Online Events

IAPHS Online Events

IAPHS is pleased to offer online events throughout the year. In most cases, the online events will be recorded and available to IAPHS members to access.

Past Events

Policy and Health Outcomes for Transgender and Gender-diverse Populations
November 7, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

Transgender individuals have been part of recorded history across diverse cultures, yet today they face unprecedented political and legal challenges. This webinar will explore the intersection of policy and health outcomes for transgender and gender-diverse populations, focusing on the ways in which state and local laws directly influence access to healthcare, mental health support, and even public facilities. By examining health disparities in transgender communities, we aim to shed light on the critical role that legislation plays in shaping health outcomes, including mental health, physical health, and overall well-being. The session will also analyze how specific policies impact health based on geographic location, contributing to varying levels of healthcare access and health equity.

In light of the upcoming November 5, 2024 election, we will discuss the potential health and policy implications for transgender and gender-diverse populations. Attendees will gain insight into the real-world consequences of these policies and explore actionable steps that can be taken to promote health equity and improve outcomes for this vulnerable population. Together, we will consider the broader implications of these legislative trends and discuss strategies for advocacy and support for transgender and gender-diverse individuals in the face of growing political and social pressures.

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PRESENTER:

John Oeffinger
John Oeffinger (he/him) is Director, eLearning and Training for Texas Health Institute. He has extensive Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) experience including Co-PL Project Strategist for Creating National Capacity to Disseminate Transgender & Gender Diverse PCOR/CER Results. He is a PCORI Ambassador and serves as Advocate Advisory Board member for PCORI research study “Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals Seeking Vaginoplasty.” He has been The PRIDE Study/PRIDEnet community engagement partner lead for THI since 2017. He was Co-PL for PCORI’s “TransFORWARD: Building a Statewide Transgender and Gender Diverse Collaborative for Long-Term Effects of Post-Acute COVID-19 PCOR/CER Research in Texas.”

FACILITATOR:

Lauren Gulbas
Dr. Lauren E. Gulbas is an Associate Professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin. As a medical anthropologist and social work researcher, Dr. Gulbas is recognized for her pioneering contributions to the fields of suicide risk and prevention, particularly among marginalized populations. Her research uniquely integrates qualitative methodologies with a strong commitment to addressing mental health disparities, focusing on resilience-based interventions and the structural dynamics that contribute to community risks. Dr. Gulbas’ work has been supported by major funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. In recognition of her contributions to the field, she was named the Robert Lee Sutherland Fellow in Mental Health and Social Policy. Through her research, she seeks to advance mental health equity by fostering collaborations that span academia, clinical practice, and community engagement.

Student Virtual Pre-Conference Workshop

September 5, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

The IAPHS Student Committee invites you to attend a pre-conference “office hour”. This is a chance to drop by and introduce yourself to Student Committee Officers, ask questions about attending the annual meeting, and connect with fellow student attendees before we meet in St. Louis.

FACILITATOR:

Samantha Doonan
Samantha Doonan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Population Health at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and is a T32 predoctoral fellow in the Behavioral Sciences Training (BST) in Drug Abuse Research program at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her research examines how structural determinants of health impact the outcomes of substance use policies. In her dissertation, she aims to examine how manifestations of structural racism may produce differential impacts of state harm reduction laws across subgroups in order to inform the adoption and implementation of equitable substance use laws. Previously, she evaluated the health, social, and economic impacts of cannabis legalization in Massachusetts as a Research Analyst at the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission. Samantha received a B.A. in Health: Science, Society, and Policy from Brandeis University.

FACILITATOR:

Bee Ben Khallouq
Bee (she/her/hers) was born and raised in California and now calls Florida home. She is a first-generation college graduate and the first in her family to seek a doctoral degree. In her free time, she enjoys nature, biking, reading and photography. Bee is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Central Florida. Bee’s dissertation explores ritualized heterosexist practices in medicine from the perspectives of medical trainees.
Bee is committed to building community while conducting her research and doing research that can be shared with the public to improve the living conditions of folks. This commitment guides her scholarly activities. Bee believes that recognizing who we are and how we got here (and there) helps us understand and shape our work. Her research focuses on health, health access and social inequalities in health and the medical profession. More specifically, her research agenda is focused on the intersection of race, class, gender, and gender identity and how these impact the way that we do medicine.

FACILITATOR:

Michael D. Green
Michael D. Green (he/him) is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. Michael’s broad research interests are in social determinants of health, cardiology, and racial disparities. He currently has a National Institute of Aging Diversity Supplement award on one of his mentor’s (Dr. Matthew E. Dupre) R01 grants, which examines the impact of social determinants of health on risk trajectories for cardiovascular disease, and is assembling a fellowship application with an intended submission in Fall 2023. Michael plans to pursue dissertation research that investigates discrimination in a healthcare setting’s impact on cardiovascular disease risk and outcomes. He plans to establish a research agenda that surrounds unequal treatment in preventative practices for heart disease. He hopes to work at the intersection of academic research, media, and industry, focusing on health communication and interactions within the healthcare system.

Academic Careers: Exploring Institutional Differences and Charting Your Path with Advice from Leading Scholars

July 25, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

The IAPHS Student Committee invites you to join us for an engaging and informative webinar tailored specifically for students and trainees navigating the academic job market. This event features a panel of esteemed guests from various academic backgrounds who will share their insights and experiences. The discussion will cover critical topics, including strategies for pursuing academic job opportunities, understanding the differences between soft and hard money positions, and effectively navigating different institutional environments as interdisciplinary researchers. This is a unique opportunity to gain valuable advice from experts in the field, providing you with the tools and knowledge to successfully chart your academic career path.

Recording

PANELIST:

Michael Esposito
Dr. Esposito’s research investigates how broad, racialized social systems — and their constituent institutions — are configured in ways that layer privileges on white populations and hazards on BIPOC populations; his research ultimately seeks to understand how these systematically distributed privileges and penalties arrive on population health. This includes studies that examine how the actions of race-cognizant institutions (e.g., law enforcement agencies) contribute to health disparities; research that considers how multiple racialized systems overlap to gate access to generative health contexts; and projects which demonstrate how structural racism distorts social processes that are foundational to well-being (e.g., the association among education and health). He makes use of contemporary statistical methods — particularly Bayesian approaches and techniques for drawing causal(-ish!) inferences from observational data — in addressing these topics.

PANELIST:

Mateo Farina
Dr. Farina’s research investigates the life course origins of biological, physical, and cognitive aging in older adulthood, how life course pathways differ across populations, and the role of biosocial mechanisms in leading to health and health disparities. His encompassing both individual and population level data. He uses both demographic and statistical methods, with an expertise in longitudinal research methods. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Aging (K99/R00) to investigate how epigenetics can be used to understand cognitive aging in the older adulthood and how it may be tied to social and environmental exposures found throughout the life course. He is also in the process of collecting biomarker and cognitive functioning data on populations that have been excluded from extant datasets.

PANELIST

Kelli Komro
Professor Komro is a social and behavioral epidemiologist focused on promoting child and adolescent health and reducing health disparities driven by social and economic inequities. For over 25 years, she has led NIH-funded group-randomized trials to study multilevel (family, school, community, and policy) interventions to promote youth health and reduce disparities. She has also led legal epidemiology research, including quasi-experiments, to study health effects of laws that influence social determinants of health. NIH has continually funded her research since the 1990s and she has published in the leading public health, prevention science, preventive medicine, addiction and health behavior journals. Prof Komro’s research has been highlighted by the National Institutes of Health and National Academies of Sciences. Her meaningful and humbling experiences partnering with many diverse families, schools, and communities have fueled her passion for addressing fundamental determinants of health. She is excited to share her knowledge, skills and passion with those dedicated to finding solutions through innovation and strong science to inform health-promoting community and policy action.

PANELIST:

Ellicott Matthay
Dr. Matthay’s research examines the impacts of social policies, including alcohol and drug control policies on violence, substance use, and related inequities. She applies rigorous, multidisciplinary causal inference methods to guide programs and policies to prevent the violence and the adverse health effects of alcohol and drug use. She has methodological expertise in epidemiologic and biostatistical methods, causal inference, and policy evaluation, as well as substantive knowledge on alcohol use, cannabis use, and the prevention of self-directed and interpersonal violence. By leveraging traditional and nontraditional public health data sources including population-based surveys, health care utilization records, and web-scraped data on events or exposures, along with cutting-edge study design and estimation approaches, Dr. Matthay seeks to identify social programs and policies that reduce violence and related inequities, and to identify novel targets for community-level prevention policies. Her methodological work aims to strengthen inferences about the causal effects of social programs and policies on health equity and population health. She believes that the methodological challenges that arise in social epidemiological research are particularly perplexing and that addressing them by improving the methodological rigor of applied studies is one of the most important steps to identifying effective prevention strategies.

Bridging the Gap: Communicating Research to Policymakers & Beyond

May 30, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

Have you ever wondered how to get your research into the hands of policymakers, or wished your findings were known by a wider audience? Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and IAPHS are organizing a webinar to highlight ways to expand the reach of your research by distilling your findings into messages and formats tailored for nontechnical audiences, including policymakers and the media. Panelists from PRB will describe how to write effectively, avoid common pitfalls in writing for nontechnical readers, identify target audiences, and use communication tools and platforms to share your research. They’ll also provide resources to help you get started.

Recording

PANELIST:

Michael Esposito

PANELIST:

Raquel Wojnar
Raquel Wojnar is a communications manager in Communications. She has more than a decade of experience as a content manager and editor in a variety of environments, having worked for nonprofits, publishers, and news organizations in the health care, education, and business spaces. Wojnar works with PRB’s partners, policy analysts, researchers, and Communications staff to develop clear and effective material for print and digital publication. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, and she joined PRB in 2021.

PANELIST

Christine Power
Christine Power is a senior policy advisor in International Programs who joined PRB in 2018. Her focus is on the implementation of youth-friendly family planning services and empowering youth advocates for family planning. Power previously worked at the Tanzanian-German Programme to Support Health in Dar es Salaam and at the Institute for Reproductive Health and the World Health Organization. Power holds a master’s degree in global health from the Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Boston University. She speaks intermediate French.

FACILITATOR

Audrey Dorélien
Audrey Dorélien is an Associate Professor in the global policy and the social policy & policy analysis areas at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota (UMN). At UMN, she is also a faculty affiliate in the Applied Economics Department, the School of Public Health, and the Minnesota Population Center, where she currently serves as the Co-Director of the Population Training Program.

Enhancing Productivity in Population Health Science with Sandro Galea

March 21, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

Maintaining productivity while promoting a healthy work-life balance can be challenging for population health scientists at any stage in their careers. This session aims to equip participants with tools to improve academic time management and align their time with their research priorities, increasing their impact on population health science. This session will also provide innovative approaches and practical strategies towards more effective writing. Participants will also learn to effectively collaborate and streamline their workflow while navigating work and personal demands. There will be plenty of time for Q&A as well, so come prepared with your questions for Dean Galea!

Recording

PRESENTER:

Sandro Galea
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Boston University School of Public Health
Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is the current Chair of the Boston Public Health Commission Board of Health, past chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.

A People First Approach to Government and the Right to Health

March 7, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

Researchers and scholars, representing various disciplinary and methodological backgrounds, will discuss collaborating with governments and constituents to advance health equity and justice, while improving policy, law, governance, and ethics. Topics include climate change and environmental justice communities; administrative burdens and barriers to accessing government benefits, services, and rights; and economic and social rights and the right to health and safety where people live, work, play, and travel. Our panelists have provided research, analysis, expertise, and leadership necessary for policy development, implementation, evaluation, and decision making from local to global levels of government. Please join our conversation on working with government departments, agencies, and organizations to improve population health. Free to all. Please spread the word.

