The School of Public Health is pleased to be the new home of the Letourneau organ formerly in James Kibbie's studio. To celebrate its new home, the School is hosting a series of bi-weekly recitals presented by alums and current students and faculty in the organ department.

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch. You may pack your own lunch or purchase items (soup, salad, sandwiches) in our adjoining Crossroads Cafe. Recitals will occur alternate Wednesdays, 12:15-12:45, in the Community Lounge, room 1680 of the School of Public Health.

For our final program of the fall semester James Kibbie, Professor of Organ, will be joined by a vocal ensemble (Katrin Murdock, soprano; Rose Mullins, contralto; Thom Spafford, tenor; and Rod Little, bass) in selections from Handel's Messiah.  Many of you will recognize Rod Little, chair of Biostatistics, and Thom Spafford, Project Manager in Biostatistics.

Mark your calendars now for our winter term series:

• January 21:  Shin-Ae Chun, U-M DMA graduate and organist, First Congregational Church, Toledo
• February 4:  Deborah Friauff, U-M DMA graduate and organist/music director, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor
  
• February 18: Margarete Thomsen, U-M DMA graduate and organist/piano teacher
• March 4:  Christopher Reynolds, U-M DMA candidate and organist, West Side United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor
• March 18:  Naki Sung Kripfgans, U-M DMA graduate and organist, First United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor
• April 1:  Marijim Thoene, U-M DMA graduate and organist/music director, St. John's Lutheran Church, Dundee  

The University of Michigan Department of Epidemiology
Presents
Leslie Bernstein, PhD
City of Hope Beckman Research Institute
speaking on "Changing Breast Cancer Risk: Novel Population Approaches"

The majority of risk factors for breast cancer are not easily modified, but they provide insight into the mechanisms that mediate their associations with breast cancer.  These insights lead us to think more creatively about novel risk factors that can be applied through behavioral change.  The evidence for physical activity and other potential, modifiable breast cancer risk factors will be discussed

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
3:00 pm
Lane Family Auditorium
Room 1690, SPH Tower
 
All interested persons are cordially invited 
 
For further information, please contact  tjrob@umich.edu or phone (734) 615-8470.

 

Food Insecurity: the Impact on African Women and Children

Meredith Turshen, Rutgers University, discusses her current research as part of the speakers series Gender, Africa Development and Human Security. This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the African Development and Human Security Project in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, presents the speaker series:

Gender, Development and Human Security in Africa

Lunch will be served.

 

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELED.

 

 

The Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and the University of Michigan's Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program Welcomes Eric Klinenberg, PhD Professor of Sociology New York University Speaking on "Alone in America".

RSVP required to csephlectures@umich.edu

Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology at New York University. His first book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, won six scholarly and literary prizes. A theatrical adaptation of Heat Wave premiered in Chicago in 2008, and a feature documentary based on the book is currently in production.

Klinenberg's second book, Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media, was called "politically passionate and intellectually serious," (Columbia Journalism Review), "a must-read for those who wonder what happened to good radio, accurate reporting and autonomous public interest" (Time Out New York), and "eye-opening &required reading for conscientious citizens" (Kirkus).

He is currently working on a new book, Alone in America, about the extraordinary rise of living alone. Alone in America will be published by The Penguin Press. In addition to his books and scholarly articles, Klinenberg writes for popular publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Slate.

 

Topic: Antipsychotics and Mortality in the Elderly

Dr. Helen Kales, Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Research Investigator at VA HSRD and GRECC, will be presenting at our monthly Research Seminar.

Venue: 9th floor, NIB

Time:  4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Kathy Ford, Research Scientist, UM School of Public Health, speaks on Migrant Workers and HIV Risk in Thailand
Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Fridays at noon seminar series.

December 5, 2008,1636 School of Social Work Building/International Institute

The Office of Public Health Practice at the University of Michigan School of Public Health presents:

Public Health Grand Rounds:Youth Violence: It’s a Public Health Issue

Presenters:
Marc Zimmerman, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Phyllis D. Meadows, PhD, MSN, RN, Director and Health Officer of the   Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion
Angela K. McGowan, JD, MPH, Senior Program Officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Group 

Presentations will be followed by a discussion with presenters and audience, facilitated by Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health 

Friday, December 5, 2008
Live Internet Webcast
11:30am- 1:00pm (ET)

Room 1690 School of Public Health Crossroads Building
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Lunch will be provided to those who register by December 2, 2008.
For more information or to register for this free event visit:

www.mipreparedness.org

The School of Public Health is pleased to be the new home of the Letourneau organ formerly in James Kibbie's studio. To celebrate its new home, the School is hosting a series of bi-weekly recitals presented by alums and current students and faculty in the organ department.

