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Unless otherwise indicated, the following webcasts can be viewed with RealPlayer and/or Windows Media Player. Users with older web browsers may need to paste URLs into their brower's address bar.

Watch presentations by more than a dozen leading authorities, from Christine Todd Whitman to NPR's Richard Harris, in videos from UM SPH's 2007 Bernstein Symposium on Nanotechnology and Health. (Windows Media Player format)

Four videos from summer 2007:

"Health, Race, and Media: The Power of Perception" was the 21st Annual Minority Health Conference presented in March 2007 by PHSAD. Keynotes (formatted in Windows Media):

  • "Is There a Health Risk Disparity for Minority Youth? Media as perpetrator and liberator," by Michael Rich, M.D., M.P.H., Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital, Boston, and Harvard SPH (preceded by conference opening remarks).
    http://ummedia12.rs.itd.umich.edu/sph/phsad/MichaelRich.wmv
  • "Somewhere Between Sincere Ignorance, Conscientious Stupidity, and Audacious Optimism: The future of minority health, Congressional imperative, and health professional training." Aranthan "AJ" Jones II, M.P.H., Director of Policy and Research, Office of the Majority Whip, U.S. House of Representatives.
    http://ummedia12.rs.itd.umich.edu/sph/phsad/AranthanJones.wmv


March 15, 2007, UM SPH and UM News Service multimedia report with Allison Aiello and Arnold Monto on the purpose, methodology, and timeliness of the M-Flu study. (4:20-minute Flash or Windows Media video).


On Feb. 12, 2007, the University of Michigan welcomed Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health, the subject of the Tracy Kidder book Mountains Beyond Mountains.

Listen to the Distingushed University Professor Lecture 'Putting People at the Center of Solutions: Controlling Chronic Disease' (formatted in Windows Media). Noreen Clark, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, and former dean of UM SPH, delivered the talk on October 26, 2006, preceding the opening of the UM SPH Crossroads building.

View archived video from the October 2006 schoolwide Public Health Symposium on 'Katrina, Catastrophes, and Communicable Disease Calamities: Are We Prepared?'

The UM SPH Center for Law, Ethics, and Health's inaugural Southwick Lecture on April 12, 2006, featured Senator George Mitchell discussing "Does the Animosity Between Legal and Medical Professions Undermine Patient Care?"

The University of Michigan hosted the U.S. Citizens' Health Care Working Group's "virtual town meeting," an interactive health care forum, on March 22, 2006, in Ann Arbor, Michigan and simultaneously at 22 institutions nationwide, with goal of learning what needs to be done to make health care work better for all Americans.

Human Health & Animal Disease: An Epidemiologic Collision?
This full-day symposium was presented by the Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness and the UM SPH Office of Public Health Practice on January 24, 2006.

Panel discussion on 'Hurricane Katrina and Its Public Health Aftermath, Sept. 16, 2005 (Windows Media: http://umtv-live.rs.itd.umich.edu/sph/riskno.asx rs ):
A late addition to the Risk Science and Communication Center symposium; moderated by UM SPH Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Dean for Practice Matthew L. Boulton, M.D., M.P.H. Other topics and speakers included:

  • “Evacuees and Their Needs,” Gregory Button, Ph.D., UM SPH Adjunct Lecturer in Health Behavior and Health Education (just returned from the Houston Astrodome, where he had a National Science Foundation Grant to do a rapid assessment of the unmet needs of evacuees).
  • “Supporting Relocated Disaster Survivors,” Ellen Clement, M.P.H., M.S.W., Director and Administrative Health Officer, Washtenaw County Health Department, Michigan.
  • “Environmental Effects and Exposures,” Martin Philbert, Ph.D., UM SPH Professor of Toxicology and Associate Dean for Research.
  • “Mental Health Effects of Disasters,” Sandro Galea, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., UM SPH Associate Professor of Epidemiologyco-director of the Disaster Research Education and Mentoring Center.
  • “The Role of the Volunteer: A Student Volunteer's Perspective,” Joshua Karnes, Student, UM SPH Department of Health Management and Policy.

Voice of America, Sept. 21, 2005: Local Officials Welcome Military Disaster Aid, But Don't Want to Give Up Control
UM SPH's Rosemarie Rowney discusses concerns and sensitivity on behalf of the UM SPH Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness. (Text transcript also available.)

50th Anniversary of the Polio Vaccine Announcement April 12, 2005, proceedings and commemorative video retrospective.

