Past Events

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The Future of Health Care Reform

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Stein Auditorium
- Everyone
Join the Dornsife School of Public Health for our next event in a series reflecting on key public health issues under our new administration. We invite all of our community and our partners throughout the region to engage in these critical conversations and to join us as we renew our commitment to protect and promote the health of the public.
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Urban Health Collaborative and EPI/BIO Joint Seminar: Planning for Health

Tuesday and Wednesday, May 2 & 3, 2017

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 751
- Everyone
The Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics are proud to Present Jana Hirsch, PhD who will talk on ‘Planning for Health: Constructing evidence for the built environment's influence on physical activity and health’. Jana Hirsch is a neighborhood researcher who is broadly trained in social epidemiology, environmental health and geography. Dr. Hirsch’s research utilizes longitudinal, multilevel, and spatial methods to examine association between built environments and health. She is currently an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Arnold School of Public Health in the University of South Carolina and a visiting researcher with the Center for Hip Health and Mobility at the University of British Columbia.
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2017 Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture: Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD

Thursday, April 27, 2017

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Stein Auditorium Corner of 33rd and Market St.
- Everyone
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, will present the 2017 Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture:
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Comparison of Futility Monitoring Guidelines Using Completed Phase III Oncology Trials

Thursday, April 27, 2017

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics welcomes Qiang Zhang, PhD, Senior Statistician, NRG Oncology Statistics and Data Management Center, who will present "Comparison of Futility Monitoring Guidelines Using Completed Phase III Oncology Trials."
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PhDSAG - Roundtable Conversations

Thursday, April 27, 2017

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 320
- Everyone
Leticia de Oliveira Cardoso, PhD, MPH, coordinator of Master and PhD programs in Epidemiology at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, will lead this Public Health Doctoral Student Advisory Group Roundtable Conversation. Dr. Cardoso’s academic background is in the fields of nutrition and epidemiology. Her post-doctoral research was supervised by Dornsife Dean Ana Diez Roux.
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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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