Past Events
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Sep 15
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Sep 13PHS Monday Seminar: Kristen Malecki, PhD, MPH: “Introduction and Updates from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin: An Infrastructure for Population Health Sciences at UW Madison”
Director, The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) Director, The Center for Urban Population Health (CUPH) Associate Professor Department of Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin- Madison Abstract: Goals of the Presentation: The SHOW cohort is available for applied public health, research and education. The goals of this presentation will be to highlight key findings …
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Sep 8
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May 3PHS Monday Seminar: Marin Schweizer, PhD “Study Designs to Evaluate Interventions to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections (and Shark Attacks).”
Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa Abstract Describe quasi-experimental studies and stepped wedge cluster randomized trials. Evaluate advantages and disadvantages of each study design. Recall how these designs can be utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent healthcare-associated infections, such as surgical site infections and bloodstream …
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Apr 26PHS Monday Seminar: Elizabeth Hennessy, PhD- “Introducing HEAL: Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine”
Associate Professor History; History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies UW–Madison Lead Coordinator of the Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine, part of the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative Abstract This seminar will introduce the Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine …
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Apr 19PHS Monday Seminar: Burcu Darst, PhD: “Genetic risk of prostate cancer across men from multi-ancestry populations”
Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Genetic Epidemiology Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Abstract Prostate cancer represents one of the largest health disparities in the US, with men of African ancestry having the highest incidence and mortality rates. While the causes of this disparity have been largely unknown, recent evidence suggests that germline genetics …
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Apr 12PHS Monday Seminar: Christine Durrance, PhD- “Punitive Prenatal Substance Use Policies and Prenatal Care”
Associate Professor La Follette School of Public Affairs University of Wisconsin–Madison Abstract The U.S. is facing a substance use crisis. The severity of the crisis has increased over time as evidenced by increases in drug overdose mortality, particularly opioid overdose mortality. Between 1999 and 2017, the drug and opioid overdose mortality rate increased 256 and …
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Apr 5PHS Monday Seminar: Malia Jones, PhD, MPH “Dear Pandemic: lessons learned on the social media COVID-19 misinformation frontlines”
Associate Scientist in Health Geography University of Wisconsin- Madison Applied Population Laboratory Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Dear Pandemic Description: In this talk, Dr. Jones will discuss the origins, guiding principles, and mission of the science communication platform, Dear Pandemic. She will also discuss the origins and challenges of the “infodemic”–a WHO term for the overwhelming amount …
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Mar 29PHS Monday Seminar: Coleman Drake, PhD- “Zero-Price Effects in Health Insurance: Evidence from Colorado”
Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management Abstract The Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credit subsidies provide millions of eligible enrollees with the option to purchase zero-premium health insurance plans, but millions more do not have this option. What difference does a premium of zero make, …
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Mar 22PHS Monday Seminar: R. Alta Charo, J.D. “Whatever Happened to Genome Editing?”
Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor Emerita of Law & Bioethics at the UW Law School, and the inaugural David A. Hamburg Distinguished Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Abstract In the five years BP (before pandemic), one of the hottest debates concerned the scientific and policy future of genome editing, particularly its …