Past Events
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Nov 22PHS Monday Seminar: Marguerite Burns, PhD “Providing Medicaid Coverage for Adults Leaving Prison: Impacts on Health Care Use, Employment, and Reincarceration”
Associate Professor Department of Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Nov 17PHS Graduate Program Student Seminar: Maria Schletzbaum, “Health Services Use Among Young Adults with Lupus”
Event held virtually via Zoom. Please contact mgombar@wisc.edu for Zoom information.
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Nov 15PHS Monday Seminar: Frank E Harrell Jr, PhD “Estimating Rather than Checking Predictor Transformations, and the Futility of Variable Selection”
Professor of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Abstract I will explain why statistical inference is distorted by trying different transformations of predictor variables in regression, and show the value of flexibly estimating such transformations with honesty about the number of parameters involved, using regression splines. Then I’ll address the impossible task of empirically selecting …
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Nov 10PHS Graduate Program Student Seminar: Sarah Luongo, “A Comparison of Statistical Methods to Analyze the Association between Exposure to an Environmental Mixture and C-reactive Protein Levels in NHANES”
Event held virtually via Zoom. Please contact mgombar@wisc.edu for Zoom information.
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Nov 8PHS Monday Seminar: Sebastian Tello-Trillo, PhD “Losing insurance and behavioral healthcare: Evidence from a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment”
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy University of Virginia Affiliate, National Bureau of Economic Research Abstract We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health – defined as mental health disorder (MHD) and substance use disorder (SUD) – community hospitalizations in the United States. Such …
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Nov 3PHS Graduate Program Student Seminar: Yuexuan Xu, “Effect of Pathway-specific Polygenic Risk Scores for Alzheimer’s Disease on Rate of Change in Cognitive Function and AD-related Biomarkers among Asymptomatic Individuals”
Event held virtually via Zoom. Please contact mgombar@wisc.edu for Zoom information.
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Nov 1PHS Monday Seminar: Hannah Kirking, MD “The Importance of Field Epidemiology and How it Is Used to Inform the COVID-19 Pandemic Response”
Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Viral Diseases, Respiratory Virus Branch U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Summary This presentation will provide an overview of how CDC works with state and local health departments to rapidly answer important and timely epidemiologic questions related to COVID-19/SARS-Cov-2 and support the overall public health response. I will review the …
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Oct 27PHS Graduate Program Student Seminar: Dian Luo, “Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization for Medicare Beneficiaries”
Event held virtually via Zoom. Please contact mgombar@wisc.edu for Zoom information.
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Oct 25PHS Monday Seminar: Abra Vigna, PhD “From data to action: How rigorous equity-focused evaluation can lead to the redistribution of resources in a case study of the 2019 Behavioral Health Gaps Analysis of Wisconsin”
Action Researcher and Evaluator Evaluation Research Workgroup Population Health Institute University of Wisconsin–Madison Summary In this talk we’ll review the development, implementation, and impacts of the 2019 gaps analysis of the Wisconsin behavioral health system. Bio Abra Vigna, Ph.D. is an Action Researcher and Evaluator with the Evaluation Research workgroup. Dr. Vigna has over a decade of …
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Oct 20PHS Graduate Program Student Seminar: KJ Hansmann, “Modifiable Community-level Risk Factors for Limited Mobility and Health Disparities after Driving Cessation”
Event held virtually via Zoom. Please contact mgombar@wisc.edu for Zoom information.