RECORDING

MODERATOR:

Keshia Pollack Porter
Keshia Pollack Porter
Chair of the Health Policy and Management Department and Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars, Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Pollack Porter is the Bloomberg Centennial Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Health Policy Research Scholars, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Pollack Porter is a health equity scholar whose research advances policies that create safe and healthy environments where people live, work, play, and travel, with an emphasis on addressing structural drivers of health and promoting effective cross-sector collaborations. She is also Director of the School’s Institute for Health and Social Policy, and part of the leadership team for the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions.

PANELIST:

Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin
Lecturer on Law and Health Policy and Management and Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard University. Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy at the global health justice organization, Partners In Health.
Dr. Yamin is known globally for her trans-disciplinary work in relation to economic and social rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, the right to health, and the intersections between development paradigms and human rights. Her career bridges academia and activism. She has lived in Latin America and East Africa for many years and worked with local advocacy organizations, plus founded a program on health and human rights in the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos in Peru. She has served on numerous UN, WHO and other global expert committees. Dr. Yamin regularly provides testimony and guidance to tribunals and legislative bodies around the globe, as well as amicus curiae briefs, in relation to the application of international and comparative law to health and sexual and reproductive rights issues. Her latest monograph, When Misfortune becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality, was published by Stanford University Press in 2023.

PANELIST:

Michael Méndez
Michael Méndez
Assistant professor of environmental policy and planning, UC Irvine, National Center for Atmospheric Research Visiting Scientist, and Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Dr. Méndez’s research, which investigates how climate-induced disasters intensify social inequities, includes communities of color, undocumented Latino/a and Indigenous migrants, LGBTQI people, people working outdoors, and people who are incarcerated. With over ten years of senior-level public and private sector experience, he has consulted for the California State Legislature as a lobbyist, gubernatorial appointee, and Sacramento City Planning Commission vice chair. Contributions to state and national research policy initiatives include advising the California Air Resources Board and participating in the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s workgroup on “Climate Vulnerability and Social Science Perspectives.” He serves as a National Academies of Sciences’ Transit Cooperative Research Program panel reviewer and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Environmental Change and Society member. Dr. Mendez’s first book published by Yale University Press in 2020, Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement, has received multiple awards.

PANELIST:

Donald Moynihan
Donald Moynihan
Inaugural McCourt Chair and Better Government Lab Co-Director at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Dr. Moynihan’s research seeks to improve how government works. He studies the administrative burdens people encounter in their interactions with government, with the goal of making those interactions simple, accessible and respectful. He is the current President of the Association of Public Policy and Management and a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. Moynihan has presented his research to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Government Accountability Office, World Bank, World Health Organization, United Nations, OECD, and governments worldwide. His research and writing has been cited in President Obama’s and President Biden’s budget proposals, OMB policy guidance under Biden, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and other media. He is a Visiting Professor at Aarhus University and was previously at Oxford University. Dr. Moynihan’s 2018 book coauthored with Pamela Herd and published by Russell Sage Foundation, Administrative Burden. Policymaking by Other Means, has received numerous awards.

PAST EVENTS:

Financial strain in relation to health and health disparities across places and the life-course

February 15, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:30PM EST

Financial strain, which is defined as experiencing difficulty making ends meet, is important to health and health disparities. A growing body of evidence examines the role of financial strain in relation to health and our team has systematically surveyed that evidence. We provide a summary of our findings, which examine both the U.S. and African context and synthesize both qualitative and quantitative findings. Findings from this project provide insight into the experience of financial strain across settings and across the life-course, the mechanisms by which financial strain influences health, the types of financial strain measures that most consistently predict health, and the links between financial strain with health outcomes among children and adults. These findings are sorely needed to advance health equity for low-income populations, who are disproportionately individuals who are Black, Hispanic, Native American or with disabilities. Therefore, study findings have health equity implications for policy action for economic support, clinical screening for financial strain and improved interventions to address financial strain.

RECORDING

PRESENTER:

Martha Abshire Saylor
Martha Abshire Saylor, PhD, RN
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Martha Abshire Saylor is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her clinical experience in cardiac and critical care has been the foundation of her work. Her research interests include an emphasis on psychosocial sequelae of advanced illness, advanced heart failure management, biomarkers of stress, and patient-reported outcomes. Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor has developed and tested interventions that use a strengths-based approach to support caregivers of persons with advanced illness. Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor also has methodological expertise in using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to understand complex phenomena.

PRESENTER:

Manka Nkimbeng
Manka Nkimbeng, PhD, MPH
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Dr. Manka Nkimbeng is a nurse scientist and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and an Affiliate assistant professor in the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Prior to that, she was a Robert L. Kane Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She received her PhD in nursing from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, her MPH from Boston University School of Public Health and Bachelors of Science in nursing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She works with communities to develop and test culturally appropriate interventions that can be translated into health policies and clinical practice to improve health and eliminate health inequities for older adults.

PRESENTER:

Laura Samuel
Laura Samuel, PhD, RN
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Laura Samuel is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Her interest in investigating income-based health disparities stems from both her experience helping families meet their basic needs as a primary care nurse practitioner and her childhood experience of financial strain. She now seeks to advance health equity for low-income individuals and families through two related streams of research. First, she has built a body of evidence demonstrating that financial strain contributes to aging-related health disparities and that housing conditions, such as disorder in the home, partly account for socioeconomic disparities. Second, she evaluates the health impact of programs and policies that are intended to improve economic well-being for low-income households. This research has linked access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with better health for low-income adults. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

PRESENTER:

Rhonda Smith Wright
Rhonda Smith Wright, PhD candidate
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Rhonda’s current work examines associations between neighborhood-level structures such as residential segregation and sickle cell disease pain outcomes. Her research interests are informed by over ten years as a public health professional working in administration, nursing, and education. Rhonda earned her BA at the University of Pennsylvania, MHSA at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and her MSN from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate and Public Health Nursing Clinical Lab Instructor.

MODERATOR:

Reginald Tucker-Seeley
Reginald Tucker-Seeley, ScD
Principal/Owner, Health Equity Strategies and Solutions
Dr. Tucker-Seeley is the Principal/Owner of Health Equity Strategies and Solutions, a consulting firm focused on advising health/healthcare related organizations, departments, and committees/coalitions in three topic areas: 1) addressing the social determinants of health; 2) defining, measuring, and intervening on health disparities; and 3) health equity strategy development, implementation, and evaluation. Prior to establishing Health Equity Strategies and Solutions, Dr. Tucker-Seeley was the VP of Health Equity at ZERO Prostate Cancer, where he led the development and implementation of ZERO’s health equity strategy to reduce racial and place-based disparities in prostate cancer. His faculty appointments have included the inaugural Edward L. Schneider chair in gerontology and Assistant Professor in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California; and Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Tucker-Seeley’s research has focused on social determinants of health across the life course, such as the association between the neighborhood environment and health behavior; and on individual-level socioeconomic determinants of multi-morbidity, mortality, and self-rated health. Additionally, his research has investigated the association of financial hardship with health across the cancer continuum from prevention to end-of-life care.

Abstract Writing Workshop for Students

February 8, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

A workshop for students in which we will discuss tips, review samples, and share helpful strategies for writing a clear and concise conference abstract.

RECORDING

PRESENTER:

Michael D. Green
Michael D. Green
Duke University School of Medicine
Michael D. Green (he/him) is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. Michael’s broad research interests are in social determinants of health, cardiology, and racial disparities. He currently has a National Institute of Aging Diversity Supplement award on one of his mentor’s (Dr. Matthew E. Dupre) R01 grants, which examines the impact of social determinants of health on risk trajectories for cardiovascular disease, and is assembling a fellowship application with an intended submission in Fall 2023. Michael plans to pursue dissertation research that investigates discrimination in a healthcare setting’s impact on cardiovascular disease risk and outcomes. He plans to establish a research agenda that surrounds unequal treatment in preventative practices for heart disease. He hopes to work at the intersection of academic research, media, and industry, focusing on health communication and interactions within the healthcare system.

PRESENTER:

Samantha Doonan
Samantha Doonan
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Samantha Doonan is a PhD Student in the Department of Population Health at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and is a T32 predoctoral fellow in the Behavioral Sciences Training (BST) in Drug Abuse Research program at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her research examines how structural determinants of health impact the outcomes of substance use policies. In her dissertation, she aims to examine how manifestations of structural racism may produce differential impacts of state harm reduction laws across subgroups in order to inform the adoption and implementation of equitable substance use laws. Previously, she evaluated the health, social, and economic impacts of cannabis legalization in Massachusetts as a Research Analyst at the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission. Samantha received a B.A. in Health: Science, Society, and Policy from Brandeis University.

Stories are Science, Stories are Policies: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities when working with Health Equity Storytellers

January 18, 2024 at 12:00PM-2:00PM EST

Working across disciplines and collaboratively with community partners has helped them craft empowering and diverse spaces for population health practice and policy change. In this session, the team will discuss their work on a storytelling project with Black women on the cancer continuum, as patients and informal caregivers. This work is currently being turned into a book chapter. During the session, the participants will have the opportunity to explore these ideas with a case study and the facilitators will guide the participants through robust conversations about storytelling and narrative as a valuable interdisciplinary methodology for journeying towards epistemic justice and health equity.

RECORDING

FACILITATOR:

LaShaune P. Johnson
LaShaune P. Johnson
Creighton University
LaShaune Johnson is medical sociologist at Creighton University in Omaha and the Director of the university’s community engagement center, the Highlander. Her research focuses on maternal and child health and Black cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survival. She employs participatory, qualitative, and arts-based methods, and offers training in culturally-responsive, racial equity-focused evaluation. She is a Certified Listener Poet

FACILITATOR:

Sarah Lux
Sarah Lux
Creighton University
Sarah Lux is a member of the Medical Humanities Department at Creighton University’s School of Medicine. Her professional background is in college student development and higher education leadership and administration. Her past research has examined knowledge construction and identity development among college students with disabilities, using an ecological systems theory framework. Her professional interests include higher education policy and leadership, equity and access issues in postsecondary institutions, and the role of meaning-making in academic leadership and student learning.

FACILITATOR:

David O. Fakunle
David O. Fakunle
Morgan State University
David Olawuyi Fakunle, Ph.D. is a “mercenary for change,” employing any skill and occupying any space to help elevate everyone divested from their truest self, especially those who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color. David serves as Assistant Professor in the Public Health Program at the Morgan State University School of Community Health & Policy, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, and Associate Faculty in the Mental Health department of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. David’s interests include stressors within the built environment, societal manifestations of racism, and the use of arts and culture to strengthen health, equity and ultimately, liberation.
Additionally, David has applied artistic and cultural practices such as Black storytelling, African drumming, singing and theater in the proclamation of truth for over 20 years, collaborating primarily with organizations in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. region. Among many affiliations, David is co-founder and CEO of DiscoverME/RecoverME, an organization that utilizes the African oral tradition to empower use of storytelling for healing and growth, serves as Executive Director of WombWork Productions, a Baltimore-based social change performing arts company, and serves as Chair of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first state-level commission in the U.S. dedicated to chronicling and bringing justice to racial terror lynchings.

An Introduction to Book Publishing at a University Press

January 11, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST

The “publish or perish” mantra for researchers working at schools of public health or medicine means producing a steady stream of journal articles—and securing the external funding that makes that research possible. Doing so allows scholars to disseminate their work to the core group of researchers working in the same area, but what about reaching a broader audience of scholars from other fields, or even the general public? For individuals working on health inequities and population health, this moment urgently requires creating work that can have as wide an impact as possible.

