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.
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.
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.