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  • EPI & BIOSTAT Research Seminar "Surveillance for Notifiable Conditions in Philadelphia"

    Wednesday, February 18, 2015

    12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Nesbitt Hall, Room 719, 3215 Market Street Philadelphia, PA

    • Current Students
    • Faculty
    • Staff
    • Graduate Students

    Speaker: Claire Newbern, PhD, MPH, Senior Epidemiology Manager at Department of Public Health Division of Disease Control Epidemiology Unit

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  • Optimizing the HIV Care Continuum in a Public Health Setting using Health System Navigators

    Wednesday, February 11, 2015

    4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Nesbitt Hall, Ruth Auditorium 3215 Market Street

    • Graduate Students
    • Prospective Students
    • Alumni

    Speaker: Helena Kwakwa, MD, MPH. Dr. Kwakwa is a physician specializing in HIV medicine currently serving as Director of HIV Clinical Services for the Philadelphia Health Department. 
    Her particular areas of interest and research include HIV in women, HIV in the Black community, and access to care for the HIV-positive. Having grown up in Ghana, she also has an interest in issues relating to HIV in the developing world, and HIV in the US immigrant population.
    Dr. Kwakwa is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and Yale University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

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  • School of Public Health "Ladder to Success" Event

    Wednesday, January 28, 2015

    5:30 PM-8:30 PM

    Behrakis Grand Hall

    • Undergraduate Students
    • Graduate Students

         Are you nervous about networking? Do you have the skills to network with alumni or professionals? Well, you’re in luck! The School of Public Health is hosting a career development event designed to teach and introduce skills on networking, negotiating, interviewing, and office etiquette.

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  • MCH Journal Club Meeting: "Perceptions of Prenatal Care Experiences among African American Women"

    Wednesday, January 28, 2015

    2:15 PM-3:15 PM

    7th floor seminar room, Room 719, Nesbitt Hall

    • Undergraduate Students
    • Graduate Students

    Please join us for any of our upcoming meetings:

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  • “Talking About Cancer: A Double-Edged Sword” - POSTPONED

    Monday, January 26, 2015

    4:00 PM-5:00 PM

    Nesbitt Hall Room 132

    • Undergraduate Students
    • Graduate Students
    • Faculty
    POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER
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  • Behavioral and Contextual Risk Factors for HIV Infection Across Migration Phases

    Thursday, January 22, 2015

    12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Nesbitt, 7th Floor Seminar Room

    • Undergraduate Students
    • Graduate Students
    • Faculty
    • Staff
    "Behavioral and Contextual Risk Factors for HIV Infection Across Migration Phases: The Case of Mexican Migrants" 
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  • School of Public Health Department Reviews

    Wednesday, January 21, 2015

    2:00 PM-4:30 PM

    Nesbitt Hall 1st Floor, Computer Lab

    • Graduate Students
    The Department Review Sessions are designed to provide 1st year MPH students with information about each department including the types of CBMP projects and careers of alumni.  In addition, the department will discuss their course offerings and other pertinent information. Each session will end with 2nd year students discussing their experience in the concentrations.
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  • EPI & BIOSTAT Research Seminar "Uneducated Guesses: mistreating missing data"

    Wednesday, January 21, 2015

    12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Nesbitt Hall, Room 719, 3215 Market Street Philadelphia, PA

    • Current Students
    • Faculty
    • Staff
    • Graduate Students

    Title: “Uneducated Guesses: examples of how mistreating missing data yields to misguided policies” featuring speaker Howard Wainer, PhD, MA

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  • CHP Forum "Assessing The Geographic Coverage and Spatial Clustering of Illicit Drug Users"

    Tuesday and Wednesday, January 20 & 21, 2015

    12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Nesbitt Hall, Room 740

    • Everyone

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  • "The Philadelphia Measles Epidemic of 1991: Lesson from the Past or Prologue to the Future"

    Wednesday, January 14, 2015

    4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Nesbitt Hall, Ruth Auditorium 3215 Market Street

    • Everyone

    Grand Rounds Title: "The Philadelphia Measles Epidemic of 1991: Lesson from the Past or Prologue to the Future"

    The measles epidemic of 1991 in Philadelphia was one of the worst in the city's history: 1,400 people were infected and 9 died in a few months. The epidemic centered on two fundamentalist churches, Faith Tabernacle and First-Century Gospel, which refused vaccines as well as medical care for their children. We will discuss the response of the city's courts in trying to balance the rights of individuals to express their religious beliefs and the rights of the public to be free of potentially deadly diseases.

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