Past Events
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Feb 19PHS 820 Graduate Research Seminar Featuring Eugene Kahng
PHS WARF 726
Title: Sleep Apnea and Weight Trajectory
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Feb 17PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Rebecca Myerson, PhD, MPHPHS WARF Room 726
Title: “Navigating Medicaid: Experimental Evidence on Administrative Burden and Coverage Loss” Abstract: Millions of people lose access to safety-net programs each year because they do not complete required administrative processes. In a field experiment, we tested whether outreach providing help increased successful renewal of Medicaid coverage. Pre-recorded calls offering free, one-on-one assistance from health insurance navigators …
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Feb 14PHS Welcome Day Seminar, Phillip Farrell Distinguished Alumni, Christopher Seplaki, PhD, University of RochesterHSLC - Room 1345
The Philip Farrell Distinguished Alumni speaker, Christopher (Chris) Seplaki, Associate Professor from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry will be speaking on “Two perspectives on the study of environment and health: contrasting mechanisms and methods.” Dr. Seplaki’s Research Interests: Epidemiology of Aging: Physical and mental health in later life, mechanisms of vulnerability …
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Feb 12PHS 820 Graduate Research Seminar Featuring Hideko EngelPHS WARF 726
Title: Preliminary Findings of Maternal Alcohol Consumption During Breastfeeding from SEED Study
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Feb 3PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Leonelo Bautista, MD, MPH, DrPHWARF Room 726
Dengue Dynamics in the Dominican Republic: Addressing Surveillance Failures Abstract: Cases of dengue fever have soared in Latin America in the last decade. The increase is mostly attributed to climate change; however, other factors have also played an important role. In this talk, I will describe the behavior of dengue in the Dominican Republic over the …
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Dec 16PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Kevin Grebielski and Bradley Motl from the WI Department of Justice
WARF Room 726
Title: Environmental Law at the Wisconsin Department of Justice Bios: Kevin Grzebielski is the Unit Director of the Public Protection Unit at the Wisconsin Department of Justice. The Public Protection Unit enforces the laws that protect consumers and the state’s natural resources. Prior to joining DOJ, Kevin clerked for a US district judge in New …
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Dec 11
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Dec 9PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Nikhil Khankari, PhD, MPH
Title: “Causal inference using Mendelian randomization: potential issues and novel applications” Key takeaways: · Causal interpretation of Mendelian randomization (MR) studies requires a critical appraisal of the MR assumptions and an understanding of the causal effect being estimated. · Proxying drug effects using the MR framework may be useful first step towards identifying new repurposing …
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Dec 4
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Dec 2PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Aroon Hingorani, PhD, FRCP, FESC, FMedSciVia Zoom
Title: Performance of polygenic risk scores in screening, prediction and population risk stratification Abstract: A polygenic risk score represents the weighted sum of independent DNA sequence variants present in an individual’s genome that are associated with the risk of a particular disease. The increasing range and scale of genome wide association studies over the past …