STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3734

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.C.R. No. 270

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 270 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII TO SPEEDILY REBUILD A SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the University of Hawaii to speedily rebuild a School of Global and Public Health.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii; the American Industrial Hygiene Association, Hawaii Section; and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the closure of the former School of Public Health has severely limited the ability of the University of Hawaii to meet the State's demands for public health workers, resulting in a shortage of these workers at a time when the need for them is expanding. Your Committee further finds that the lack of a School of Public Health limits the State's ability to access public health research and training grant funds, without which the University is unable to participate in Centers for Disease Control cooperative agreements, tobacco control programs, and partnership opportunities with other universities in the Pacific.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 270, and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair