Thursday March 12th
Evening Welcome Reception
Location: Tidewater Building, Diboll Gallery
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Registration and sign-in
Meet and greet with current students
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Faculty Panel: "How and Why Did You Get Into the Field of Public Health? Why Tulane?"
Penny Jessop, MPH: International Health and Development
Jeanette Magnus, PhD: Community Health Sciences
Susan Hassig, DrPH: Epidemiology
Charles Miller, PhD: Environmental Health Sciences
Mark Diana, PhD: Health Systems Management
Dawn Wesson, PhD: Tropical Medicine
Sudesh Srivastav, PhD: Biostatistics
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Reception
Refreshments to be served Friday, March 13, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Open House
Tidewater Building, Diboll Gallery 8:30am - 9:00am
Registration and sign-in
Meet and greet with current students 9:00am - 10:00am
Breakfast with the Dean
Jeffery Johnson, PhD Associate Dean of Admissions
Overview of Events
Kim Nelson, Admissions Counselor 10:00am - 11:00am
Department Introductions
Diboll Auditorium
John Lefante, PhD: Chair, Biostatistics
Tom Farley, MD: Chair, Community Health Sciences Patty Kissinger, PhD: Faculty, Epidemiology
Maureen Lichtveld, MD: Chair, Environmental Health Sciences and Freeport McMoRan Chair of Environmental Policy
Paul Hutchinson, PhD: Faculty, International Health and Development
Health Systems Management
Richard Oberhelman, MD: Chair, Tropical Medicine 11:00am - 12:00pm
Departmental Breakout Sessions Biostatistics - 20th Floor
Community Health Sciences - 23rd Floor Epidemiology - 20th Floor
Environmental Health - 21st Floor Health Systems Management - 19th Floor International Health and Development - 22nd Floor
Tropical Medicine - 22nd Floor
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
Tidewater Building, Room 1210
1:00pm - 2:00pm Diboll Auditorium
Current Student Panel: "Life in New Orleans and at Tulane"
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Financial Aid Overview
Mike Goodman, Associate Vice President of University Financial Aid 2:30pm - 3:00pm
Local and international public health opportunities Maya Begalieva, MD, PhD, MPH: Faculty, Community Health
John Hemling, MPH: Global Health Fellows
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Downtown tour of School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, and Deming Pavillion
Optional events
Tour the Uptown campus via Tulane shuttle (every 30 minutes)
Dinner on your own | 
Learn more about graduate public health programs at Tulane from current students and faculty! Featuring a faculty panel presentation, departmental break-out sessions, continental breakfast, and lunch.
Register now!
Hotel Accommodations
Near Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Best Western Saint Charles Inn website
3636 Saint Charles Avenue
(3.13 miles TUSPHTM)
P: 504/899-8888
Holiday Inn/French Quarter
website
124 Royal Street
(0.64 miles from TUSPHTM)
504-529-7211
Wyndham Riverfront Hotel
website
701 Convention Boulevard
(1.14 miles from TUSPHTM)
P: 504.524.8200
Chateau Hotel
website
1001 Chartres Street
(1.27 miles from TUSPHTM)
P: 504.524.9636 Hilton Hotel 333 St. Charles Ave (1.27 miles from TUSPHTM)
P: 504.524.8890 *Ask for Student rate of $109.00 per night* The above mentioned hotels are not affiliated with or endorsed by Tulane University |
