Past Events

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Fixing Reimbursements: How We Pay Physicians

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 132hone is tedious!
- Everyone
Miriam Laugesen, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, will speak about fixing medical prices and how we pay physicians. Dr. Laugesen is a past recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. She is also the author of Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians are Paid, (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2016). Fixing Medical Prices goes to the heart of the U.S. medical pricing process: to a largely unknown yet influential committee of medical organizations affiliated with the American Medical Association that advises Medicare.
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Pursuing Population Health: From Patients to Public Policy

Thursday, April 20, 2017

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 751
- Everyone
Public Health in Action is proud to host Valerie Arkoosh, MD, MPH, chair of Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, who will discuss how her medical and public health background affects public policy decision and how she made the transition from medicine to running for office. The talk will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Arkoosh.
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PhDSAG - Lunch & Research

Thursday and Friday, April 20 & 21, 2017

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 320
- Everyone
Evelyn Arana, 5th year DrPH candidate in the Department of Community Health and Prevention will be presenting her NIH funded dissertation with fellow doctoral students. Her dissertation explores racial/ethnic disparities in mammograms among women with intellectual disabilities in Philadelphia.
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MCH Working Group and Student Organization Meeting

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 740
- Everyone
This will be a combined meeting for the MCH Working Group and the MCH Student Organization. All are welcome. Stay tuned for additional event details.
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Urban Health Collaborative Invited Speaker: Larry Cohen

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 132
- Everyone
The Urban Health Collaborative is proud to host Larry Cohen, MSW, who will present Pushing Back and Pushing Forward: The Critical Importance of Prevention and Equity for Urban Health.
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MCH Journal Club: Endometriosis: A Silent Barrier to Reproductive Health

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
Tamika Rowe, first year MPH student in the Department of Health Management & Policy, will discuss the lack of information and misconceptions of endometriosis and the public health impacts of this disease, in this journal club. RSVP to receive the readings.
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Stairway to Success: Learning the steps that will lead you to the top

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

Behrakis Grand Hall
- Undergraduate Students
- Graduate Students
Are you nervous about networking? Do you have the skills to network with alumni or professionals?
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Research and Learning with Geographic Data: Leveraging Philadelphia Focused and National Data

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

Urban Health Collaborative Dornsife School of Public Health Drexel University 3600 Market St., 7th Fl., Room 709 Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Everyone
Join the Urban Health Collaborative (UHC) for an interactive data application workshop for students and staff. The UHC has compiled data related to health determinants and health outcomes for the greater Philadelphia region.
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Urban Health Collaborative and EPI/BIO Joint Seminar: At the Intersection of Place, Race, and Health

Monday, April 17, 2017

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics are proud to Present Sharrelle Barber, PhD, MPH who will talk on ‘At the Intersection of Place, Race, and Health: Examining Fundamental Causes of Racial Health Inequalities in the United States and Brazil’. Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH is currently a postdoctoral research fellow with the Urban Health Collaborative at the Dornsife School of Public Health. Her current research interests involve understanding the role of structural racism, including concentrated economic disadvantage and racial residential segregation, in shaping cardiovascular disease risk and onset among African Americans with a particular focus on residential environments in the Southern United States.
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2017 FIRE Fellowship Information Session

Monday, April 17, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall Collaboratory
- Graduate Students
Join the Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST) and FIRE Fellowship Alumni for an informational session on this paid ten-week summer intensive training program. Dr. Jennifer Taylor and Andrea Davis from the Center for FIRST will present various educational opportunities and application criteria. Applications are due Friday, April 21.
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