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.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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

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

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

Registration

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).

Webinar: Speaking Science on Social Media

March 2, 2023
12:00PM EDT

Registration

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.

PAST EVENTS:

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

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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.

Speaker

Aixa Cintron-Velez
Russell Sage Foundation

BIO

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

Facilitator

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

BIO

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.

Panelist

Emily J. Ozer, PhD
University of California, Berkeley

BIO

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.

Panelist

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

BIO

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.

Panelist

Adam Gamoran, PhD
William T. Grant Foundation

BIO

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.

Moderator

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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IAPHS Online Events

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Abstract Writing Workshop

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

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Webinar: Speaking Science on Social Media

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Webinar: Securing Funding for Applied Research

Webinar: Forging Research Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations

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Webinar: Bridging Research with Community Practice

“Building a Professional Network of Population Health Scientists”

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Webinar: Making Research Actionable for State & Local Policymakers

Webinar: NIH and Foundation Graduate and Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities

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Webinar: Abstract Writing Workshop

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Webinar: Communicating Research Through the Print and Broadcast Media

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

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Webinar: Interdisciplinarity and the Job Market

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

Webinar: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research as a Spectrum

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

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

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

Lan Doan, PhD, MPH

Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, MPH

Brittany Morey, PhD, MPH

Corina Penaia, MPH

Stella Yi, PhD, MPH

“Toxic Equilibrium: Structural Racism and Population Health Inequities”

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

K01 from NHLBI

K99/R00 from NIA

K01 - NCI

K99/R00 - NIA

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

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“Understanding Interdisciplinary Career Paths in Population Health”

“Balancing health and economic considerations in COVID-19 responses: Dilemmas and opportunities for population health”

TIM BRUCKNER

RITA HAMAD

Society Collaboration Event

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

Professional Development Webinar

“Getting your first NIH Grant”

Society Collaboration Event