What Gifts Have Done in the Past

Private support has enabled the College of Public Health to provide a first-rate education for UI students, top-notch research that helps shape the field of public health, and crucial services to the state of Iowa. Here are just a few examples of how gifts have helped the college fulfill its mission:

• A leadership gift from Richard F. and Barbara E. Hansen of Iowa City will endow an award and lecture series in the college. The Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award and Lecture Series will honor exemplary leaders in the health field and bring them to campus so that students, faculty, and public health professionals may be challenged by their ideas and insights. U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) was selected to receive the first award.
• A grant from the Wellmark Foundation of Des Moines will enable the UI College of Public Health and Heartland Bioethics Center to systematically examine end-of-life issues in three rural Iowa communities: Carroll, Oskaloosa, and Ottumwa. The initiative will increase awareness and encourage the development of educational programs to help professionals organize services that result in improved care during the final stages of life.
• James H. Cavanaugh (1961 M.A., 1964 Ph.D.) and Esther M. Cavanaugh of Devon, Pennsylvania; John Pappajohn (1952 B.S.C.) and Mary L. Pappajohn of Des Moines; and Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Des Moines were among the contributors who made leadership gifts to the campaign for the John W. Colloton Chair in Health Management and Policy. The chair is named for John W. Colloton (1957 M.A.), former vice president for Statewide Health Services, former director of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and a generous UI contributor. Endowed faculty positions such as this help attract and retain top scholars and help leverage funding from other external sources such as foundations and government agencies.

These are just a few examples of the generosity that has helped the College of Public Health progress toward its goal of developing a nationally recognized, comprehensive resource for the study and practice of public health.

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