Annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Distributed.
Following the first day of the 2015 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo in Chicago, SPH spent the evening honoring its alumni.
Vivian Cabral (’97), Khalil Memon (’99), and Lois Simon (’83) received Distinguished Alumni Awards in recognition of their outstanding contributions and exemplary dedication to the field of public health on a local, national, or global level.
Cabral is a consultant at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, which she has helped position as a thought leader in innovation. Her past roles include prize manager at XPrize Foundation, an educational nonprofit dedicated to bringing about radical breakthroughs through incentivized competition; and, while a project manager at Pfizer, helping launch that company’s Smoking Cessation Platform.
Memon is the CEO and president of DK Healthcare Services, a Chicago-based home healthcare agency of nurses, healthcare managers, registered nurses, and physical and occupational therapists. He has held health officer positions in his native Pakistan and worked extensively with the World Bank, UNICEF, and NGOs. Memon is co-founder, with his wife, of Blessing Foundation International, which provides medical care, services, and resources in the United States and Pakistan.
Simon is president and co-founder of Commonwealth Care Alliance, a consumer governed, specialized healthcare delivery system, where she is responsible for the design, development, and management of the organization’s business and program planning. She has held senior leadership roles at Neighborhood Health Plan and East Boston Neighborhood Health and is a former SPH adjunct associate clinical professor.
Dean Sandro Galea gave the Distinguished Alumni Awards at the SPH Alumni Reception, held at the Willis Tower Skydeck. Chicago native Robyn Eckerling (’06), a privacy counsel at Aon, gave the opening address.