Public Health: Past, Present, Future
Location
Performing Arts Center on the Statesboro Campus, Nessmith-Lane Conference Center
Start Date
10-17-2022 7:00 PM
Document Type
Presentation (File Not Available for Download)
Description
As deputy commissioner for the Georgia Department of Public Health, Chris Rustin, DrPH, has helped Georgia respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the current monkeypox outbreak. These issues are a part of the past, present and future of public health in Georgia, which he discussed on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m., in the Performing Arts Center on Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus.
Rustin is the featured speaker in the 2022 Norman Fries Distinguished Lectureship Series, hosted this year by the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH). The event is free and open to the public.
Recommended Citation
Rustin, Chris, "Public Health: Past, Present, Future" (2022). Norman Fries Distinguished Lectureship Series. 1.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/fries/Fries/2022/1
Public Health: Past, Present, Future
Performing Arts Center on the Statesboro Campus, Nessmith-Lane Conference Center
As deputy commissioner for the Georgia Department of Public Health, Chris Rustin, DrPH, has helped Georgia respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the current monkeypox outbreak. These issues are a part of the past, present and future of public health in Georgia, which he discussed on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m., in the Performing Arts Center on Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus.
Rustin is the featured speaker in the 2022 Norman Fries Distinguished Lectureship Series, hosted this year by the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH). The event is free and open to the public.
Comments
Chris Rustin, is the DrPH, deputy commissioner for the Georgia Department of Public Health and the public health administrator for the Chatham County Health Department. An alumni of the JPHCOPH, he received his Doctor of Public Health with an emphasis on Community Health. Additionally, he is a Registered Environmental Health Specialist with the Georgia Board of Registered Environmental Health Professionals, a Fellow of the CDC Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute, and the immediate past President of the Georgia Public Health Association.
The annual Norman Fries Distinguished Lectureship Series is sponsored by an endowment established to honor Mr. Fries, the founder of Claxton Poultry and former senior statesman of the poultry industry in Georgia. He passed away in December 2001. His company continues its tradition as a privately held family business with the Fries children and grandchildren.