For population health researchers who are interested in expanding the scope of their scholarship from journal articles to a book, there is a dearth of information on how to make this happen. Much of the “how-to” literature about scholarly book publishing targets those whose first book is derived from the dissertation, and from fields where book writing is the norm (e.g., history, literature). This webinar provides an introduction to the process of publishing a sole-authored book with a university press. We will cover such topics as: the risks and rewards of book writing, research funding, identifying possible publishers, how editors work, and writing a book proposal. The co-presenters represent both sides of the publishing equation—a researcher who made the transition from writing only articles to a practice focused on books; and an acqusition editor responsible for the public health list at a major press.

RECORDING

PRESENTER:

Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Naa Oyo A. Kwate is an interdisciplinary social scientist with wide ranging interests in African American urban life. A psychologist by training, her research on racial inequality and African American health has ranged from survey-based studies of racism’s affects on health to spatial analyses of neighborhood exposures such as fast food restaurants and outdoor alcohol advertisements. While those took shape as peer-reviewed journal articles, Kwate now publishes her scholarship as books. Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now (University of Minnesota Press) and an edited book, The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality (Rutgers University Press) preceded her most recent work, White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation (Minnesota, 2023). The book traces fast food’s historical transformation over the 20th century from an exclusively White project to one disproportionately prevalent in Black neighborhoods. Her latest project, tentatively titled Terror’s Terroir: The Corner Liquor Store in Black Urban Life, investigates the liquor store’s reach, impact, and racial meanings. It is slated for publication in spring 2026 at the University of Chicago Press. Kwate has held faculty positions at Columbia and Rutgers, and as a developmental editor, helps scholars develop book manuscripts and proposals.

PRESENTER:

Robin Coleman
Robin Coleman
Johns Hopkins University Press
Robin Coleman edits the public health and health policy lists at Johns Hopkins University Press. In addition to publishing essential books on the discipline’s foundational concepts, he brings focus to the list by highlighting new ways of thinking about the field and the issues it confronts—from global health security to the social and political determinants of health. Robin seeks queries, proposals, and manuscripts for new works that can offer authoritative lessons on the essential knowledge and skills of public health practice, that introduce new concepts, or offer big ideas to transform our understanding of familiar areas that we take for granted.

Shifting Power and Advancing Equity in Population Health Webinar Series: How can we shift power and advance equity within our own work?

November 30, 2023 at 11:00AM-12:30AM EST

Shifting Power and Advancing Equity in Population Health Webinar Series: Hosted in partnership between the International Conference on Family Planning’s Power Shifting Subcommittee and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science

The public health field has been engaging in efforts to better understand the historical power dynamics and shift power. Colonialism and its legacy are part of our shared human history. The social structures, funding models, and knowledge generation practices that define global health are rooted in a history of inequality, exploitation, and racism. For the population health community, this is also a history of coercion, population control, and eugenics. Calls to address these legacies continue to fall short, challenging the community to think and act critically to address them. These actions hold the potential to bring historically marginalized individuals to the table as contributors and spur rich conversations about “decolonizing knowledge”.

We aim to create interactive virtual spaces to explore the question: what can we do to shift power and advance equity in population health now?

In the second session we will showcase an example of how power shifting works in practice. We will then draw on the expertise in the room and engage participants to identify actionable next steps that they can take to shift power and advance equity in their organizations and working relationships.

RECORDING

MODERATOR:

Goodness Ogeyi Odey
Goodness Ogeyi Odey
ICFP Power Shifting Subcommittee Co-Chair
Goodness Ogeyi Odey is a dedicated Public Health Practitioner with a fervent commitment to advancing health system strengthening and promoting equitable engagement to foster global sustainable development and universal health coverage, particularly in the African context. She is a distinguished Chevening Scholar currently pursuing her Master of Science in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing at two prestigious institutions renowned for their expertise in Public Health and Social Sciences: The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
In 2022, Goodness achieved the remarkable honor of receiving the Diana Award, the highest recognition for young individuals engaged in social action, which stands as a lasting tribute to Princess Diana’s legacy. This award acknowledges her exceptional contributions to championing health equity in Africa through her advocacy, pioneering research, and sustainable interventions. Additionally, in the same year, she was bestowed with the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) Trailblazer Award, a testament to her significant leadership and innovative contributions to family planning, as well as sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Currently, she serves as a prominent co-chair of the ICFP Power-shifting subcommittee.
Above all, Ogeyi is a child of God, and evidently more than than the eyes can see.

MODERATOR:

Onikepe Owolabi
Onikepe Owolabi
Director of International Research, Guttmacher Institute
Onikepe Owolabi is one of two Directors of International Research at Guttmacher Institute. Prior to becoming a Director, Onikepe was the Senior Global Director MNCH/FP at IntraHealth International, USA. She was also a Senior Research Scientist at Guttmacher between 2016 and 2021 during which time her research focused on primarily on abortion and maternal morbidity measurement and measuring the quality of sexual and reproductive health care from multiple perspectives within health systems. Dr Owolabi has research and programmatic expertise in maternal, reproductive health in countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia and has authored or coauthored more than 40 peer-reviewed and other scientific publications.
Onikepe completed her medical degree at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, her Masters in Global Health at University of Oxford and her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was also part of the 2022 Cohort of the WomenLiftHealth U.S. Leadership Journey, an experiential, and results-driven fellowship for mid to senior-career women in health whose work and partnerships serve target populations in low- and middle-income countries.

SPEAKER:

Amber Clarke
Amber Clarke
Advisor and Coordinator of the Fight Against Institutional Racism (FAIR) Network, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Amber Clarke completed her MSc in Nutrition for Global Health (2017/18) at LSHTM. She is the Advisor and Coordinator of the Fight Against Institutional Racism (FAIR) Network at LSHTM, a health improvement and disparities researcher at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and a post-graduate student in ‘Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity’ at Birkbeck, University of London. Amber is committed to rooting her work in disrupting legacies of coloniality in service of social justice. Twitter – @AmberRose_T

SPEAKER:

Praveena K. Fernes
Praveena K. Fernes
Researcher and PhD Candidate, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Praveena K. Fernes (PhD Candidate) is a Marshall Scholar in the UK, where she studied political ecology at SOAS University of London and now public health and policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her current PhD project explores the place-based experiences of people who are homeless and seek drug and alcohol services in East London, with a special focus on relations of care. Her work strives to advance health equity through transdisciplinary research-to-action partnerships and democratizing the kinds of stories being heard.

SPEAKER:

Sali Hafez
Sali Hafez
MHS, BDS, DrPH candidate
Sali Hafez is a health systems researcher and global health specialist who has worked on health systems in post-conflict fragile states, low and middle income countries, focusing on the intersection of health, equity, intersectionality and decoloniality. For the last 15 years, she led multi-country humanitarian response and research in over 15 countries, including Liberia, Lebanon, Libya, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, Iraq, Djibouti, Bangladesh, Sudan, Yemen, South Sudan and Jordan. She is a doctoral candidate in public health policy at the London School for Hygiene and a member of the Fight Against Institutional Racism (FAIR) Network.

SPEAKER:

IRADUKUNDA Gad Patrick
IRADUKUNDA Gad Patrick
Pharmaceutical Regulatory specialist
I have a background in biomedical laboratory sciences and a Masters in Clinical Trials. Over the last years, I have been involved in 13 scientific contributions including 2 as first author and 3 systematic and meta-analysis reviews. As a regulator, I supported my institution to establish the framework of medicated cosmetic regulation in Rwanda and provided substantial technical support in quality management system improvement. I have also been a team leader for the molecular diagnosis of COVID-19 in Rwanda over a period of one year in Rwanda. My current interests are in improving public health through research with focus on regulation, clinical trials and epidemiology of disease.

SPEAKER:

Innocent Grant
Innocent Grant
Program Director, Young and Alive Initiative, IBP Co-chair
Innocent Grant is a program director at Young and Alive Initiative in Tanzania. He is a gender specialist with a background in clinical medicine, and a self-motivated youth leader who is passionate about educating adolescents and young adults about sexual, reproductive health and rights. He also has special expertise in policy advocacy, social and behavioural change communication, digital media for reproductive health promotion and human rights activism.

SPEAKER:

Nandita Thatte
Nandita Thatte
DrPH, Technical Officer, WHO, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health
Nandita Thatte leads the WHO hosted IBP Network in the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research at WHO in Geneva Switzerland. She is passionate about using the WHO/IBP Network of Civil Society Organizations to disseminate and support the use of evidence-based interventions and guidelines, inform implementation research and program priorities and amplify local partner experiences on a global scale. Prior to joining WHO, Nandita was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Population and Reproductive Health at USAID. Nandita has a Masters in Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Doctorate in Prevention and Community Health from the George Washington University in Washington D.C.

SPEAKER:

Isabella Aborderin

SPEAKER:

Laura Burke
Laura Burke
Centre for Reproduction, Technology and Health, University of Sussex, UK
Laura Burke is a medical anthropologist with a special focus on reproduction, environment, and population debates. She conducted her doctoral research on how communities are rebuilding and reproducing life after conflict and crisis in independent Timor-Leste. This study, based on over 18 months of ethnographic research, revealed the importance of how indigenous conceptions of reproduction involve animist landscapes leading to clashes, but also convergences, with other organisations that seek to shape reproductive health practices. Laura’s current project investigates how epistemic justice can be used to broaden biomedical interpretations of health and the environment. She is also the Post-Doctoral RA on the project ‘Empowering Communities through University Partnerships in Public Health’, which investigates how collaborative ethnographic practices can build equal and respectful partnerships between communities and medical schools in Nepal and The Philippines and overcome a tendency to ‘preach’ public health to communities, rather than partner with them and integrate indigenous knowledge.

Work as a Structural and Social Determinant of Health

November 16, 2023 at 12:00PM-2:00PM EST

The dominant framework of health research is a biomedical approach, focusing on individuals’ biology and behaviors, despite the centrality of social and occupational environments in determining disease distributions. This undue focus on individuals’ characteristics can conflate social identities with biological factors; pathologize racial, cultural, and gender identities; perpetuate racism; obscure structural influences; and absolve governing bodies and industries of responsibility for people’s safety. Documentation of workplace characteristics and policies, and use of these metrics in the study of health disparities, offers an opportunity to shift the public health dialogue toward structural determinants of health while also highlighting readily intervenable health risks. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significant role of work settings in driving health disparities, but working conditions and environments have long been important and often overlooked determinants of health disparities. They can also be sites of exploitation, intimidation, and racism. Segregation of employment is common, with non-white workers overrepresented in dangerous and women overrepresented in low paying jobs; and exploitation, discrimination, harassment, and wage theft go largely undocumented. LGBTQ workers are more likely to experience hiring and firing discrimination, have a criminal record, receive lower wages, and be denied health benefits than non-LGBTQ workers. However, only 20 states have laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. And, over 30 states are considering anti-trans bills in the 2023 session. In order for health research to meaningfully mitigate health disparities, racial, ethnic, gender identity, and sexual orientation data must be more consistently and accurately collected in our national surveys and administrative data; and work must be centrally considered in social determinants of health research.

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PANELIST:

Elizabeth (Libby) McClure
Elizabeth (Libby) McClure
Union of Concerned Scientists
Libby is a Kendall Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a Research Affiliate with the Occupational Safety and Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She recently completed a year contributing to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 response as an occupational epidemiologist. Her research is focused on the ways in which historical and structural inequalities produce health disparities. She seeks involvement in social and environmental justice-focused research that both critically complicates traditional study of health and illness while also supporting social change.

PANELIST:

Candice Johnson
Candice Johnson
Duke University
Candice Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Duke University. She is an epidemiologist who studies how workplace exposures and work-related policies affect the health of workers and their families. Her research interests include employment during pregnancy, effects of labor laws on health, and occupational health inequity. Dr. Johnson received her PhD in Epidemiology from Emory University and worked as a reproductive epidemiologist at CDC/NIOSH prior to joining the Duke faculty.

