MPH graduate Leigh Howard, M.D., M.P.H., receives 2015 Turner-Hazinksi Award
During Department of Pediatrics annual research retreat on May 22, 2015, Vanderbilt MPH Program alumna Leigh Howard, M.D., M.P.H., was named a 2015 Turner-Hazinksi Award winner. The award provides grants to support research by young pediatric faculty members. Howard’s current and future research will focus on the epidemiology of respiratory illnesses in young children in the Peruvian Andes, the interaction of viruses and bacteria in the nasopharynx, and the impact of these viral-bacterial interactions on respiratory disease pathogenesis.