Past Events
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Mar 9Philip Farrell Distinguished Alumni lecture 2020- Natasha Stout, PhD: Using population modeling to fill evidence gaps in breast cancer prevention and control: Insights from two collaborations
Assistant Professor Department of Population Medicine Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Summary: Breast cancer screening guidelines continue to spark controversy in part due to lingering uncertainty about the effectiveness of mammography at reducing breast cancer mortality. The CISNET consortium is an NCI-funded collaboration of independent groups formed to use modeling methods …
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Mar 2PHS Monday Seminar- Paul Florsheim, PhD: Young Fathers Across the Transition to Parenthood: A Public Health Perspective and Proposal
Professor of Public Health Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Abstract: Fathers’ psychological well-being and interpersonal behavior are vital to family stability and child health. When fathers do not function well as partners and parents, their children and partners suffer the consequences. On the other hand, when fathers are supportive of …
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Feb 24PHS Monday Seminar- David Riemer, JD: Why a New Deal 3.0 Matters so Much for Health
Senior Fellow Community Advocates Public Policy Institute and Author of Putting Government In Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0 Abstract Public health experts and policymakers have known for over 150 years that reforms outside the health care system can do more to boost health outcomes than improving the delivery of medical care …
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Feb 17PHS Monday Seminar- Colter Mitchell, PhD: Biosocial Approaches to Examining Health Inequalities
Research Assistant Professor Population Studies Center Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Abstract Measures of social disadvantage such as poverty, neighborhood violence, and parental incarceration have well documented health and behavioral consequences for children, which can even reach into adulthood leading to health inequalities. Social disadvantage likely operates through both social and biological mechanisms; …
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Feb 10PHS Monday Seminar- Xi Chen, PhD: Gender Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Healthcare Utilization: New Insights from Healthcare Data in China
Assistant Professor of Public Health Institution for Social and Policy Studies Yale University Abstract Despite continuing debate about the impact of retirement on healthcare utilization, there has been mixed evidence. Understanding this relationship is important in considering the full costs of policies to increase the age of retirement, as countries such as China are considering. …
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Feb 3PHS Monday Seminar- Ian Pray, PhD, MPH: Early response to a multi-state outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (evali) — Wisconsin, 2019
Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wisconsin Department of Health Services Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health Abstract During July 2019, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) was alerted to a series of severe respiratory illnesses among previously healthy teenagers who all reported using e-cigarette products, or vaping, prior to …
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Jan 27PHS Monday Seminar- Peggy Honein, PhD, MPH: Understanding the Impact of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on Mothers and Babies
Director, Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Abstract Opioid exposure during pregnancy has been linked to some negative health effects for both mothers and their babies, including neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). More than 26,000 babies were diagnosed with NAS …