Photo of Mel Lagarde
Alumnus Mel Lagarde will receive Outstanding Alumni Award

Maurice “Mel” L. Lagarde III (A&S ’79, PHTM *82) will receive this year’s Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Outstanding Alumni Award.

Nevada County Public Health Officer Dr. Scott Kellermann is saying that the county will soon be the exemplary model of COVID-19 vaccinations in the state. Photo by Elias Funez
Alumni Notes

Scott Kellermann (MPH TRMD ’78) has been named the County of Nevada Public Health officer in Nevada City, Calif. Kellermann founded a 175-bed Bwindi Community Hospital in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest of Uganda, where he has worked for twenty years with the Batwa pygmies.

Photos of alumna Chen Peng (left) and her mentor Paula Buchanan (right)
Tulane SPHTM Alumni Mentoring Program creates meaningful connections

In 2014, Dr. Sue Griffey, mentor emeritus and former member of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Alumni Association Board of Directors, launched the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (SPHTM) Alumni Mentoring Program.