Sayali Tarlekar selected as Editor

Sayali Tarlekar, SRPH student, has been selected to be the Co- Editor in Chief of Context-The Journal of Health Students Taking Action together. The journal can be viewed at contextjournal.org.

Dr. Marlynn May accepts award

Dr. Marlynn May is the inaugural recipient of the Wimberly Chair in Health Services Research, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities (SLEHC), with a focus on Community-Based Research. The Wimberly Chair, endowed through a $1 million gift in honor of The Rt. Rev. Don A. Wimberly, eighth Bishop of the 57-county Episcopal Diocese of Texas, was created to sustain the work of an established scholar with a demonstrated interest in community-based research and underserved communities, as evidenced by practice, teaching, research, and publications.

The SLEHC was created in 1997 as a component of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System located in Houston. It is a public, non-operating charity that has engaged in grant-making and community-based research since its inception. It has awarded 1, 294 grants totaling more than $74 million to nonprofit service organizations. Its grant-making is directed toward disease prevention and health promotion among the underserved.

Marlynn’s work first came to the attention of SLEHC through a CBPR Project he created nearly three years ago in partnership with the Paso del Norte Health Foundation in El Paso. Representatives of SLEHC visited the El Paso Project , became interested in his work with community-academy partnerships, and over the past year they have continued to discuss ways in which he, SLEHC and SRPH might partner.