Past Events
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Jan 26PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Rudolph Johnson, PhD with WI Lab of HygienePHS WARF Room 726
Title: The Sentinel Laboratory Library to Improve Quality of Life in Wisconsin Bio: With over two decades of experience in analytical chemistry, forensic toxicology, and public health, Rudy Johnson has dedicated his career to advancing scientific innovation and applying research to address critical challenges in emergency response, toxicology, and military exposure assessment. His expertise spans leadership in …
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Dec 8PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Nicholas Mark, PhDBio: Dr. Nicholas Mark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. His primary research agenda is focused on understanding how social policy and contextual stressors influence health and fertility. He develops and employs novel methodology to examine the effects of policies, environments, and events on family outcomes, with emphasis on variation by race/ethnicity and …
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Dec 1PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Jennifer Kates, Senior VP; Director of Global & Public Health Policy, KFFZoom & PHS WARF Room 726
Title: The Changing Landscape of Global Health Abstract: Starting in January of 2025, the Trump administration began to institute several fundamental changes to its global health response which have significantly altered the larger global health landscape. This presentation will review these changes, discuss their impacts, and identify issues going forward. Bio: Dr. Jennifer Kates is senior vice …
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Nov 24PHS Monday Seminars Featuring Christian Koepfli, PhDWARF Room 726
Title: Novel Tools to Diagnose, Understand, and Combat Malaria Bio: Research in our lab uses molecular tools to better understand the epidemiology of malaria and other infectious diseases. We constantly develop novel laboratory methods to diagnose, quantify and genotype parasites and their transmission stages, and apply them to large population-based surveys. We aim to contribute to …
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Nov 19POPHLTH 820 – All-Student Town Hall
WARF Room 726
The PHS Town Hall is coming up on Wednesday, November 19th from 12-1pm in WARF 726. We will meet to talk about PHS, graduate school and the graduate experience, and address any comments/concerns students may have.
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Nov 17PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Alison Cohen, PhD, MPHVirtual Via Zoom
Topic: Community-based participatory research for health equity Bio: Dr. Cohen is an epidemiologist who does community-driven, policy-relevant applied epidemiology and public health research. She studies social and environmental determinants of health, and possible interventions to address these determinants. She is also involved in patient-led and patient-driven research on Long COVID. In addition to my primary appointment …
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Nov 12PHS 820 Graduate Research Seminar Featuring Yingying ZhengPHS WARF Room 726
Abstract DL-Based Prediction of MCI-to-AD Conversion: Systematic review and meta-analysis, Model Applications, and Future Directions Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive decline leading to dementia.(1) For effective intervention, it is essential to detect patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) at high risk of progression to AD.(2) Physicians first assess …
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Nov 10PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Ryan Westergaard, PhD, MPHPHS WARF Room 726
Topic: Applied Population Health Practice and Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Response to Viral Hemorrhagic Fever in Rwanda Abstract: In September 2024, the Rwanda Ministry of Health announced the country’s first ever outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease, after a cluster of health care workers became ill at two of the largest hospitals in Kigali. The national response …
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Nov 741st Annual Rankin-Skatrud Memorial Lecture Featuring Markus Amann, PhDMSC Room 6225
Title: “LOOKING BEYOND THE HEART: REFLEX-MEDIATED IMPAIRMENTS IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE” Bio: Dr. Amann is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Theodore H. Stanley Presidential Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology, and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. His research focuses on the neural control of the circulation and breathing, and the etiology …
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Nov 6Hot Topics in Public Health
HSLC - Room 1335
20 Years of Transformation: Public Health at the School of Medicine and Public Health Nov. 6 from 5:30-7 p.m. in Health Sciences Learning Center Room 1335 This symposium will provide a look into the past 20 years of integrating Medicine and Public Health and a glance into what the future holds. In November of 2005, …