Past Events

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Venues and Risk Networks: Contexts of Substance Use and HIV among High Risk Women in Tijuana, Mexico

Monday, February 27, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 320
- Everyone
Brooke West, PhD, an assistant professor in the Division of Global Public Health and the Department of Sociology at the University of California San Diego will be presenting on “Venues and Risk Networks: Contexts of Substance Use and HIV among High Risk Women in Tijuana, Mexico” at this Community Health and Prevention seminar. As a medical sociologist, her research focuses on the social determinants of HIV/STI, substance use and reproductive health among marginalized populations. Dr. West’s current work examines how physical and network characteristics of venues shape substance use and HIV/STI transmission among female sex workers and injectors in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Mapping Community Assets with WebGIS

Friday, February 24, 2017

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Hagerty Library, Room L33
- Everyone
Drexel GIS Users Group presents Neville Vakharia, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, who will talk about using WebGIS tools to map community assets. The MuseumStat tool he developed helps connect museums to communities.
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Dynamic Prediction for Multiple Repeated Measures and Event Time Data

Thursday, February 23, 2017

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics welcomes Sheng Luo, PhD, tenured associate professor at The University Texas Health Science Center at Houston, who will present “Dynamic Prediction for Multiple Repeated Measures and Event Time Data: an Application to Neurodegenerative Disorders”.
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Dynamic Prediction for Multiple Repeated Measures and Event Time Data

Thursday, February 23, 2017

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics welcomes Sheng Luo, PhD, Associate Professor in Department of Biostatistics at The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health who will present: Dynamic Prediction for Multiple Repeated Measures and Event Time Data: an Application to Neurodegenerative Disorders
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Integrating Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics welcomes Hwanhee Hong, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who will present “Integrating Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research”.
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Food for Thought: Diet and Health Disparities in Vulnerable Populations

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 320
- Everyone
Cindy Leung, ScD, MPH, a nutrition epidemiologist in the Center for Health and Community in the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine will be presenting on “Food for Thought: Diet and Health Disparities in Vulnerable Populations” at this Community Health and Prevention seminar. Dr. Leung’s current research, supported by an NIH Career Development Award, focuses on the influence of household food insecurity on weight gain through mechanisms of psychological distress and cognitive decision-making processes. Another theme of Dr. Leung’s research is using specific evidence to strengthen the nutritional impact of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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Doctoral Students Advisory Group (DSAG) "Lunch & Research"

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 740
- Graduate Students
Our next "Lunch & Research" event presenter will be Salini Mohanty. Ms. Mohanty is a 4th-year doctoral student in the Community Health and Prevention department. Her dissertation focuses on vaccine hesitancy in the United States—particularly examining how pediatricians and their practices respond to parental vaccine hesitancy.
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Alcohol-Related Disparities: Investigating Conditional Relationships

Monday, February 20, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 320
- Everyone
Paul Gilbert, PhD, ScM, an assistant professor in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa, College of Public Health will be presenting on “Alcohol-Related Disparities: Investigating Conditional Relationships for a Better Understanding of Risk” at this Community Health and Prevention seminar. Dr. Gilbert conducts research to understand and address alcohol-related disparities. He is particularly interested in the ways that gender, race/ethnicity and sexual orientation shape drinking patterns, risk of alcohol use disorders, and utilization of treatment services. A secondary line of research focuses on improving the health of immigrant Latino communities in non-traditional migration destinations through participatory, action-oriented research.
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Ambient Temperature and Crime Events in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: EOH Research Seminar

Monday, February 20, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
Leah Schinasi, PhD, assistant research professor in Environmental and Occupational Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, will present this seminar on time series analysis of associations between ambient temperatures and rates of crimes, including robbery, disorderly conduct, and violent crime in Philadelphia, PA.
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Safe Sex Kit Campaign

Thursday, February 16, 2017

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Lobby
- Everyone
Drexel Preconception Peer Educators will host a Safe Sex Kit Campaign, which aims to distribute safe sex kits in order to increase awareness about condom usage to prevent unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.
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