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
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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Past Events
Student Virtual Pre-Conference Workshop
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.
Academic Careers: Exploring Institutional Differences and Charting Your Path with Advice from Leading Scholars
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.
Bridging the Gap: Communicating Research to Policymakers & Beyond
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.
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Enhancing Productivity in Population Health Science with Sandro Galea
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!
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A People First Approach to Government and the Right to Health
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.
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Financial strain in relation to health and health disparities across places and the life-course
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.
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Abstract Writing Workshop for Students
A workshop for students in which we will discuss tips, review samples, and share helpful strategies for writing a clear and concise conference abstract.
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Stories are Science, Stories are Policies: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities when working with Health Equity Storytellers
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.
An Introduction to Book Publishing at a University Press
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.
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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?
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.
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Work as a Structural and Social Determinant of Health
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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Shifting Power and Advancing Equity in Population Health Webinar Series: How does the history of population health impact our work today?
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 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.
R2A Webinar: Collective Advocacy for Population Health Equity
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.
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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Communicating Controversial Science
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The Nuts and Bolts of Using An Intersectionality Framework in Population Health Research
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Racialization and Global Racial Hierarchies
Webinar: Speaking Science on Social Media
12:00PM EDT
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.
Warts and All: Successes and Failures in Population Health Grant Writing
12:00PM – 1:30PM EDT
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
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Abstract Writing Workshop
**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
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
Join us for a panel discussion on building research partnerships with community-based organizations as a doctoral student, post-doc, or early career researcher.
Webinar: Bridging Research with Community Practice
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”
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.
Webinar: Making Research Actionable for State & Local Policymakers
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
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.
Webinar: Abstract Writing Workshop
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!
Webinar: Communicating Research Through the Print and Broadcast Media
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
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.
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Adam Gamoran, PhD
William T. Grant Foundation
Webinar: Interdisciplinarity and the Job Market
This event is sponsored by the IAPHS Student Committee
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.
Webinar: Race—The Power of an Illusion Part III: The House We Live In
This event is co-sponsored by IAPHS, ISEE, and ISR.
Webinar: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research as a Spectrum
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.
Webinar: Race—The Power of an Illusion, Part II: The Story We Tell
This event is co-sponsored by IAPHS, ISEE, and ISR.
Webinar: Race—The Power of an Illusion, Part I: The Difference Between Us
This event is co-sponsored by IAPHS, ISEE, and ISR.
“COVID-19 and Health Equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities: When No Data Equals No Disparities”
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
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?
Read more“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.
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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“Understanding Interdisciplinary Career Paths in Population Health”
The IAPHS Student Committee is pleased to announce its new three-part training series “Launching a Career as an Interdisciplinary Scholar: A Training Series.” As a collaborative, cross-disciplinary population health organization, IAPHS is uniquely positioned to guide the next generation of population health scholars. The organization’s leadership and members bring a wealth of knowledge and training based on their graduate school experiences, post-graduate professional appointments, and current roles as mentors and supervisors. These experiences provide key insight into the methodological skills, substantive knowledge bases, and professional activities that are most valuable to the development of excellent population health scholars. Furthermore, these diverse experiences provide key insights into the nuances of navigating career paths and opportunities in population health.
The content of this event will focus on highlighting careers across all sectors, including government, industry, non-profits, and academia. Panelists will reflect on the highlights and difficulties of their training, career, and advice to young population health scientists.
Members of all organizations at any level of training (predoctoral, postdoctoral, or faculty) are welcome to participate! This is a moderated event, but attendees will have the opportunity to pose their own original questions to panelists.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
12:00pm – 1:30pm EST
Sanne Magnan MD, PhD
Former Commissioner
Minnesota Department of Health
Philip Alberti, PhD
Senior Director
Health Equity Research and Policy
Association of American Medical Colleges
Bridget Goosby, PhD
Professor of Sociology
University of Texas at Austin
Frederick Zimmerman, PhD
Professor
Health Policy & Management
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
“Balancing health and economic considerations in COVID-19 responses: Dilemmas and opportunities for population health”
The current COVID-19 pandemic has had major negative impacts on both health and economic conditions and has amplified existing health and economic disparities. This has raised many questions and debates about how to balance health and economic considerations in our responses to the pandemic. Join us as we convene an interdisciplinary panel to discuss dilemmas and opportunities for promoting population health in the time of COVID-19.
May 21, 2020
12:00 – 1:00pm EST
Erika Blacksher
Department of Bioethics & Humanities
University of Washington
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.
Professional Development Webinar
“Getting your first NIH Grant”
12:00 – 1:00pm
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