• Epi Postdoc/RA Meeting

  When: Fri May 18, 2012 11:45am to 1:15pm CDT
  
  Where: 140 WBOB
  Event Status: confirmed

• Healthy Homes Workshop

  When: Mon May 21, 2012 6:30pm to Mon May 21, 2012 8pm CDT
  
  Where: Maplewood Library
  Event Status: confirmed

• Healthy Homes Workshop

  When: Wed May 30, 2012 6:30pm to Wed May 30, 2012 8pm CDT
  
  Where: Maplewood Library
  Event Status: confirmed

• The latest from Youtube:
  My Life: Linda Kahn

• The latest from Twitter:
  publichealthmn: RT @_Natalie_Jo_: Done! #SPHgrad

Careers Blog

• Strategic Career Planning: The Personal SWOT Analysis

  Now that you have done some personal assessment, exploration, and goal setting, it is time to move on to the final step of developing your career plan: the personal SWOT analysis. While the SWOT analysis is traditionally used by organizations in their strategic planning process, it also serves as an excellent tool for career planning. [...]

Student SPHere 2012

• Believing in Public Health

  If you are reading this post as a perspective student, then I hope this helps push you in the right direction. If you are reading this as a current student, then I am sure you know how I feel. If...

Alumni Notes

• Match Day story with pictures

  By Maureen Ayers Looby

  The Monday before the Match: I was in surgery that day (doing a robot assisted prostatectomy for my urology rotation). I knew the email would come at 11am, and I had my eye on the clock, but I was scrubbed...

• The Health Impact Assessment of New Energy Sources: Shale Gas Extraction

  Deborah L. Swackhamer, co-director of the Water Resources Center at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, presented recently on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on water resources and implications for human health at a two-day workshop, hosted by the Institute of Medicine.

• Self-weighing potential health risk for young adults

  Is it healthy for young adults to weigh themselves frequently? Thats what researchers with Project Eat at the University of Minnesota wanted to learn, so they studied more than 2,000 adults with an average age of 25.

• Bird flu debate should focus on new vaccines

  For weeks, scientific debate has focused on the publication of two studies that document the lab creation of H5N1 virus, or bird flu. The debate included varying opinions about the case-fatality rate in other words, how deadly the virus might be if transferred to the human population.

Eileen M Harwood, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Division of Epidemiology & Community Health

Eileen Harwood earned her Ph.D. in sociology. Her research interests include: methods of survey data collection and management; health program evaluation; qualitative research methods; social epidemiology; structural factors related to health, health disparities, and health risk reduction; and women's health. She recently directed the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations eight-year Reducing Underage Drinking Through Coalitions project. Dr. Harwood is faculty director of the SPH Health Services Research Center and she teaches a graduate methods course in health program evaluation.

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