UM SPH Flu Expert Arnold Monto Discusses Avian Influenza on NPR's Science Friday
January 28, 2005, National Public Radio

Memorial Celebration for Michigan SPH Dean Emeritus Myron Wegman, 1908-2004
May 21, 2004, Michigan League, Ann Arbor.
Friends and colleagues of Myron Wegman to honored his life and work, with comments by:

  • Noreen Clark, dean, Michigan SPH
  • David Wegman and Jane Wegman Dunatchik, Myron Wegman's children
  • Terri Weinstein Mellow, director of communications, Michigan SPH
  • John Romani, professor emeritus, Michigan SPH
  • Anne Wallis, assistant professor, University of Iowa
  • Robert Winfield, director, UM Health Service
  • Jose Teruel, Pan American Health Organization
  • Laura Nathan, physician
  • Kenneth Warner, professor, Michigan SPH
  • Julio Frenk, minister of health, Mexico
  • Robben Fleming, president emeritus, University of Michigan
  • Ralph Peterson, Myron Wegman's son-in-law

Presented by Michigan SPH Office of Communications; video produced by Michigan SPH Public Health Library and Informatics.

A video chronicle of the life and career of this public health pioneer is also available for viewing.

International SARS Symposium: A Case Study for Public Health Preparedness
 January 20, 2004, program sponsored by UM Academic Center for Public Health Preparedness.
These video and PowerPoint presentations used at the symposium by public health experts from China, Hong Kong, Europe, Canada, the U.S., and the World Health Organization examine preparedness lessons learned from the global SARS experience.

Groundbreaking for the Crossroads of Public Health
October 23, 2003, celebration of the new University of Michigan School of Public Health facility that will allow for greater collaboration among departments, research centers, faculty, students, and communities of all kinds.
(Eight-minute highlight video.)
More information about the Crossroads of Public Health.

September 11: One Year Later, One Year Forward (http://umtv-live.rs.itd.umich.edu/sph/sept11.ram)
September 11, 2002, panel discussion featuring comments by:

  • Matthew Boulton, MD, MPH, state epidemiologist, Michigan Department of Community Health, and clinical associate professor of epidemiology, UM SPH
  • Noreen M. Clark, PhD, dean, UM SPH
  • Jenifer Martin, Moderator, JD, administrator, University of Michigan Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative
  • Arnold Monto, MD, professor of epidemiology and director, University of Michigan Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative
  • Harold A. Pollack, PhD, associate professor, UM SPH
  • Rosemarie Rowney, RN, MPH, director of training, University of Michigan Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative, former manager/health officer, Oakland County Health Division

Presented by the University of Michigan Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative.

Smallpox and Smallpox Vaccination: How to Prepare for Bioterrorism (http://umtv-live.rs.itd.umich.edu/sph/smallpox.ram)
April 29, 2002
Guest speaker: Kenneth McIntosh, MD, professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; director, Clinical Research Program, Children's Hospital, Boston. Panelists include:

  • Sandro Cinti, MD, lecturer in internal medicine and infectious diseases, UM
  • James Koopman, MD, professor of epidemiology
  • Arnold Monto, MD, director, University of Michigan Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative (moderator)
  • Gillian A. Stoltman, PhD, MPH, director, Communicable Disease and Immunization, Michigan Department of Community Health

Presented by the University of Michigan Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative.


Public Health Response to Bioterrorism
November 16, 2001, four-part presentation:

Introductory remarks by Noreen M. Clark, dean of the School of Public Health; Mark L. Wilson, associate professor of epidemiology (and moderator of the program); Richard Lempert, director of the Values and Society Program; and Sioban Harlow, associate director of the International Institute.

Suzanne White, medical director at Children's Hospital of Michigan Regional Poison Control Center and associate professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine. She is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Taskforce, and discusses the threats we face.

Matthew Boulton, state epidemiologist, Michigan Department of Community Health, and clinical associate professor of epidemiology, UM School of Public Health. In his role as the state's lead epidemiologist, Boulton has advocated for increased bioterrorism preparation, and he speaks about the tools public health can use to keep people safe from such things as anthrax attacks.

Henry D. Baier, UM associate vice president for facilities and operations and a master's graduate of the School of Public Health's environmental health sciences program, speaks about the country's response to bioterrorist threats, including the tension between what the public can tolerate, what the military expects, and what our regulations require.

Gilbert S. Omenn, UM executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of the U-M Health System, talks about the future of public health readiness. Omenn also has an appointment as a professor on the faculty of UM School of Public Health.

Printed from http://www.sph.umich.edu/news_events/webcasts.html on May 18, 2008