June 16: Dr. Paul Halverson and Dr. Nir Menachemi

The Rotary of Indianapolis welcomes Dr. Paul Halverson and Dr. Nir Menachemi, IU Fairbanks School of Public Health on Tuesday, June 16

Join us via Zoom to hear from fellow Rotarian Dr. Paul Halverson and Dr. Nir Menachemi from the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.

The Indiana State Department of Health is collaborating with the Fairbanks School of Public Health to conduct a scientific study to measure the spread of COVID-19 throughout the state. In total, at least 20,000 Hoosiers will be tested for the study. The study will enable the state to take a critical step forward in understanding how COVID-19 is affecting Hoosiers. Dr. Halverson and Dr. Menachemi, the principal investigator on the study, will talk with us about their findings as they enter phase two of the study.

Paul Halverson is the founding dean of the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis. Dr. Halverson came to Indiana University from the Arkansas Department of Health where he served as state health officer and director. Prior to his appointment as State Health Officer, Dr. Halverson served in senior management roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention including as senior advisor in the office of strategy and innovation, senior scientist and director of the division of public health systems development and research, director of the CDC’s World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Public Health and director of the National Public Health Performance Standards program. Before joining the CDC Dr. Halverson served as the senior health policy advisor for the North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources.

Dr. Nir Menachemi is the Fairbanks Endowed Chair and serves as Chair of the Health Policy and Management department of the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and holds the rank of Professor. He also holds an appointment as Scientist with the Regenstrief Institute, an internationally recognized informatics and healthcare research organization that is dedicated to the improvement of health through research that enhances the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care.

Before joining the Fairbanks School of Public Health, Dr. Menachemi held faculty positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health and the Florida State University College of Medicine. At UAB, he received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Graduate School Award for Excellence in Mentorship. In 2011, Dr. Menachemi received the “Professor John D. and Starr A. Blair Award in Health Organization Management Research” presented by the faculty at Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business.

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