Our Healthy Weight Pod will share brief presentations on new and ongoing work across several faculty members. These “flash talks” will be followed by a discussion about where this work may lead in the future.
Division: Epidemiology & Community Health
Community-Engaged, Reproductive Health Research Within the Carceral System–Reflections and Lessons Learned
In this webinar, panelists will discuss their participation in community-engaged research projects at the intersection of the criminal legal system and reproductive health.
Shaping the Future of Public Health: Make Your Voice Heard
In this session, participants will learn how to develop a unique value proposition for their program and effectively communicate about an idea, program, or project by crafting a personal and compelling narrative that illustrates the journey from idea to future impact.
#OwntheOutcome: Holding Companies Accountable for Health
How might public health hold companies accountable for how their products affect human health? Thomas points to new arguments for public health and new coalitions that might yield greater human health.
Disparities in Pediatric Leukemia: From Pre-Diagnosis to Survival
This seminar will explore disparities along the cancer continuum, discuss potential underlying mechanisms, and share ongoing work characterizing the impact of socioeconomic status on outcome.
Bridging the Gap: Understanding the Needs of Ovarian Cancer Survivors
Comprehensively understanding how the prevalence and severity of side effects, unmet needs, and barriers to supportive care affect quality of life in diverse ovarian cancer survivors remains a research gap and priority.
Youth Mental Health in the 21st Century: An Epidemiological Approach to Evaluating the Role of Social Media and Digital Technology
In this seminar, Dr. Keyes will discuss what we know about social media, digital technology, and adolescent depression, and most importantly for epidemiologists, how we know what we know.
Threats to Equity: Race and Ethnicity Communication Practices and Journal Standards across Health Disciplines
This talk will cover the state of practice for communicating race and ethnicity in multiple health disciplines, how current communication practice threatens both scientific rigor and equity, and the possible actions at the individual and structural level we can take to address these issues.
Firearm Injury in the United States: Facts, Myths, and a Public Health Path Forward
Dr. Rebecca Cunningham is one of the nation’s leading experts on issues related to firearm injury prevention.
Three Ways of Looking at Black/White Mortality Differences in the United States
This talk argues that social science research has three families of strategy for making sense of the size of mortality disparities and provides new empirical results in each vein that collectively aim to put demographic measurement onto a more human footing.
Late Effects of Therapy among Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Leveraging “Big Data” to Stratify Risk
Dr. Cindy Im will discuss potential opportunities to facilitate precision survivorship, leveraging large epidemiological datasets, statistical/machine learning-based prediction modeling, and genetics to improve late effects clinical risk stratification.
The Intersection Between Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology
Dr. St. Peter will be discussing the evolution of pharmacoepidemiology and examples of pharmacoepidemiology research in the study of drugs used in persons with kidney disease.
