Past Events
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Mar 15PHS Monday Seminar: Jeanne Ayers, RN, MPH- “A Systems Approach to Advancing Health Equity- The Key to a Healthy Wisconsin”
Jeanne Ayers, R.N. MPH, Senior Advisor of VoteSAFE Public Health a coalition of 10 public health organizations Previously served as the Wisconsin State Health Officer and Administrator of the Division of Public Health and Assistant Commissioner and Chief Health Equity Strategist for the Minnesota Department of Health. Learning Goals Introduce a systems approach to identify …
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Mar 8Philip M. Farrell Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Nora Connors, J.D., M.P.H.
Nora Connors, JD, MPH, is the Director of Federal Government Affairs at Novartis Summary Career Path and exploration of different roles/ways MPH foundation contributed Politics, Policy, and Public Health Bio Elenora (Nora) Connors has over 15 years of health care and public health experience in government, academia, and the private sector. She is currently serving …
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Mar 1PHS Monday Seminar: Abraham Flaxman, PhD- “The IHME COVID-19 Projection Model after a year of a pandemic”
Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington School of Medicine Abstract: In this seminar, I will share some of the methods and data that we have been using at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to project the global course of the COVID outbreak and …
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Feb 15PHS Monday Seminar: Sam Trejo, PhD- “Learning From Flint: The Health and Social Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on Educational Outcomes”
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs University of Wisconsin- Madison Abstract: In 2014, Flint, Michigan switched its municipal water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a cost saving measure. The corrosive river water was improperly treated, causing lead from aging pipes to leach into the city’s drinking water. As a result …
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Feb 8PHS Monday Seminar: Whitney Robinson, PhD- “Re-born: How COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement changed my scholarly life”
Summary: In this talk, I will reflect on how the past year has accelerated several trends in my work. My work has always centered on social determinants of ethnoracial disparities in health among Black American populations. Starting in the late 2010s, I began a program of research in gynecologic epidemiology that was grounded in Reproductive …
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Feb 2PHS Monday Seminar: Tyler VanderWeele, PhD- “Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value”
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Abstract: Sensitivity analysis is useful in assessing how robust an association is to potential unmeasured or uncontrolled confounding. This article introduces a new measure called the “E-value,” which is related to the evidence …
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Feb 1PHS Monday Seminar: Rebecca Myerson, MPH, PhD- “Finding the Missing Enrollees: The Impact of Personalized Assistance on Health Insurance Uptake”
Abstract: Health insurance coverage is an important determinant of well-being, but enrollment is not automatic. Selecting from the large number of available health insurance products, many of which are highly complex, may be a daunting task for many consumers. I present new evidence on the enrollment impacts of two approaches used by policymakers to assist …
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Dec 8Ajay Sethi in Assessing Your Holiday COVID Risk Q&A
On December 8 at 7 p.m. CST, Ajay Sethi, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Dominique Brossard, Professor and chair in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, will speak on and answer questions regarding assessing and communicating the risks of holiday gatherings during the pandemic. View the livestream here. A recording of the session …
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Dec 7PHS Monday Seminar: Marc Levine, PhD- The State of Black Milwaukee in National Perspective: Racial Inequality in the Nation’s Largest Metropolitan Areas
Abstract: At this moment of national reckoning, with cities across the country grappling with the state of racial injustice in their communities, it is important to have a solid base of comparative and historical data to guide actions and policies. This study aims to provide that comparative base, examining how Black communities in the nation’s …
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Nov 30PHS Monday Seminar: Anand Narayan, MD, PhD, “Controversies in Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines”
Assistant Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School Learning Goals: 1. Understand benefits and harms of mammographic screening 2. Characterize differences and similarities between breast cancer screening guidelines 3. Characterize racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer incidence Anand Narayan CV