PANELIST:

Kaori Fujishiro
Kaori Fujishiro
CDC/NIOSH
Kaori Fujishiro, PhD, is a Senior Research Epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As a social epidemiologist in an agency dedicated to improving working people’s health, Kaori has done extensive research on the role work plays in creating health inequalities. Through her research, mentoring, and leadership opportunities, Kaori promotes the perspective of work as a structural determinant of health and advocates for creating safer and healthier workplaces as a viable way of reducing health inequalities.

PANELIST:

Kaitlin Kelly-Reif

Shifting Power and Advancing Equity in Population Health Webinar Series: How does the history of population health impact our work today?

November 2, 2023 at 11:00AM-12:30AM EST

We aim to create interactive virtual spaces to explore the question: what can we do to shift power and advance equity in population health now?

In the first session we will start by discussing how this work is progressing currently and how we got here. We will first reflect on the historical legacies of family planning, population health, and development broadly and how they impact the systems that we are working within today.

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MODERATOR:

Goodness Ogeyi Odey
Goodness Ogeyi Odey
ICFP Power Shifting Subcommittee Co-Chair
Goodness Ogeyi Odey is a dedicated Public Health Practitioner with a fervent commitment to advancing health system strengthening and promoting equitable engagement to foster global sustainable development and universal health coverage, particularly in the African context. She is a distinguished Chevening Scholar currently pursuing her Master of Science in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing at two prestigious institutions renowned for their expertise in Public Health and Social Sciences: The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
In 2022, Goodness achieved the remarkable honor of receiving the Diana Award, the highest recognition for young individuals engaged in social action, which stands as a lasting tribute to Princess Diana’s legacy. This award acknowledges her exceptional contributions to championing health equity in Africa through her advocacy, pioneering research, and sustainable interventions. Additionally, in the same year, she was bestowed with the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) Trailblazer Award, a testament to her significant leadership and innovative contributions to family planning, as well as sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Currently, she serves as a prominent co-chair of the ICFP Power-shifting subcommittee.
Above all, Ogeyi is a child of God, and evidently more than than the eyes can see.

PRESENTER:

Annabel Sowemimo
Dr. Annabel Sowemimo
Sexual and reproductive health registrar, academic, activist, and writer; Co-director and founder of the Reproductive Justice Initiative
Dr. Annabel Sowemimo is a Sexual and reproductive health registrar, academic, activist, and writer. She is co-director and founder of charity the Reproductive Justice Initiative (RJI) (formerly Decolonising Contraception), which aims to address health inequalities and racial disparities in healthcare. They have been shortlisted for numerous awards, winning grassroots organisation of the year at the 2020 Sexual Health Awards and a National LGBTQ Health Advisor award in 2022.
Within her specialty, she is interested in tackling gender-based violence and improving access for marginalised groups. As a freelance writer she has written for The Independent, The Guardian and numerous other publications. As well as jointly hosting The Sex Agenda podcast, she is frequently in demand for TV and radio.
Annabel is a part-time PhD candidate and Harold Moody Scholar at King’s College London with her research focusing on the experiences of Black British women with fertility control methods.
Annabel firmly believes that healthcare should be about empowering people with knowledge to make informed choices about their bodies. She spends her spare time campaigning on reproductive justice, against NHS cuts and improving healthcare for marginalised groups.
Her first book, Divided: Racism, Medicine and Decolonising Healthcare, was published by Profile Books/Wellcome Collection in 2023 and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political non-fiction.

PRESENTER:

Vincenza Mazzeo
Vincenza Mazzeo
PhD Candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University and 2020-2021 Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine and Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
Vincenza Mazzeo is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University and Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, and Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. She holds an HBA from the University of Toronto and MA from Carleton University.
Vincenza’s dissertation uses oral history and women’s alternative media to examine how ideas of gender, race, health, biomedicine, and freedom – specifically, freedom from state-sanctioned death and slow violence – were configured in liberationist struggles across South Africa during the late 20th century. Her research interests include political histories of health and medicine, gender and sexuality studies, African history, media studies, and postcolonial studies. At present, Vincenza is writing about the history of demands for pap smears in South Africa as a history of struggle against medical apartheid.
Vincenza is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships including the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2020-2022), Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Linda Souter Humanities Award (2021-2022), Mellon Summer Language Funds (2020), Media@Mcgill Fellowship (2018), Institute of Health and Social Policy Fellowship (2017), and Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Society Teaching Award (2016). More recently, she was awarded the KSAS Award for Teaching Excellence (2022) and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI) Graduate Fellowship (2023-2024). Her forthcoming publication, “Racism, Colonialism, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge in the Earliest Period of the Global COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign, 2020-2021,” is co-authored with Dr. Alexandre White.
Vincenza’s select academic service includes co-founding and co-organizing the 2023 International Workshop: Rethinking African Archives, membership on the Board of Directors for Students for Consent Culture Canada (2021-2023), co-organizing Gender and the Academy in Crisis (2021), logistical team member of Critical Conversations on Reproductive Health/Care: Past, Present, and Future (2021), Graduate Representative to the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM, 2016-2020), member of CSHM’s Prize Nomination Committee (2021), and co-creator of IPLAI’s Reading Group “On the Beauty of Feminist Rage” (2018). In addition, Vincenza has participated in over 20 national and international conferences hosted by the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM), Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), the South African Historical Association (SAHA), and the International Workshop on “Valuations of Life” in Sweden.
Beyond the academy, Vincenza has engaged in direct-action community-based organizing against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) across five countries and is a member of Women Also Know History and Informed Opinions. She is Italian-Canadian and currently resides on the unceded territory of the Paskestikweya people in Baltimore, Maryland.

R2A Webinar: Collective Advocacy for Population Health Equity

October 26, 2023 at 12:00PM – 1:00PM EST

Hear from scientists who are successfully approaching policy change based on the findings of their research through collaboration with collective advocacy groups in population health. Featured case studies on collective advocacy presented in the webinar will cover researchers’ success and effectiveness through community-based research methods, partnership or synergistic timing with organizations, or alignment with local movements and/or lobbying. Panelists will discuss their experiences and lessons learned with collective advocacy in order to translate population health research into real world change that advances social justice and health equity.

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PANELIST:

Cassandra Crifasi
Cassandra Crifasi
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Cassandra Crifasi is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions. She is also core faculty in the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Center for Health Disparities Solutions. Dr. Crifasi’s research focuses on the intersection of public health and public safety including injury epidemiology and prevention, gun violence and policy, and attitudes and public opinion regarding gun violence solutions. She works to effectively translate her research into evidence-based policies and programs to save lives.

PANELIST:

Rahwa Haile
Rahwa Haile
Lehman College (City University of NY)
Dr. Rahwa Haile is an Associate Professor at Lehman College (City University of NY). Her scholarly work is situated in the field of social epidemiology, and centers around the ways in which intersecting inequalities linked to racism, socioeconomic status, and heteronormativity exert an impact on health and well-being. Her long-term goal is to conduct policy-translatable research that helps improve social conditions in Black communities.

PANELIST:

Dana Rice
Dana Rice
University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
Dr. Dana Rice is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Leadership at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Rice is a public health practitioner and researcher who examines best practices in public health leadership and community engagement with a health equity, social justice and human rights lens. Her primary focus is on the integration of public health and correctional health systems and the impact of mass criminalization and mass incarceration on public health. Prior to joining the faculty at Gillings, Dr. Rice spent 20 years working in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

MODERATOR:

Paul Fleming
Paul Fleming
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Dr. Paul Fleming is Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education & Faculty Lead for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Fleming focuses his work on the root causes of racial health inequities and strategies to address them. He conducts community-based participatory research focused on the health needs of Latinx immigrants in Michigan and examines how to best integrate anti-racist principles into public health training and practice. He also is a member of Public Health Awakened and contributes to community organizing efforts to promote health through social change.

The ‘Product Environment’ Is a Driver of Health. It’s Time to Measure It

October 19, 2023 at 1:00PM – 2:00PM EST

A new paper in the American Journal of Health Promotion argues that the “product environment,” the products and services of everyday life, is a major driver of health and that in order shift it in a health-positive direction, we need to start measuring the influences that specific products and services have on the health behaviors of their users. Steve Downs, a co-author on the paper and a co-founder of Building H, a Public Health Institute project to reimagine everyday life to be healthy by design, will present the key arguments and introduce the Building H Index, an early effort to rate and rank products in the entertainment, food, housing and transportation industries.

PRESENTER:

Steve Downs
Steve Downs, Building H
Steve Downs is a co-founder at Building H, a project to build health into everyday life. Building H is growing a community of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, engineers and researchers who believe that we need to reimagine everyday life—how we eat, sleep, get from place to place, socialize and entertain ourselves—to be healthy by design. Steve is the primary developer of the Building H Index, a tool that rates and ranks popular companies in the entertainment, food, housing and transportation industries on the impacts of their products and services on the health and well-being of their customers. Steve is adjunct faculty at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford d.school).
Prior to Building H, Steve was the chief technology and strategy officer at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he focused on the practice of program strategy and on the alignment of the Foundation’s technology strategy and operations with organizational directions. In Steve’s long programming career at RWJF, he funded efforts to provide patients with better access to information and tools to manage their health; to support the field of public health informatics; and more.

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Legal epidemiology: Investigating the impact of laws on population health

September 14, 2023 at 12:00PM – 1:30PM EDT

Legal epidemiology is a fundamentally transdisciplinary field, combining legal scholarship with theory and methods from social science disciplines to better understand how laws affect population health. It encompasses tracking laws across jurisdictions and rigorously evaluating the impact of these laws on population health. During this webinar, we will convene a panel of experts to discuss how legal epidemiology methods can be used to study the impact of laws in various domains including public health emergency laws, regulation of reproductive healthcare, and policies responding to the opioid epidemic. The webinar will begin with an introduction to the legal epidemiology framework, followed by a moderated discussion with the panelists, and a Q&A session with attendees.

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PANELIST:

Scott
Burris
Scott Burris
Temple University Beasley School of Law and Temple University College of Public Health
Scott Burris is Professor of Law and Public Health at Temple University, where he directs the Center for Public Health Law Research. He is also a Professor in Temple’s College of Public Health. His work focuses on how law influences public health, and what interventions can make laws and law enforcement practices healthier in their effects. He is the author of over 200 books, book chapters, articles and reports on issues including urban health, HIV/AIDS, research ethics, and the health effects of criminal law. His work has been supported by organizations including the Open Society Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the CDC. He has served as a consultant to numerous U.S. and international organizations including WHO, UNODC and UNDP. He was a founder of Legal Science, LLC, a private company dedicated to the social mission of improving access to legal information and the supporting the practice of policy surveillance. He has been a visiting scholar at RegNet at the Australian National University, and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Cape Town Law School. In 2014, he was the recipient of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award, and was the 2018 recipient of the Jay Healey Health Law Professors award. Professor Burris is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (A.B.) and Yale Law School (J.D.).

MODERATOR:

Pricila
Mullachery
Pricila Mullachery
Temple University, College of Public Health

Pricila Mullachery is an assistant professor at Temple University College of Public Health. Her research is focused on the effect of laws and policies on health outcomes among disadvantaged populations. She is particularly interested in elucidating the mechanisms by which policies may mitigate or exacerbate existing health disparities. Her research on disparities includes complex public health issues related to the opioid crisis, the burden of chronic non-communicable diseases, and COVID-19.

Dr. Mullachery received a PhD in public health policy from New York University and completed postdoctoral training in social epidemiology and urban health at Drexel University School of Public Health.

PANELIST:

Lindsay
Cloud
Lindsay Cloud
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Lindsay K. Cloud is the deputy director at the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Her work focuses on the intersection of law and public health. She has overseen the creation of large-scale public health law research projects using legal epidemiology to scientifically analyze and track state, local, and international policies across various public health law domains, including the regulation of reproductive rights, affordable housing, minimum wage, earned income tax credit, civil commitment, and prior authorization policies for pediatric ADHD medications. In addition to managing the creation of CPHLR projects, Lindsay trains government agencies, policymakers, researchers, and other external organizations on the tools and transdisciplinary methods used in public health law research with an aim towards applying law as an intervention to influence better health, well-being, and equity. She serves as an adjunct professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law teaching courses in public health law and empirical legal research methods.

MODERATOR:

James
Buszkiewicz
James Buszkiewicz
University of Michigan
Dr. Buszkiewicz is a social epidemiologist who applies both epidemiologic and econometric methods to understand how policy can address key structural determinants of health, such as income inequity, structural racism, and the built environment. To date, his work has examined the impact of raising state minimum wages on health and mental well-being, the influence of measures of the built environment and food environment on body weight trajectories, and the influence of policy changes in response to COVID-19 on diet quality and food insecurity. As part of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, and the Center for the Assessment of Tobacco and Health (CAsToR), his work examines how the Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco control policies, such as couponing and flavoring in cigar products, may be used as a tool to reduce racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in tobacco use behaviors and health.

PANELIST:

Adrienne
Ghorashi
Adrienne Ghorashi
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Adrienne R. Ghorashi, Esq. is a Lead Law and Policy Analyst at Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research, where she leads multidisciplinary legal epidemiology studies tracking and evaluating the public health impact of laws. She is an attorney, academic researcher, and social justice activist. Her expertise is in sexual and reproductive health laws, with a focus on US and global abortion access. Her work also includes intersecting issues of health and equity, such as housing inequality, healthcare access, criminalization, and immigrants’ rights. She maintains annual updates to the Center’s State Abortion Laws database and is an expert on the rapidly shifting legal landscape of abortion regulation. Adrienne is a Society of Family Planning (SFP) Changemakers in Family Planning grantee and currently serves as co-chair of APHA’s Abortion Task Force. Her policy research and commentary has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, conferences, blogs, and the media.
In addition to her academic and legal career, Adrienne is an active member of the Philadelphia community. She is chair of community engagement for the ACLU of Pennsylvania board, and a board member of the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA, an abortion fund serving the Philadelphia area. Prior to joining the Center, she was a legal fellow at ACLU-PA, where she worked on federal impact litigation targeting over-policing and prison conditions, and defending free speech, religious freedom, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice. She is a proud child of immigrants and political asylees, which greatly influenced her intersectional perspective, and is the first in her family to become a lawyer. Adrienne earned her JD at Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2014, where she was awarded as a Rubin-Presser public interest scholar, and is admitted to practice in PA and NJ.

PANELIST:

Kathleen
Moran-McCabe
Kathleen Moran-McCabe
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Katie Moran-McCabe is a Lead Law and Policy Analyst with the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR). Ms. Moran-McCabe has worked on datasets regarding e-cigarettes, office-based surgery, and unemployment insurance laws. She also conducts research on a variety of housing issues for the Legal Levers for Health Equity through Housing project, as well as for the Five Essential Public Health Law Services project.
Prior to joining CPHLR, Ms. Moran-McCabe worked as the Director of Enforcement with the Fair Housing Rights Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania, where she advocated for victims of housing discrimination. Ms. Moran-McCabe filed several fair housing complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and assisted in negotiating settlements that resulted in significant relief for the complainants. Ms. Moran-McCabe also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Mary C. Jacobson, A.J.S.C. in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Mercer County. Ms. Moran-McCabe graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, and earned her JD degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Ms. Moran-McCabe is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

PANELIST:

Sabrina
Ruchelli
Sabrina Ruchelli
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Sabrina Ruchelli is a Law and Policy Analyst with the Policy Surveillance Program at the Center for Public Health Law Research. In that capacity she is responsible for researching, building, and coding legal datasets on a wide variety of public health topics, including tobacco pricing strategies and medication assisted treatment for opioid addictions. Sabrina joined the Program as a postgraduate Catalyst Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
While in law school, Sabrina had internships with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, working on a variety of civil and criminal matters, and with the City of Philadelphia Law Department, working with attorneys in the city’s Regulatory Affairs division. She also participated in the Penn Law Civil Practice Clinic, representing and counseling clients as a student attorney on a broad array of civil issues. Sabrina also served as an Executive Editor for Volume 167 of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and was one of the inaugural recipients of the Toll Public Interest Fellowship.
Sabrina graduated with a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2019, and with a B.A. in History from the University of Delaware in 2015.

Communicating Controversial Science

June 1, 2023 at 12:00PM EDT

Every now and then scientists produce research findings that challenge accepted narratives in public health and academia or even their own assumptions about what’s right and wrong. Maybe they find that a favored gun policy does not reduce gun violence, or that having an abortion causes emotional distress. Scientists can’t self-censor: they need to share all evidence that sheds light on the issues they study. However, colleagues have been known to respond to findings such as these with resistance or even censure. What should scientists do if they have controversial findings? Can they disseminate these in a way that promotes constructive discussion? How can they prepare for any negative attention their findings might provoke? This webinar convenes scientists who have had experience with these issues along with experts in the communication of science to search out and share helpful guidance for anyone facing this situation.

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PANELIST:

Cynthia Colen
Cynthia Colen
Associate Professor in Sociology, Ohio State University
Cynthia Colen is a social demographer whose research intersects the fields of public health and sociology. She is currently an Associate Professor in Sociology and a research affiliate of the Institute for Population Research at Ohio State University. Dr. Colen received her Ph.D. in Health Behavior & Education from the University of Michigan and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University. Broadly defined, her work examines the causes and consequences of racial disparities in health within the United States, with a particular emphasis on middle-class African Americans. She is interested in examining the intricate ways that socioeconomic status and race interact to produce health disparities. Her research is largely quantitative and highlights lifecourse processes within a single generation as well as across multiple generations. Dr. Colen has published in multiple outlets including the American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, Annual Review of Sociology, DuBois Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Milbank Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Social Science and Medicine-Population Health.

PANELIST:

Gregg Gonsalves
Gregg Gonsalves
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School
Gregg Gonsalves is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale Law School. He also holds positions at the Yale Institute for Global Health. He is an expert in policy modeling on infectious disease and substance use, as well as the intersection of public policy and health equity. His research focuses on the use of quantitative models for improving the response to epidemic diseases. For more than 30 years, he worked on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues with several organizations, including the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa. He is a 2011 graduate of Yale College and received his PhD from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/School of Public Health in 2017. He is currently the public health correspondent for The Nation. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.

PANELIST:

Tiffany Green
Tiffany Green
Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tiffany Green is an economist, population health scientist, and science communicator whose mission is to reduce and eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in reproductive health. Her primary research agenda is motivated by a persistent unsolved puzzle: how and why Black people with the capacity for pregnancy experience the worst reproductive health access and outcomes of any racial/ethnic group—and what innovative solutions might ameliorate these persistent inequities. She is currently Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a Temple Center for Public Health Law Research Fellow and is a University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Centennial Scholar. Dr. Green earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in economics from Florida A&M University.
As a science communicator, Dr. Green is dedicated to making complex issues accessible to policymakers and lay public. She has used her expertise to promote evidence-based policy via legislative testimony and participation on panels for legislators. She has provided interviews for numerous local and national media outlets on reproductive equity and the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

PANELIST:

Harold Pollack
Harold Pollack
Helen Ross Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice at the University of Chicago. He is an Affiliate Professor in the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division and the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Pollack co-directs the University of Chicago Urban Health Lab. Dr. Pollack’s research regularly appears in Health Services Research, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. His popular journalism has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Vox, Atlantic Monthly, and other publications. He regularly advises local, state, and federal policymakers on public health, addiction, and crime policy. Most pertinent for today’s presentation, he is an expert on personal finance, and co-author with Helaine Olen, of the best-selling book: The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to be Complicated.

MODERATOR:

Sarah Gollust
Sarah Gollust
Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Sarah Gollust is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She is a member of the Collaborative on Media and Messaging for Health & Social Policy, an interdisciplinary group of researchers who study how media and messaging shape public opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Dr. Gollust is a social scientist studying the intersections of communication, politics, and health policy. In her past research, she has examined media influences and public opinion around significant health policy issues, including obesity, health equity, the Affordable Care Act, and cancer screening. She also examines how research is translated into health policymaking. Dr. Gollust was a RWJF Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2010 and she received her PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy from the University of Michigan.

The Nuts and Bolts of Using An Intersectionality Framework in Population Health Research

May 18, 2023 at 12:00PM EDT

Intersectionality examines the impacts of overlapping systems of oppression including racism, sexism, classism, homophobia and other forms of inequality and is increasingly being used in population health research. During this webinar, we will convene a panel of experts who will share how they have applied an intersectional framework in their own work. Please join us for a discussion on how this framework can be used in a population health context, including the benefits and challenges of using it in your research, and new and innovative ways of measuring intersectionality. The webinar will begin with a moderated discussion with the panelists followed by a Q&A session with attendees.

RECORDING

PANELIST:

Natalie Sabik
Natalie Sabik
University of Rhode Island
Natalie J. Sabik is an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Sabik received a joint Ph.D. in psychology and women’s studies from the University of Michigan and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health psychology at Brandeis University. Her work spans the fields of psychology, gender studies, and public health, and she examines how health and well-being are shaped by a variety of social and identity factors, such as body perceptions, stress, social interactions, gender roles, and aging. Her work integrates an intersectional perspective that examines these factors in the context of different demographic and identity categories. She is a consulting editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly and her work has been recognized by the American Public Health Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the American Psychological Association, and she is a fellow of the Institute for Academic Feminist Psychology.

PANELIST:

Stephanie Hernandez
Stephanie Hernandez
Drexel University
Stephanie Hernandez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Dornslife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Her research agenda spans three broad areas including documenting, understanding, and addressing sexual and gender minority health disparities, operationalizing intersectionality in health disparities research, and incorporating biosocial approaches to better understanding health disparities across the life course. Prior to joining Drexel, Stephanie completed her postdoctoral training at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephanie holds a doctoral degree in demography from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a master’s degree in demography and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Florida State University.

PANELIST:

Patricia Homan
Patricia Homan
Florida State University
Patricia (Trish) Homan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Public Health Program at Florida State University. She is also an associate of FSU’s Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and the Center for Demography and Population Health. Her research focuses on developing theory and measurement for structural sexism, structural racism, and other forms of structural oppression, and examining how these forces shape health. Her work has been published in American Sociological Review, Demography, American Journal of Public Health, The Milbank Quarterly, Health Affairs, Social Forces, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, The Gerontologist, and The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, among other outlets. Her research has won multiple national awards including the 2022 NIH Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Award, the 2022 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from SWS South, the 2021 ASA Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Article Award, and the 2019 Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award from the ASA Medical Sociology Section. Dr. Homan earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University before joining FSU in 2018.

PANELIST:

Stephanie Cook
Stephanie Cook
New York University
Dr. Cook is an assistant professor in the departments of Biostatistics and Social and Behavioral Sciences and at New York University School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the Attachment and Health Disparities Research Lab (AHDL). Dr. Stephanie Cook’s overarching research focus is to understand how structural- and individual-level minority stressors (i.e., violence, discrimination, and hate) contribute to mental health, physical health, and health behaviors across the life span and in the virtual and physical worlds. Further, she seeks to understand how features of close relationships can exacerbate or buffer the negative effects of minority stress on health. Her work primarily focuses on young adults transitioning to adulthood who are at the intersection of racial/ethnic and sexual orientation status. In addition, much of her current work examines the links between minority stress (i.e., daily experiences of discrimination) and biological markers of stress and disease (e.g., cortisol and c-reactive protein). Dr. Cook’s substantive methodological and statistical focus is in the development and application of longitudinal study designs (i.e., intensive longitudinal designs) for determining the ways in which dynamic changes in features of minority stress (e.g., daily and momentary discrimination events) are associated with changes in risk behaviors and physical health (e.g., sexual risk and substance use, pre-clinical cardiovascular disease, and biological stress) among racial/ethnic and/or sexual minority young adults. Dr. Cook has won numerous awards for her research, service, and teaching including the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Early-Stage Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health and the Emerging Scholar recognition from Diverse Magazine.

Racialization and Global Racial Hierarchies

April 4-5, 2023

We will convene the RacismLab symposium in two parts. The first part, on April 4, 2023 (1:00pm-4:30pm EDT) will include a keynote panel of four speakers on racialization (including a short break between speakers 2 and 3); and after a 30-minute break, we will reconvene with a one-hour discussion on measurement of racialization. The panel will be live from the University of Michigan and cast over zoom to anyone. The second part, on April 5, 2023 (1:00pm-4:00pm EDT) will be two student-led panels on race and health and will be over zoom only. Registration is required.

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Webinar: Speaking Science on Social Media

March 2, 2023
12:00PM EDT

Recording

Hear from scientists who have used social media to communicate their population health knowledge and research and learn how to choose and create your own program of science dissemination.

PANELISTS

Sirry Alang, Associate Professor, Health and Human Development, University of Pittsburgh
Sirry Alang, Ph.D. is a Health Services Researcher and a Medical Sociologist. Her research explores the role of social structures and institutions in creating health inequities. In particular, she examines how racism impacts health outcomes, and shapes the organization and delivery of health care. Her research has appeared in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Health Services Research, and the American Journal of Public Health. She has also published opinions in outlets like the Daily Beast, Salon and USA Today. Dr. Alang earned her Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She obtained an M.A. in Sociology from Lehigh University and a B.Sc. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Buea in Cameroon. She is currently an Associate Professor of Black Communities and the Social Determinants of Health at the University of Pittsburgh.

Bryan Buckley, Director for Health Equity Initiatives at the National Committee for Quality Assurance
Dr. Bryan O. Buckley is the Director for Health Equity Initiatives at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), where he supports NCQA’s Health Equity strategy across multiple departments to better integrate health equity concepts into existing programs and projects. Dr. Buckley serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he teaches, coaches, supports, and supervises graduate students at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Graduate Education. He is a Board Member of the American Public Health Association, American Heart Association Greater Washington, DC Region, and Food & Friends.

Julia Raifman, Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management, Boston University
Julia Raifman, ScD, SM conducts research on how health and social polices shape population health and health disparities. She created and leads the COVID-19 U.S. State Policy Database (CUSP), tracking more than 200 state policies to prevent COVID-19 and reduce economic hardship during the pandemic. Her research on unemployment insurance and food insufficiency helped inform the American Rescue Plan and she is a collaborator on a study indicating that lifting state eviction freezes was associated with increased COVID-19 cases and deaths, a finding that helped uphold a federal eviction moratorium until the fall of 2021. She has also documented how structural racism shaped disparities in susceptibility to severe illness due to COVID-19. Dr.Raifman also conducts research on structural drivers of mental distress, HIV, and disparities in both conditions. She earned her doctoral degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins before joining Boston University.

MODERATOR

Richard Carpiano, Professor of Public Policy, University of California Riverside
Richard M. Carpiano is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. A public and population health scientist and medical sociologist by training, Carpiano studies how social factors, such as socioeconomic status, race-ethnicity, social connections, and community conditions, contribute to the health of adults and children. A substantial focus of Carpiano’s research concerns social, behavioral, attitudinal, and policy factors underlying vaccination uptake and coverage (and refusal or delay). As part of this work, Carpiano is presently a member of the Lancet’s Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the United States. More recently, Carpiano’s research- and policy-related activities have also centered on pandemic preparedness and response. He is a co-principal investigator of Resilient, a National Science Foundation-funded team initiative focused on improving pandemic preparedness through fostering community resilience, and member of the California Council on Science and Technology’s COVID-19 Task Force, which aims to link science and technology expertise to state policy-makers regarding how California can be more resilient to public health threats.

Beyond his research, policy, teaching, and mentoring activities, Carpiano engages extensively with news media on a wide range of public health and sociological topics. During the pandemic, he has provided commentary on a variety of issues related to COVID-19. Carpiano is a former editor (with Brian Kelly of Purdue University) of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, published by the American Sociological Association.
Carpiano received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Sociomedical Sciences (with concentration in Sociology) from Columbia University, his M.P.H. from Case Western Reserve University, and M.A. and B.A. in Sociology from Baylor University. From 2004-2006, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

INTRODUCTION

Kelley Akiya, Doctoral Student at the NYU School of Global Public Health
Kelley Akiya is a doctoral student in Public Health Policy and Management at the NYU School of Global Public Health. She studies the relationship between unmet social needs and health care use and the integration of social care into health care delivery. Her dissertation is focused on understanding the longitudinal association between food insecurity and health care use among older adults in the U.S. She has also conducted research on primary care-based social work and care navigation services for older adults with complex health needs.
Prior to entering her doctoral program, Kelley received her MPA in Public Policy from the University of Texas Austin and her BA in Psychology and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis. She also worked as a program evaluator, studying the effectiveness of health care, education, international development, and workforce development interventions.

Warts and All: Successes and Failures in Population Health Grant Writing

February 16, 2023
12:00PM – 1:30PM EDT

Recording

Warts and All: Successes and Failures in Population Health Grant Writing In our professional lives, we tend to talk a lot more about our successes than our failures. This can give a misleading impression of how hard our jobs can be, and that can contribute to impostor syndrome and anxiety. For example, if you only hear about the grants that a senior faculty member received, you might mistakenly think that they get every grant they apply for – and, when your own grant is rejected, you might think this means you’ll never be as successful as them. Conversely, you might feel a little better if you know that the same senior faculty member had a lot of grants rejected before they got those few grants funded. Read more

PRESENTERS:

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Kathleen Harris
Kathleen Mullan Harrisis the James E. Haar distinguished professor of sociology, adjunct professor of public policy, and faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on social inequality and health with particular interests in health disparities, biodemography, sociogenomics, and life course and aging processes. Dr. Harris served as director and principal investigator of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) from 2004-2021 (deputy director 1999-2004). She developed Add Health into a landmark study funded by NIH institutes and agencies in which she integrated biological and genomic data for scientific study of developmental and health trajectories across the early life course.
Dr. Harris works with an interdisciplinary set of scholars from sociology, epidemiology, nutrition, economics, cardiology, genetics, and survey methods to publish research on such topics as the health effects of despair, isolation and stress, social genetic effects, health costs of upward mobility, and the obesity epidemic and young adult health. She was awarded the Golden Goose Award from the US Congress in 2016 for major breakthroughs in medicine, social behavior, and technological research. Dr. Harris is past president of the Population Association of America and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the chair of the Committee on Population at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She has a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Hayward
Mark Hayward is a professor of sociology, Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts, a faculty research associate of the Population Research Center, and director of the Population Health Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Training Director of the Population Research Center. He recently served as the the president of the Southern Demographic Association, chair of the Aging and Life Course section of the American Sociological Association, and is the chair of the Sociology of Population section of the ASA. He has served on the boards of the Population Association of America and the Society of Biodemography and Social Biology, and he was a member and then chair of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research council. Currently, he is a member of the Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Center for Health Statistics. He recently served on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health and Society Scholars Program. Hayward received his Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University in 1981.
His primary research addresses how life course exposures and events influence the morbidity and mortality experiences of the adult population. Recent studies have clarified how early life conditions influence socioeconomic, race and gender disparities in adult morbidity and mortality; the demography of race/ethnic and gender disparities in healthy life expectancy; social inequality in the biomarkers of aging, and the health consequences of marriage, divorce, and widowhood. Most recently, he has been investigating the fundamental inequalities in adult mortality in the United States arising from educational experience, differences in these associations by race and gender, and trends in inequality in mortality. Currently, he is part of a national scientific team examining the role of federal and state policies shaping the growing inequality in life chances in the US adult population. His research on these topics has been by the National Institute on Aging and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. His recently published work has appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, Demography, the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science and Medicine.
Professor Hayward has served on a number of scientific advisory boards at universities around the country as well as the National Institutes of Health, private foundations and federal agencies. He has a long-standing interest in enhancing the measurement and collection of population health data, particularly longitudinal data, and has served on the advisory boards of a number of national studies of population health.

Bruce Link
Dr. Bruce Link is Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, University of California Riverside and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Link received his Ph.D. (Sociology) and Masters (Biostatistics) from Columbia University. Awards include the Leonard Pearlin Award for career achievement from the Mental Health Section of the American Sociological Association, the Leo G. Reeder Award from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, and the Rema Lapouse Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association. He was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2002. Dr. Link’s interests are centered on topics in psychiatric and social epidemiology as they bear on policy issues. He has written on the connection between socioeconomic status and health, homelessness, violence, stigma, and discrimination. With Jo Phelan, he has advanced the theory of social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. He currently conducts research on the life course origins of health inequalities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, consequences of social stigma for life chances among people who are subject to stigma, and evaluating intervention efforts aimed at reducing mental illness stigma in children attending middle school.

Roland J. Thorpe Jr.
Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society (HBS), Founding Director of the Program on Research for Men’s Health in the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS), Deputy Director of the HCHDS, and Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center for Minority Aging. His research focuses on race-, place- and SES-related disparities across the life course in functional and health status of community-dwelling adults with a focus on African American men. Most of his work has been funded by NIA and NIMHD. He has published is various outlets including Journal of Gerontology Medical Sciences, Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, and Biodemography and Social Biology. He has also edited the 39th Volume of the Annual Review of Geriatrics and Gerontology entitled Men’s’ Health and Aging (Springer 2019) and co-edited the Men’s HealthEquity: A Handbook (Routledge 2019).

Abstract Writing Workshop

January 26, 2023

5:30-6:30PM EDT

**Must be an IAPHS Student Member.
Registration Capacity is 50 Registrants

Join the IAPHS Student Conference Committee in this 60-min abstract writing workshop. This workshop is for students interested in submitting a conference abstract for the upcoming annual meeting or to a professional conference elsewhere. We will cover the basics of writing an abstract, review samples, and share helpful strategies to assist in a successful submission.

Facilitators:

Akliah Collins-Anderson, Washington University in St. Louis
Bee Ben Khallouq, University of Central Florida
Carlyn Graham, Pennsylvania State University

Webinar: Securing Funding for Applied Research

October 20, 2022

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

Recording

Learn about private and public funding sources for applied research in population health and strategies for making your search for funding a success.

Webinar: Forging Research Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations

July 28, 2022

12:00-1:00pm Eastern

Join us for a panel discussion on building research partnerships with community-based organizations as a doctoral student, post-doc, or early career researcher.

