SPH Assembly – January 2025
Umrath Lounge, Umrath Hall St. Louis, Missouri, United StatesNotes from Jan. 15, 2025, Assembly
Notes from Jan. 15, 2025, Assembly
Daniel Zhao, PhD, associate dean for research and Presidential Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Hudson College of Public Health, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences, spoke Jan. 23, 2025, on “Statistical Analysis of Family Studies with Kinship Matrices: Applications to the Strong Heart Family Study.” See here for a recording of the […]
Building a healthier world starts with how we communicate the ideas of public health. When we speak, does the public listen? Or do we sometimes communicate in ways that can cause the public to tune us out? We aspire to moral clarity in what we say and do. But moral clarity can tip into scolding […]
Massy Mutumba, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, spoke Jan. 30, 2025, on "Promoting Mental Health and Resilience Among Adolescents: School-Based Strategies and Innovations." See here for a recording of the talk.
Mengmeng Ji, PhD, an instructor in the Division of Public Health Sciences at WashU Medicine, spoke Feb. 4, 2025, on "Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Public Health: Applications in Obesity Research." See here for a recording of the talk.
Carrie Breton, ScD, MPH, a professor of population and public health sciences and director of the Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities at the University of Southern California, spoke Feb. 5, 2025, on the "Impact of the prenatal environment and stress on child health and biology." […]
Katherine Dowdell, PhD, MS, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow in biology at the University of Texas at Austin, spoke Feb. 6, 2025, on "Opportunistic pathogens in municipal drinking water: Combating a threat to public health." See here for a recording of the talk.