Stephanie L. Mazzucca-Ragan, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School, spoke Feb. 19 on "Moving evidence to impact: working with organizations to promote evidence-based practice." See here for a recording of the talk.
We are at a pivot point for public health. Although public health has been responsible for extraordinary gains in population health over the past two centuries, it finds itself facing a backlash in public esteem that threatens to undermine work the field has done, and that it can do in coming decades. There are many […]
Zachary Butzin-Dozier, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist in the Division of Biostatistics at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, spoke Feb. 27 on "Evaluating Long COVID through Targeted Machine Learning." See here for a recording of the talk.
Notes from March 5, 2025, Assembly
Elisabeth Stelson, PhD, MPH, MSW, spoke March 5 on "Advancing occupational vicarious trauma research to protect healthcare and social service workforces." See here for a recording of the talk.
Jaime Miranda, MD, MSc, PhD, professor and head of the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and International Distinguished Visiting Scholar, spoke March 11 on "Rethinking Chronic Disease: From Healthcare Services to Sustainable Well-Being." See here for a recording of the talk.
Sarah Moreland-Russell, PhD, MPH, an associate professor in the School of Public Health, spoke March 18 on “Power and possibility of policy: Implementation Science for promoting equitable and sustainable public health policy." See here for a recording of the talk.
Dana March Palmer, PhD, MPH, senior associate provost for academic programs, associate dean for doctoral education in public health, director of undergraduate studies in public health and an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, spoke March 19 on “Public Health Education for the Next Generation; Here and […]
Lindsey Filiatreau, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU Medicine, spoke March 19 on, “'What I know is that people don’t die from HIV, they die from stress:' Closing the mental health treatment gap for people living with HIV in the Global South." See here for a recording of […]
This discussion was March 27, 2025, in Cupples Hall I, Room 207, on the Danforth Campus. The problem of bad behavior At some instinctive level we all understand that health emerges from some combination of personal agency and choice, biology and genetic determinism, and the world we live in. And yet, this observation makes us, […]
Opeyemi Babajide, PhD MSc, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, spoke March 27 on "The Intersection of Perinatal Health, Migration and Social Determinants of Health." See here for a recording of the talk.
Gregory Phillips II, PhD, associate professor in the Departments of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern, spoke April 2 on “Engaging, Educating, and Empowering: A New Paradigm for Health Research and Evaluation with and for LGBTQ+ Communities.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD, professor and director of the Medical Cannabis Research Center at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, spoke April 3 on "New Directions in Cannabis and Overdose Prevention Research." See here for a recording of the talk.
Andrew Subica, PhD, an associate professor of social medicine, population & public health at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, and founding co-director for the U.S. Veterans Affairs Center for Pacific Islander Veterans Health, spoke April 8 on "Community Engaged Research to Address Health Disparities." See here for a recording of the talk.
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