Recording

Panelist

Mónica Gutiérrez, PhD
University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work

BIO
Dr. Mónica Gutiérrez (pronouns she/her/ella) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. Her current and future research is motivated by her intersecting identities as a Mexicana raised near the Mexicali-Imperial Valley border and the years spent growing up in California’s Central Coast Region. Having been a first-generation Latina/o college graduate herself, she has a strong desire to help other first-generation Latina/o students succeed. She spent her undergraduate years in the San Francisco Bay Area (Yay Area!!) where she attended San Francisco State University earning a Bachelor of Arts in Chicano Studies and a minor in Industrial Design. She earned her masters and doctorate degrees from the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She is a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar Program and an Affiliated Researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Panelist

Libby McClure, PhD
DataWorks NC

BIO
Libby McClure is a health data analyst with DataWorks NC, a Durham-based nonprofit whose mission is to conduct community-driven research and data democratization projects about housing and environmental equity, and a postdoctoral research fellow with the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work is focused on the ways in which historical and structural inequalities produce health disparities. She seeks involvement in social and environmental justice-focused research that both critically complicates traditional study of health and illness while also supporting social change.

Panelist

Kristefer Stojanovski, PhD
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

BIO
Kristefer Stojanovski completed his doctorate in health education and behavior at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. During his doctoral studies, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar and a National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities Global Alliance for Training in Health Equity Research fellow. Kristefer has also completed dual master’s degrees in public health epidemiology and in health management and policy at the University of Michigan. With training in epidemiology, health policy, and the social and behavioral sciences, Dr. Stojanovski leverages interdisciplinary and community-based methods to conduct global research to discern structural influences on LGBTQ+ and ethnic minority health across countries. His work utilizes a breadth of theories and methods, such as Complex Systems Theory, legal epidemiology, mixed-methods, computational modeling, community-based participatory research, and systematic reviews. He also conducts evaluation research on health systems strengthening strategies. His dissertation explored how stigmatizing policies influence MSM health and HIV prevention in Europe, utilizing Complex Systems Theory, computational and multi-level modeling to portray how the interacting pathways of limited policy protections, their mental health effects, and subsequent influence on sexual behavior socially pattern HIV risk. At Tulane, Dr. Stojanovski will further health equity research exploring questions of study design and measurement of the structural determinants of health. His work is part of the Partners for Advancing Health Equity Learning Collaborative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Innovations in Health Equity.

Webinar: Bridging Research with Community Practice

July 21, 2022

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

Recording

How scientists can contribute knowledge and research skills to population health practice in local communities by engaging with community organizations, building sustainable long-term relationships, and structuring meaningful and equitable collaborations.

“Building a Professional Network of Population Health Scientists”

May 19, 2022

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

Recording

The focus of the panel discussion is to discuss: 1) the rationale for; 2) the implications of; and 3) strategies for professional network building in population health.

Panelist

Christine Bachrach, PhD
University of Maryland

BIO
Christine Bachrach is Senior Advisor to the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) and Research Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Bachrach spent much of her career promoting the health-related social sciences at the US National Institutes of Health, first as Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and subsequently as the NIH Acting Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. After leaving the NIH in 2010, she was Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; co-directed the National Program Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program; and served as President of the Population Association of America. She helped to found IAPHS in 2015 and served as its Managing Director and then Executive Director during its first four years. A social demographer and population health scientist, her interests span the social determinants of health, health disparities, fertility and family, culture and the brain, and the training/mentoring of health scientists.

Panelist

Marino Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv
University of Houston

BIO
Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the University of Houston College of Medicine as well as Founding Director of the Program for Research on Faith, Justice, and Health. Dr. Bruce is a sociologist who examines the full range of determinants as they relate to the onset and progression of chronic diseases among African American males over the life course and across generations. He is a former editor of Research on Race and Ethnic Relations, current associate editor of Ethnicity and Disease and Behavioral Medicine, and co-editor of two recent books, Men’s Health Equity and Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional. Dr. Bruce is also an ordained Baptist minister and his current work leveraging professional, educational, and clerical experiences has been featured on numerous global media outlets including USA Today, The Today Show, and Time Magazine. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Davidson College and master’s degrees in Rural Sociology, Divinity, and Rehabilitation Counseling from North Carolina State University, Piedmont Theological Seminary, and Winston Salem State University, respectively. Dr. Bruce earned a PhD in Sociology from North Carolina State University and received postdoctoral training in Family Medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Biobehavioral Health from Duke University.

Panelist

Deborah L. Heiltzer, ScD
Arizona State University

BIO
Deborah Helitzer is dean and professor of the College of Health Solutions (CHS) at Arizona State University.
Dr. Helitzer leads a vibrant interdisciplinary college of about 7,300 students enrolled in 19 undergraduate and 23 graduate health-related degree programs on seven campuses and online. Under her guidance, CHS is committed to its mission to translate health research into practice and prepare tomorrow’s health workforce to address the challenges facing people and communities.
With more than 40 years of experience in health and higher education, Helitzer has held institutional leadership positions since 2005 at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and ASU. Prior to joining ASU in 2017, Helitzer was Founding Dean of the College of Population Health at UNM, where she led the development and implementation of the nation’s first undergraduate degree in population health.
As a scholar, Helitzer’s research focuses on health outcome improvements through interventions in communities and in clinical settings. She has collaborated with researchers studying diabetes, injury prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, cancer, and obesity prevention.
Since 2009, Helitzer has worked to address the needs for mentorship and career development of women faculty in academic medical centers. She has been an author on more than 100 publications, three books and eight book chapters and has led or significantly contributed to over $65 million of population health research.
She earned her Doctor of Science in International Health from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and B.A. in Communications from Washington University in St. Louis.

Panelist

Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD
Johns Hopkins University

BIO
Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD, is Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity at John Hopkins University. He is also Professor of Health, Behavior and Society, Founding Director of the Program on Research for Men’s Health in the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS), and Deputy Director of the HCHDS in the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as well Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center for Minority Aging. His research focuses on race-, place- and SES-related disparities across the life course in functional and health status of community-dwelling adults with a focus on African American men. Most of his work has been funded by NIA and NIMHD. He has published is various outlets including Journal of Gerontology Medical Sciences, Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, and Biodemography and Social Biology. He has also edited the 39^th Volume of the Annual Review of Geriatrics and Gerontology entitled Men’s’ Health and Aging (Springer 2019) and co-edited the Men’s HealthEquity: A Handbook (Routledge 2019).

Moderator

Alyssa Kumler, M.A.
MPH Candidate, Harvard T.H. Chan

BIO
Alyssa Kumler is a member of the IAPHS professional development committee. She is currently a master of public health candidate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a graduate intern at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health within the Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention. Her work aims to improve population health and focuses on social determinants of health, reproductive and sexual health, contraceptive use, and bodily autonomy. Before attending Harvard University, Alyssa earned a master’s degree in sociology and holds undergraduate degrees in both psychology and sociology.

Webinar: Making Research Actionable for State & Local Policymakers

March 31, 2022

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

Recording

Learn what policymakers need from you to inform their decision-making and how to connect and communicate with them effectively.

Webinar: NIH and Foundation Graduate and Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities

March 24, 2022

12:00-1:00pm Eastern

Recording

The purpose of this webinar is to help orient IAPHS students to the variety of funding sources available either for dissertation completion or postdoctoral study. We anticipate opening the webinar with an overview of funding in general (max 10 mins), and then invite each of the three funding agency representatives to give a brief overview of their relevant mechanisms (8-10 mins each). We will leave at least 20 minutes for Q&A. A member of the IAPHS student committee will moderate the discussion.

Speaker

Jennifer Ailshire
University of Southern California

BIO
Jennifer Ailshire, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Gerontology, Sociology, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD in Sociology and Demography from the University of Michigan. Dr. Ailshire is a co-Investigator of the Gateway to Global Aging Data, co-Investigator and the Analysis Core Lead of the USC AD-RCMAR, and the USC PI of the multi-site Network on Life Course and Health Dynamics and Disparities. Dr. Ailshire’s research focuses on identifying the origins of social disparities in health and aging and examining how differential socioenvironmental exposures and experiences influence physical and cognitive health among older adults. A consistent theme throughout her work is an interest in gender, socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic inequality in health. Current projects include research on the links between air pollution and health in older adults, neighborhood determinants of health and well-being among people with dementia and their caregivers, and cognitive and physical health among older adults in Latin America.

Speaker

Juanita Chinn
NICHD

BIO
Juanita J. Chinn, Ph.D. is a sociologist and demographer in the Population Dynamics Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), where she directs the Demography of Health, Demography of Health Disparities, Human Morbidity and Mortality, and Population Composition programs. Dr. Chinn earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology, with a specialization in demography, from the University of Texas at Austin. She trained as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She holds an Sc.B. in applied mathematics and psychology from Brown University.

Speaker

Sheldon Watts
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

BIO
Sheldon Oliver Watts, program officer, joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in 2019, bringing his expertise in academic and community settings to his work with the Foundation’s Research, Evaluation, and Learning (REL) unit. Through his work he weds his interest and experience in population/community health and well-being with RWJF’s goal of advancing health equity and promoting a Culture of Health. He views his role as contributing to the Foundation’s multi-pronged approach to health, furthering its respect for diversity and inclusion, and supporting its resolve in tackling health inequities. As he puts it: ‘We are tapping into complicated and sealed systems using novel collaborative strategies; focusing on equity; and reducing inequity in health and well-being across the lifespan.”
Previously, Sheldon was the national director of the Council on Black Health (formerly the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN)), and a clinical research professor at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Department of Community Health and Prevention. He also served as the director of undergraduate studies and assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Temple University, Philadelphia. In this position, he was instrumental in instituting an undergraduate intensive 4+1 Master of Public Health option that enabled exceptional public health students to earn a graduate degree in Public Health in five years rather than six.
Sheldon also served as research coordinator for the New York University FAITH (Faith-Based Approaches in the Treatment of Hypertension), a research study on the feasibility and efficacy of a therapeutic blood pressure reduction program. In addition, he has held other teaching positions at New York University in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. He earned his PhD in nutrition from New York University; his MPH from Boston University; and his BS from Cornell University.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y, he spent his formative years in Houston before settling back in the Northeast. He presently lives just outside of Philadelphia, in Wynnewood, Pa.
Sheldon enjoys reading, listening to a broad range of music, cooking, landscaping, and spending time with his family. On family holidays, he and his wife make it a point to expose their children to new spaces, cultures, or ideas that are intellectualy stimulating, exciting, and enjoyable.

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Aixa Cintron-Velez
Russell Sage Foundation

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Aixa Cintrón-Vélez is Program Director at the Russell Sage Foundation. At RSF, she manages the scientific portfolio for the Future of Work program and for the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration program. She has also directed Foundation initiatives on the Socioeconomic and Political Effects of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the U.S.; Care Work; Immigration and Cultural Contact; Race and Policing; and the Causes and Consequences of Low Wage Work in Advanced Industrial Economies.
Before joining Russell Sage, she was a Research Associate at the Center for Hispanic Mental Health Research, and taught in the Graduate School of Social Service, at Fordham University. Prior to Fordham, she was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she taught research methods and social policy. She has done research and written about urban and low-wage labor markets, and the family, employment and migration careers of Latinas in the United States.
Earlier in her career, she directed a vocational counseling and training program for low-income women at Casa Central, a large Hispanic social services agency in Chicago’s North side. She was an NIPC Fellow in Intergovernmental Affairs with the City of Chicago’s Department of Planning, and she was Program Officer for Education and Economic Development at the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation.
She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Welfare Policy from the University of Michigan, an A.M. in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico.

Moderator

Natalie Smith
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Moderator

Kelley Akiya
New York University

Webinar: Abstract Writing Workshop

February 22, 2022

5:00-6:00pm Eastern

NOTE: THIS EVENT IS RESERVED FOR CURRENT IAPHS STUDENT MEMBERS.

If you are not a current member, click here to join us!

Writing a clear and concise conference abstract can be difficult. This workshop will help students, whether they are interested in submitting to the upcoming IAPHS conference or a professional conference elsewhere. We will discuss the basics of a conference abstract, review samples, and share helpful strategies and resources.

Space is limited, register early!

