Conference Highlight

January 14, 2019

Conference Report: What Is It Good For? Using Epigenetics to Understand Health Disparities

Belinda Needham

Can social epigenomics help us understand health disparities? In this report from our 2018 conference, Belinda Needham shares new studies underway to answer this question.

January 7, 2019

Conference Report: Using Evidence to Inform Immigration Policy

Erin Hagan

Erin Hagan

Research on the relationship between immigration policy and population health, well-being, and equity impacts is important and relevant, according to our 2018 Conference panel. Read more in this conference report from Erin Hagan.

December 17, 2018

Conference Report: Is the Microbiome a New Era of Population Health?

Jennifer Dowd

Jennifer Dowd

Will the microbiome usher in a new era of “poop-ulation health?” Read this conference report from Jennifer Dowd.

December 10, 2018

Conference Report: Politics, Population Health, and (a Lack of) Progress

David Warner

David Warner

What’s holding back our progress in population and public health? First we need a healthy democracy and attention to state-level policies that create disparities. David Warner filed this report from our October 2018 Population Health Conference.

November 19, 2018

Conference Report: Landing upon the Body: Racism as Violence in the US

Michael H Esposito

Michael H Esposito

Repeated acts of violence, economic disparities, and structural racism can affect the health and well-being of communities. Mike Esposito filed this 2018 conference report focusing on Black and other communities of color.

November 12, 2018

Conference Report: Technological Innovations–Curbing Our Enthusiasm

Lourdes Rodriguez

Lourdes Rodriguez

Like Aretha says, THINK. What are you trying to do to this data? Lourdes Rodriguez reports from “Technological Innovations and Population Health…Friends, Foes, or Both?” at our October 2018 conference.

November 5, 2018

Conference Report: What ‘Home’ Means for Population Health

Emily Walton

Emily Walton

How can individuals care for their health when they don’t have a home, don’t feel “at home”, and when home has different gendered meanings? A conference report from Emily Walton.

October 22, 2018