Richard Remigio, MPhil, MS, research coordinator at Urban Health Collaborative, will present at this Environmental and Occupational Health seminar.

Presented by UHC Core Leads

The UHC is proud to present Shannon Lynch, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor at Temple Health's Fox Chase Cancer Center. Her talk is entitled "High Dimensional Computing Approaches in Social Data and Potential Applications."

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.

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.

This Urban Health Collaborative research seminar will feature Hannah Lawman, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention, Get Healthy Philly, Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Dr. Lawman's work emphasizes multi-sectoral and population health approaches including changes to the built environment and policy approaches to chronic disease prevention, such as improving nutrition, physical activity, and access to smoke-free spaces.

Spatial Analysis with ArcGIS, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the final hands-on training introducing participants to ArcGIS tools that can be used to create spatial variables for public health research.

ArcGIS: Getting Data into Maps is the second in a three-part series of ArcGIS trainings designed to teach participants how to get tabular data containing latitudes and longitudes, street addresses, or other place names, into a format that can be used to create maps with ArcGIS. The training will also demonstrate how to link tabular data to existing spatial datasets.

The Urban Health Collaborative is proud to present Jason Corburn, PhD, MCP. His talk is entitled “Cities for Life: Transforming Urban Institution for Health Equity.” Dr. Corburn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, jointly appointed in the Department of City & Regional Planning and the School of Public Health. He directs Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, the joint Master of City Planning (MCP) and Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program and leads the Center for Global Healthy Cities.