The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has announced the appointment of Magda G. Peck as the inaugural dean of its Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health. Dr. Peck’s appointment is effective on March 1, 2012. Currently, she is associate dean for community engagement and public health practice and professor of pediatrics and public health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Dr. Peck is a graduate of Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the School of Public Health at Harvard University.