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EVENTS
2011 - 2012 SEMINARS: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 4 - 5:30 pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads Click here to view Dr. Blakely's presentation.Social and Neighbourhood Determinants of Health in New Zealand: Ethnic & Socioeconomic Trends in Mortality, Casual Explanations, & the Possible Role of Neighbourhoods
Dr. Blakely is Director of the Health Inequalities Research Programme at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, as well as research professor, epidemiologist, and public health medicine specialist. Dr. Blakely will talk about ethnic and scio-economic disparities and trends in mortality and health. Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4 - 5:30 pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads Click here to view Dr. Taveras' presentation.Accelerating the Adoption of Childhood Obesity Comparative Effectiveness Research Evidence Dr. Taveras is Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and Pediatrics in the Dept. of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, and is a pediatrician and health services researcher. Dr. Taveras was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholar. She also co-directs DACP's Obesity Prevention Program. Dr. Taveras will talk about the epidemiologic and health services research aspects of nutrition and physical activity as they affect child health. Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 4 - 5:30 pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads Click here to view Dr. Barnes' presentation.Quarantine and the Rigorously Anecdotal Science of Epidemiology in the Nineteenth Century Dr. Barnes teaches the history of medicine and public health in the Dept. of History & Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include the history of infectious disease, epidemiology, and public health; the Bacteriological Revolution and its effect on public health; 19th century European (esp. French) social and cultural history; cultural history of bodily knowledge and practices; history of disgust. Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 4 - 5:30 pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads Click here to view Dr. Jacob's presentation.Measuring the Cost and Effectiveness of Interpreter Services in the Health Care Setting Assoc. Professor & Assoc. Vice Chair for Health Services Research, Dept. of Medicine at the Univ. of WI School of Medicine and Public Health. Language barriers in health care are a large and growing problem in the US, which contribute to disparities in health care quality and outcomes in populations with limited English proficiency. While provision of adequate interpreter services has been shown to reduce these disparities, many health care organizations do not provide them, citing their cost. However, little is known about the true costs of providing these services or the costs of not providing them. In this presentation, Dr. Jacobs will describe what is known about the costs and the benefits of providing interpreter services, including data from a study in which her research team calculated the cost of providing interpreter services in a network of public hospitals and put them in the context of estimated costs for other modes of interpretation. Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 4 - 5:30 pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads Click here to view Dr. Barabas' presentation.Informed Consent: How the Public Learns about Congressional Votes on Health Care and Supports Incumbents Who Represent Constituent Preferences Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Florida State University Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 4 - 5:30 pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads The Central Role of the Brain in Stress and Adaptation: Impact of the Social Environment Alfred E. Mirsky Professor of Neuroscience, Rockefeller University; Director of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.
2010-2011 Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 4:00 - 5:30pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads High Seas, High Altitude, and High Cholesterol: Ancel Keys and the Evolution of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis, 1935-1955 Epidemiologists who study cardiovascular disease are well aware of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis and the controversy that surrounds it. Few, however, may be aware of the important work of Ancel Keys, a physiologist-turned-epidemiologist, who played a leading role in the development of the diet-heart hypothesis and championed the Mediterranean Diet as part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. Keys’ trajectory from biological oceanography through respiratory and nutritional physiology to CVD epidemiology is a remarkable story that highlights the fluid nature of the biomedical sciences at mid-century, the changing nature of human subject research, and the ambitious and multi-talented nature of one of the twentieth-century’s great polymaths. This talk focuses on two decades that were transformative for both Ancel Keys and for the development of CVD epidemiology and discusses the important relationship between the man and the emerging discipline. Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 4:00 - 5:30PM, 1655 SPH Crossroads TBA Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 4:00 - 5:30 PM, 1655 SPH Crossroads TBA
