Administration

Amy Fairchild chosen as the next dean of the College of Public Health

Dr. Fairchild will join Ohio State from the Texas A & M University, where she serves as associate vice president for faculty and academic affairs in the Health Science Center and formerly served as associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Public Health. She is also a professor in the university’s Department of Health Policy and Management.

Dr. Fairchild’s research and professional service have focused on public health ethics, including issues related to privacy, paternalism, panic and disease control.

Ohio’s opioid crisis: ‘We're all in this together’

When Ohio Governor John Kasich passed through the sunlit atrium of the Ohio Statehouse one morning in early April, he noticed a meeting taking place with an all too familiar theme.

It was two days after Kasich gave his State of the State address in Sandusky, Ohio, where he discussed, among other needs, the opioid epidemic that has been ravaging his state. So when he stumbled upon a room full of education, health and government leaders discussing opiate abuse in Ohio, he seized the opportunity.