU-V

4/25/2007

Marshall Kreuter, professor of public health, has received the 2007 Outstanding Faculty Member Award  (click to view video) during the 2nd annual Presidents Awards for Community Service and Social Action. The Presidents Awards were created to honor faculty, staff, students, and campus groups for their contributions to the Atlanta community.  Kreuter, selected for his research with Neighborhood Planning Unit-V, credits his faculty colleagues, graduate students and community residents for the progress made to date.  Funded by a 3-year grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, this project brings together neighborhood residents, researchers at the Institute of Public Health, local area business, and government and philanthropic organizations to identify what local residents deemed to be their priority health concern.  Because they perceived mental health and situational depression to be root causes of many problems, that was the priority selected.  As a result three pilot projects will be launched in the next month, each of which addresses difference aspects of mental health and depression.