Facilitator

Akilah Collins-Anderson
Washington University in St. Louis

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Julene Kemp Cooney
Syracuse University

Webinar: Communicating Research Through the Print and Broadcast Media

January 20, 2022

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

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An expert panel discusses the keys to success when communicating with journalists or being interviewed about your research.

Webinar: Rewarding engaged scholarship in the academy: Strategies and successes

October 7, 2021

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

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Conducting engaged scholarship is an essential component of using research to improve population health. Engaged scholarship includes community engaged research, research-to-practice and research-to-policy translation, media communication, and numerous other activities designed generate and disseminate relevant, applicable scholarship to improve population health. However, many scholars in academic positions experience barriers to engaged scholarship due to the structure of most university promotion and tenure standards, which prioritize traditional academic products over engaged, “public-facing” activities.

In this webinar, four panelists will discuss strategies for amending university incentive structures to recognize engaged scholarship and share success stories of changes at several major US universities. The panel will be moderated by Julie Maslowsky, PhD, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Panelist

John Saltmarsh, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Boston

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John Saltmarsh, PhD is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has published widely on community engaged teaching, learning and research, and organizational change in higher education, including, the co-edited book with Mathew Johnson, “The Elective Carnegie Community Engagement Classification: Constructing a Successful Application for First-Time and Re-Classification Applicants” (2017), the co-edited book “Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education” (2016) the edited volume with Matthew Hartley, “‘To Serve a Larger Purpose:’ Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education” (2011) and with Edward Zlotkowski, “Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement” (2011). He is the co-author of the “Democratic Engagement White Paper” (NERCHE, 2009) and “Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement in Higher Education” (Columbia University Law School: Center for Institutional and Social Change, 2011). He is a Distinguished Engaged Scholar at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, where he leads the project in which the Swearer Center serves as the administrative partner with the Carnegie Foundation for elective Community Engagement Classification. He is also a Visiting Scholar with College Unbound in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Emily J. Ozer, PhD
University of California, Berkeley

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Emily J. Ozer, PhD is a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Professor Ozer teaches graduate courses in behavioral science theory, mental health, community interventions and program evaluation. Her research interests include school-based health promotion and prevention programs, post-traumatic stress disorder and community-based participatory research. She is particularly interested in how the school and classroom contexts in which prevention programs are implemented affect outcomes. Her current research involves a multi-method study of the impact of an empowerment-oriented participatory research intervention on adolescents attending San Francisco public schools. Dr. Ozer has worked to shepherd changes to promotion and tenure guidelines in the University of California system.

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Byron White, Ed.D
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Byron White, Ed.D. is Associate Provost for Urban Research and Community Engagement at University of North Carolina Charlotte. He leads the Office of Urban Research and Community Engagement, which works to connect UNC Charlotte and the community through research, collaboration, and engaged scholarship that builds a thriving, inclusive region. Goals include enhancing interdisciplinary partnerships to increase access to community-based learning and community-engaged research, streamlining collaboration among shared research, and expanding community partnerships. In previous work, White led the successful applications for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification at both Cleveland State University and Xavier University by facilitating the co-design of strategies to demonstrate alignment of curriculum and research with the changing demands of an urban workforce and civic needs. He also co-developed programs to support engaged scholarship through grants for community-engaged research, training by industry experts, and community recognition.

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Adam Gamoran, PhD
William T. Grant Foundation

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Adam Gamoran, PhD is President of the William T. Grant foundation. There, he provides leadership for the William T. Grant Foundation’s strategic direction, shapes its agenda and tactics, and partners with the Board of Trustees to advance its mission and objectives. Since joining the Foundation, he launched a new initiative to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and has continued the Foundation’s ongoing work to improve the use of research evidence in policy and practice decisions that affect young people. From 1984 to 2013, he served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he held the John D. MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Educational Policy Studies. From 2001-2004, he chaired the Department of Sociology, and from 2004-2013 he directed the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Education, which he now serves as vice president, and was twice appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Board for Education Sciences.

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Julie Maslowsky, PhD
University of Illinois, Chicago

Webinar: Interdisciplinarity and the Job Market

This event is sponsored by the IAPHS Student Committee

August 26, 2021

12:00-1:00pm Eastern

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This webinar will help students and postdocs begin to navigate the job market as interdisciplinary researchers. We will discuss how to position oneself as an interdisciplinary scholar, and how to communicate the strengths of interdisciplinarity across various hiring committees. Additionally, we will incorporate a short reflection exercise for attendees to begin thinking through their own interdisciplinary applications.

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Reginald Tucker-Seeley, ScD.
University of Southern California
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Karen Fingerman, PhD.
University of Texas at Austin
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Audrey Dorélien, PhD
University of Minnesota
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Matthew Lee
Columbia University

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Natalie Smith
UNC Chapel Hill

Webinar: Race—The Power of an Illusion Part III: The House We Live In

This event is co-sponsored by IAPHS, ISEE, and ISR.

June 3, 2021

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

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Webinar: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research as a Spectrum

May 27, 2021

12:00-1:00pm Eastern

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This webinar will focus on understanding interdisciplinary research as a spectrum. Panelists will speak to conducting interdisciplinary work in all its forms (e.g., from engaging other fields/disciplines in a more consultative way at just one stage or for one piece of a study, to fully integrated studies across all aspects of the study, to potentially “non-disciplinary” work where boundaries aren’t drawn based on how collaborators were trained). The event will take place virtually on: Thursday, May 27th, noon-1pm (eastern time). The session will consist of time for speakers to: (1) introduce themselves; (2) respond to questions about their experiences conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research across settings; and (3) answer questions from the audience.

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Stephanie Cook
NYU College of Global Public Health

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Donald Chi
University of Washington

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Kristen Hassmiller Lich
UNC Chapel Hill

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Matthew Lee
Columbia University

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Natalie Smith
UNC Chapel Hill

Webinar: Race—The Power of an Illusion, Part II: The Story We Tell

This event is co-sponsored by IAPHS, ISEE, and ISR.

May 20, 2021

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

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Webinar: Race—The Power of an Illusion, Part I: The Difference Between Us

This event is co-sponsored by IAPHS, ISEE, and ISR.

May 6, 2021

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

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“COVID-19 and Health Equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities: When No Data Equals No Disparities”

April 1, 2021

12:00-1:30pm Eastern

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Lan Doan, PhD, MPH

Department of Population Health Section for Health Equity, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, MPH

Office of Ambulatory Care and Population Health, New York City Health + Hospitals

Brittany Morey, PhD, MPH

Department of Health, Society, & Behavior, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine

Corina Penaia, MPH

NHPI Data Policy Lab, Asian Pacific Islander Forward Movement, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Stella Yi, PhD, MPH

Department of Population Health Section for Health Equity, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Data – a critical first link to the continuum of research, resource allocation and policymaking – describing the health of Asian American (AA), Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NH&PI) was sorely deficient in pre-COVID times and this deficiency has only been magnified during COVID. Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, we have learned more about the AA and NH&PI COVID experience from community partners, social and mass media, and other countries (e.g., United Kingdom) than from the published scientific literature base in the United States. This blind spot towards AAs and NH&PIs as a community of color deserving of attention and resources reflects implicit bias in the scientific community and society at large.Read more

“Toxic Equilibrium: Structural Racism and Population Health Inequities”

The American social structure is composed of a resilient, symbiotic network of the formal and informal institutions that operate to maintain an equilibrium toward White privilege. Across time and place, changes in one institution can reverberate through other institutions, and importantly, when we attempt to intervene toward equity in one institution, other institutions can move to restore this toxic equilibrium. Cultural racism, which encompasses the socially accepted ideologies, values, and behavioral norms determined by the dominant power group, sets this equilibrium. Particularly insidious as it operates on the level of our shared social subconscious, the processes that comprise cultural racism are invisible to many because they are our “givens”, our assumptions, our defaults – but the result shapes our answers to the question: Whose life counts?

February 24, 2021

10:00am – 6:30pm EDT

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“NIH early career development awards: Advice for interdisciplinary scholar applicants”

NIH offers a series of career development awards (i.e., K awards) for scholars at different career stages to develop new skills and knowledge to support. At the early career stage (i.e., post-doctoral, junior faculty), NIH offers both the K01 and K99/R00 awards that support substantial portions of scholar salaries for up to five years, protected time to develop these new skills and knowledge. However, there are many misconceptions about what these awards are (and what they are not) and how to prepare a strong application. IAPHS presents an interdisciplinary panel of scholars who have successfully secured either K01 or K99/R00 awards from a wide range of NIH institutes. Panelists will discuss how they decided to apply for this type of award, how they developed their applications, and how they have used this award to advance their careers. This webinar is open to IAPHS members and non-members; an archived recording will be available to IAPHS members only.

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

12:00-1:30pm EDT

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K01 from NHLBI

Danya Johnson
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University

K99/R00 from NIA

Grace Noppert
Research Investigator
Survey Research Center
Institute for Social Research
Epidemiology
University of Michigan

K01 - NCI

Tasleem Padamsee, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor of Health Services Management and Policy
The Ohio State University
College of Public Health

K99/R00 - NIA

Lauren Schmitz
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Session Organizer:

Margaret Hicken, MPH, PhD
Survey Research Center
Nephrology
Epidemiology
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

Moderator:

Savannah Larimore
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Sociology
Washington University in St. Louis

“Health Care – Population Health Science Partnerships: What Can and Can’t They Do”

The growing interest in population health approaches among health care entities is creating new opportunities for partnerships between health care systems and population health science. This webinar examines the potential, as well as the challenges and limitations, of these partnerships for advancing population health and equity. Organized and moderated by Sara Curran (University of Washington) and Chris Bachrach (University of Maryland).

Thursday, September 17, 2020
12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

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TIM BRUCKNER

RITA HAMAD

Society Collaboration Event

“Intersections Between Econometric and Epidemiologic Methods for Assessing Impact of Policies and Interventions on Population Health”

The Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) and Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) held a joint webinar featuring Drs. Tim Bruckner and Rita Hamad.

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Professional Development Webinar

“Getting your first NIH Grant”

Are you thinking of developing an NIH proposal to support additional career development or a research project? Are you overwhelmed by the grant writing and submission process? Join us as we convene an interdisciplinary panel of scholars who have ongoing NIH funding and will share their advice about preparing your first NIH career-development or research project grant.

September 10, 2019
12:00 – 1:00pm

Bethany Everett
Department of Sociology
University of Utah

Anjum Hajat
Department of Epidemiology
University of Washington

Jennifer Karras Montez
Department of Sociology
Syracuse University

Morgan Philbin
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University

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Society Collaboration Event

“Causal Inference and Population Health” with Dr. Michael Oakes

The Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) and Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) held a joint webinar featuring Dr. Michael Oakes. Members of all organizations were invited to participate. The recording is available to current IAPHS members.

May 29, 2019
12:00 – 1:00pm EST

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Student Mid-Year Webinar

“Preparing the Next Generation of Population Health Researchers”

A panel of experts will discuss the interdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and partnerships needed to advance health and health equity.

May 2, 2019
12:00 – 1:30pm EST

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Academic Careers: Exploring Institutional Differences and Charting Your Path with Advice from Leading Scholars

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Bridging the Gap: Communicating Research to Policymakers & Beyond

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Financial strain in relation to health and health disparities across places and the life-course

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Stories are Science, Stories are Policies: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities when working with Health Equity Storytellers

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Shifting Power and Advancing Equity in Population Health Webinar Series: How can we shift power and advance equity within our own work?

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The ‘Product Environment’ Is a Driver of Health. It’s Time to Measure It

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Legal epidemiology: Investigating the impact of laws on population health

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Policy and Health Outcomes for Transgender and Gender-diverse Populations
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