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Assessing Exposure to Hurricanes and Other Tropical Storms for Epidemiological Research

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 640
- Everyone
G. Brooke Anderson, PhD, assistant professor of Epidemiology at Colorado State University, will present this Environmental and Occupational Health seminar.
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Utilizing Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology to Identify Populations for Health Services Research

Monday, January 9, 2017

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, 3215 Market Street, Room 719
- Everyone
Gabriel Tajeu, DrPH, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama, will give an overview of his current cardiovascular disease epidemiology research as well as his research in the area of the cost-effectiveness of antihypertensive medication.
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Research Seminar: Presented by UHC Pilot Funding Awardees

Friday, January 6, 2017

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Urban Health Collaborative 3600 Market Street, Room 709
- Everyone
The next UHC research seminar will feature presentations on UHC funded pilot projects in progress by Leah Schinasi, PhD, MSPH, Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, and Lee Pachter, DO. Topics include:

An investigation of associations between heat and infant mortality, and effect modification by greenness and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presented by PI Leah Schinasi, MSPH, PhD

Using Data Integration to Create a Profile of Violence Needs and Assets to Inform Solutions in the Latino Community of Eastern North Philadelphia
Presented by PI Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH

Intergenerational Associations between Adult Past Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Offspring Child Health Outcomes: The Philadelphia Urban ACE Study
Presented by PI Lee Pachter, DO, co-PI Felice Le-Scherban, PhD, MPH

To RSVP, please send an email to uhc@drexel.edu.
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The Price of Unhealthy Food Relative to Healthy Food - David Kern

Friday, December 16, 2016

2:45 PM-5:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
PhD Epidemiology student David Kern will present his thesis defense on 'The Price of Unhealthy Food Relative to Healthy Food and the Association with Diet Quality, Diabetes, and Insulin Resistance in a Multi-ethnic Population'
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The Child Supplemental Security Income Program and the Changing Safety Net

Friday, December 9, 2016

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

A.J. Drexel Autism Institute 3020 Market Street, Suite 501
- Everyone
David Wittenberg, PhD, director of Health Research at Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy, will summarize recent findings regarding state and county variations in the federal disability program Supplemental Security Income for children. The factors driving this variation are not well understood and have received limited study.
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Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar Series: Yan Ma, PhD

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics welcomes Yan Ma, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University. He will present a seminar on "The HCUP SID Imputation Project".
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Urban Health Collaborative Research Seminar: Heidi Grunwald

Friday, December 2, 2016

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The UHC is pleased to present Heidi E. Grunwald, PhD, Deputy Director of the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, Beasley School of Law, Temple University. Dr. Grunwald is a trained quantitative methodologist from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and Quantitative Methodology program and is responsible for the leadership, survey research methods and deliverables of the Institute. ISR has specialties in recruiting, surveying and tracing vulnerable and urban populations with high response rates. Her presentation is entitled "Building a City-Wide Survey Panel: Engaging Residents through Multiple Modes."
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The 2016 US Presidential Election: Implications for Public Health

Thursday, December 1, 2016

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

LeBow College of Business 3220 Market Street Room GHALL 031
- Everyone
View the Video
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Infant Mortality Memorial

Thursday, December 1, 2016

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Lobby
- Everyone
Drexel Preconception Peer Educators will be showcasing their posters on the causes of infant mortality, the impact and the prevention strategies employed by different campaigns and agencies. In addition, there will be a Infant Mortality Memorial display for participants to visualize the impact.
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Urban Health Collaborative Research Seminar: Alan Marshall

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The UHC is pleased to present Alan Marshall, PhD, lecturer for the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St. Andrews. Dr. Marshall's research is concerned with understanding and describing social and spatial inequalities in health focusing on how individual characteristics and contextual factors (from national to neighborhood) interact to influence health across the life course and particularly in later life. His talk is entitled "Developing neighborhood forecasts of demographic change and of populations in poor health: do the characteristics of place influence the choice of forecasting method and the error that we might expect?"
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