2010-2011 Food Insecurity, Health and Wellbeing and the Global Food Crisis Food insecurity occurs when individuals face unpredictable access to safe and nutritious foods. Although a common public health problem, food insecurity has rarely been a research priority among those studying population health. This has been changing in the face of the global recession. In this talk I will discuss the current global food insecurity situation and highlight studies we have carried out in East Africa examining the impact of food insecurity on social, physical and mental health. I then use data from our ongoing longitudinal study to examine the impact the 2008 global food crisis had on Ethiopian adolescents and specifically test several hypotheses promulgated in the popular media about who was most affected by the food crisis. Our results suggest that youth are not buffered from the negative impacts of the global food crisis. Our results also suggest that the patterns of vulnerability among Ethiopian youth differ considerably from those reported in popular media outlets. These data offer a cautionary tale to broad generalizations about who is being affected by the food crisis and suggest novel hypotheses and new research directions. 2009-2010 Perceived Social Isolation and Health* Global Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption (video) (slides) Innovative Interventions to Tackle Poverty: Child development outcomes from the 10-year follow-up of Mexico’s conditional cash transfer program* Thinking about the Brain: Neighborhoods and Neurons* Social Regulation of Gene Expression (video) (slides) The Vicious Cycle: Segregated Housing, Schools and Intergenerational Inequality (video) (slides) The Nature and Impact of Early Achievement Skills, Attention and Behavior Problems (video) (slides)
2008-2009 Major Depression and its Social Origins: Are We Poised for a New Social Psychiatry On Complex Systems Theory and Population Health The Health and Mental Health of Welfare Recipients-Implications for Public Policy Sleep and Disparities in Cardiovascular Risk Wealthier and taller: How can we explain socioeconomic inequalities in height in today's children in the UK? Stress and Depression Can be Deadly: New Perspectives on Aging Morbidity, and Mortality from Psychoneuroimmunology The Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials: Complexities, Patterns, and Paradoxes Alone in America Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in U.S. Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy, 1970-2005 Assets and Stress: Using the Housing Market to Explore Health Effects of Wealth Social Network Influences on Adolescent Obesity Speaking Truth to Power? The Influence of Policy Debate on High School Educational Outcomes in an Urban Public School Setting Epigenetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disease Susceptibility
2007-2008 Low Intensity Warfare and Life on the Run: What can Nomadic Herders from Northern Kenya Teach Us About Linking Context to Global Health Neighborhood Effects on Adult Health: Results from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey Education and Housing Segregation in the Twin Cities: Public Health Implications Paying for Performance: The Power of Incentivies Over Habits Psychobiological Processes Linking Psychosocial Factors with Disease Risk Human Development Indices For Income Groupings Does the Body Forget? Maybe - Maybe Not A Post-Genomic Surprise: The Molecular Reinscription of Race in Clinical Medicine and Forensitcs - with Some Significant Social and Political Implications The Impact of Family Planning Programs on the Health and Well-Being of US Women and Children, 1960-1980 The Influence of Media Frames of the Determints of Diabetes on Public Health Policy Opinions Spatial Dynamics of the Local Food and Recreation Environment: An Examination of Measurement and Effects of the Neighborhood Built Environment Novel Approaches to Understanding Environmental Determinants of Health Behaviors: Using Agent-Based Models to Study the Relation Between Spatial Access to Health Food Stores and Diet Under the Skin: Understanding the Links Between Socieconimic Status, Stress, Immune Function and Health Neighborhood Context and Youth Health Behavior Outcomes from Adolescents to Emerging Adulthood Health Risk Behaviors of Multiracial and Monoracial Young Adults The Influence of Black Ethnic Identity on Telephone-Administered Health Surveys Assessing the Impact of Expanded Newborn Screening in Michigan Cross-Cultural Competency, Patient-Provider Partnership, and Improving Health Outcomes for African Americans with Diabetes Viral Forecasting
2006-2007 What is the Relevant Risk? Reconciling 25 Years of Epidemiological Evidence on the Causes of Population Levels and Social Inequalities in CHD Dynamic Models of Ethnic and Economic Segregation Social Constraints on Developmental Resilience Account for Selection/Response Bias Using a Two-Phase Analysis Neighborhood Effects and Aging-Related Health Among Older African-Americans and Whites Multiple Dimensions of Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Africa Neuroimaging as Biomarker in Population-Based Studies Relationship of Frailty to Multimorbidity and Disability Schools, Neighborhoods, Peers, and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking Social Context and the Consequences of Disasters: A Mixed Methods Approach to Identifying Underlying Vulnerabilities and Capacities The Mother-Baby Study: Consequences of Maternal PTSD for Parenting and Infant Stress Regulation Among African-American Women The Geography of Opportunity: Metropolitan Racial Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, and Individual Birth Weight* Socio-economic Position, Air Pollution and Infant Mortality in the United States Mutlilevel Determinants of Pneumococcal Carriage: Implications for Population Vaccination County-level Structural and Environmental Factors that Contribute to Population Health and Health Disparities Neighborhood Context and Youth Health Behavior Outcomes from Adolescent to Emerging Adulthood 2005-2006 Social Determinants, Latent Infection, and Cognitive Decline Nonstandard Work and Health Among American Women Putting Knowledge to Work: Shortcomings of a Deterministic Account of the Role of Science in Medicine The Health Effects of Civil Rights Legislation Cardiovascular Disease in the Hispanic Migration: Modeling Race and Class Effects Across Borders Marginal Structural Models for Causal Inference from Longitudinal Studies: Workshop Developing Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Models for Analyzing Cortisol Circadian Rhythm Using Bayesian Framework: Application to a Depression Study The Health Effects of Civil Rights Legislation Genomics, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Population health: Creating New Bridges and Sharing Resources The Politics of Sex Research: Political Controversy and the Supression of Scientific Agendas Gender, Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Mortality A Possible Decline in Life Expectancy in the US in the 21st Century Understanding the SES Gradient in Health: The Causal Impact of Education on Mortality Stigma and Smoking: Misguided Strategy of Public Health Achievement?
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