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch. You may pack your own lunch or purchase items (soup, salad, sandwiches) in our adjoining Crossroads Cafe. Recitals will occur alternate Wednesdays, 12:15-12:45, in the Community Lounge, room 1680 of the School of Public Health.

We begin our winter term series with Shin-Ae Chun, U-M DMA graduate and organist, First Congregational Church, Toledo.

The series continues with:

• February 4: Deborah Friauff, U-M DMA graduate and organist/music director, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor
• February 18: Margarete Thomsen, U-M DMA graduate and organist/piano teacher
• March 4: Christopher Reynolds, U-M DMA candidate and organist, West Side United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor
• March 18: Naki Sung Kripfgans, U-M DMA graduate and organist, First United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor
• April 1: Marijim Thoene, U-M DMA graduate and organist/music director, St. John's Lutheran Church, Dundee

 

 

 

Whose Human Security? Gender, Neo-liberalisma nd the Informal Economy in Sub Saharan Africa.
Zo Randriamaro, Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Madagascar.
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the African Development and Human Security Project in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, presents the speaker series:

Gender, Development and Human Security in Africa

Lunch will be served.

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch.  You may pack your own lunch or purchase items in the Crossroads Café.  Programs begin at 12:15 and end in time for you to reach your 1:00 appointments.

Deborah Friauff, U-M DMA graduate and organist/music director, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor will be performing.

Treating AIDS in South Africa and Uganda: Semi-authoritarian Technologies in Gendered Contexts of Insecurity
Lisa Ann Richey, International Development Studies, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch.  You may pack your own lunch or purchase items in the Crossroads Café.  Programs begin at 12:15 and end in time for you to reach your 1:00 appointments.

Margarete Thomsen, U-M DMA graduate and organist/piano teacher will be performing.

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch.  You may pack your own lunch or purchase items in the Crossroads Café.  Programs begin at 12:15 and end in time for you to reach your 1:00 appointments.

Christopher Reynolds, U-M DMA candidate and organist, West Side United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor

Minority Health Conference
Bridging the Gap: Addressing Health Disparities by Translating Research into Public Health Practice

"For 23 years, the Public Health Students of African Descent have made this annual conference one of the school's premier events. This year's session brings together leading public health professional and practitioners, students, and community members to discuss innovative and practical ways of confronting the health disparities that plague our most vulnerable populations.  Registration begins in January. "
 

Gender, Environment and Human Security in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana
Jacob Songsore, The University of Michigan and Former Dean of Research, University of Ghana.
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project.

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the African Development and Human Security Project in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, presents the speaker series:

Gender, Development and Human Security in Africa

Lunch will be served.

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch.  You may pack your own lunch or purchase items in the Crossroads Café.  Programs begin at 12:15 and end in time for you to reach your 1:00 appointments.

Naki Sung Kripfgans, U-M DMA graduate and organist, First United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor will be performing.

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch.  You may pack your own lunch or purchase items in the Crossroads Café.  Programs begin at 12:15 and end in time for you to reach your 1:00 appointments.

Marijim Thoene, U-M DMA graduate and Ann Arbor organist will be performing.
 

Please mark your calendar for UM SPH graduation.
Thursday, April 30, 2009, Hill Auditorium, 5:30 p.m. The SPH graduation website with all the details will be up soon.

Tentative Timeline for Graduation Day at Hill Auditorium:

4:00 - 4:30 p.m. - Graduates arrive, visit the registration tables and are directed to the processional staging area
4:45 - 5:15 p.m. - Guests are seated in the auditorium
5:15 p.m.- Graduates line up to begin the procession
5:30 p.m. - Graduation begins promptly with procession of graduating students

Additional UM Graduation Ceremonies:

Winter Commencement http://www.umich.edu/~gradinfo/winter/
University Graduate Exercises http://www.umich.edu/%7Egradinfo/exercises/
Spring Commencement http://www.umich.edu/%7Egradinfo/spring/