Weekly SPHere June 11, 2007

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Student News

Check out the new "My Life" video podcast. Learn what life is like for SPH student Quintin Williams as he attends class, volunteers with inner city high school students, and spends time with classmates at a multicultural student dinner. Williams is a Ph.D. student from Illinois studying occupational injury prevention.
• Go to "My Life"

Notes from the Field 2007. SPH students are arriving at sites around the world to begin their summer field experience.
• Read their blog postings

Volunteer at the GLBT Pride Festival. The STD and HIV Section of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) will be conducting a behavioral survey at the 2007 Twin Cities GLBT Pride Festival. MDH needs volunteers to conduct interviews. The survey is a follow-up to a similar survey MDH conducted in 2004. (View survey results) 
. Volunteer training is Friday, June 22, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Volunteers can work a three-hour shift on either Saturday, June 23, or Sunday, June 24. Parking vouchers and lunch will be served at the training. Contact: Luisa Pessoa-Brandao at 651-201-4032 or luisa.pessoa-brandao@health.state.mn.us by Friday, June 15.

NCI offers postdoctoral fellowships. Spend one summer or two years at the National Cancer Institute at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Fellowships intended for doctoral students (PhD) and MPH/MS students with doctoral degrees (MD, DVM, DDS, PharmD, etc). 

• Learn more online or contact Barbara Laporte (6-5443, blaporte@umn.edu) at the SPH Student Services office, D305 Mayo.

Phishing, spam, and scams. Students, faculty, and staff have recently been receiving a number of solicitations by e-mail. The University of Minnesota has information that may be helpful to you on its Safe Computing Web site.

• Go to the Safe Computing Web site

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School News

SPH epidemiologist Toben Nelson discusses seat belts and airbags for this week’s Public Health Moment. Listen here:
 blog.lib.umn.edu/sphpod/moment/

Interested in Health and Mass Media? The University's Health Journalism master's program is 4 years old and is considering a second track in health communication. Program administrators would like to hear about your interest in health communication and get feedback on ideas for the program. Please take a few minutes to complete a survey. Some background information: For a master's degree, the tuition for residents would range from $14,000 to $28,000, depending on how many semesters students took to complete the program. There may be limited opportunities for scholarships or graduate assistantships. Please send your response by June 15.
• Go to the survey

EpiCH summer shuttle schedule. Beginning June 11 the shuttle will make four daily runs from WBOB to Mayo. The shuttle will leave WBOB at 9 and 11 a.m. and then 1 and 3 p.m. It will leave Mayo at 15 past the hour. The mail runs from WBOB to ECRC and the Dean's Office will remain the same: 1 p.m. for ECRC and 3 p.m. for the Dean's Office. The shuttle will not run to the Minnesota Department of Health during the summer. For questions call Ginger Hughes at 6-9397.

MPHA Annual Conference is this week. The conference will take place on Thursday and Friday, June 14-15 at St. John's University in Collegeville. More at http://mpha.net/. A vanpool will leave from the University each morning of the MPHA conference and will return at the end of each day. If you need transportation to the event, go to www.sph.umn.edu/alumni/mpha.html.

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SPH Events

"Beyond Checklists: Developing and Implementing Business Plans for Pandemic Influenza," a CIDRAP Business Source interactive webinar, will be held Friday, June 15, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT. Speakers are SPH professor Michael Osterholm, Karen Dye from Sun Microsystems, and Barry Cardoza from Union Bank of California. Free viewing will be available for University staff, faculty and students at 5-125 Moos Tower.
• Learn more online or contact palensky@umn.edu.

The National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course will be held July 25-27 in the Cowles Auditorium at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute. This continuing education program focuses on the improvement of maternal and infant health through the delivery of risk-appropriate, high-quality nutrition services.
• Learn more/register online

UPCOMING CPHEO COURSES
June 14: Evacuation Coordination: Train the Trainer
July 12: Incident Management Systems Awareness
August 9: 8 Hour Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Refresher
For more information and registration visit http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/niehs

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Other Events

The NORA Symposium (National Occupational Research Agenda) -- Research to Practice will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 13, at the Radisson University Hotel.
• Learn more online

Does Racism Make Us Sick? This interactive session will take place on Monday, June 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. EDT. The event is a part of the 13th Annual Summer Public Health Research videoconference on Minority Health
• Learn more and/or register a satellite downlink site

Dr. Mona El-Farra from Gaza First U.S. Speaking Tour. Dr. Mona El-Farra, physician and internationally recognized human rights leader, will speak Monday, June 25, 7 p.m., at St. Joan of Arc Church, 4537 3rd Ave. S., Minneapolis. The event is free and open to the public. Donations accepted. The event is sponsored by The Middle East Children's Alliance and The Middle East Committee of WAMM.
• Learn more online or call 612-827-5364

The U's Center for German & European Studies will host Germany's minister of health and her delegation for a two-day trans-Atlantic forum. The American and German "Healthcare and Innovation" forum will be held on Monday, July 16 and Tuesday, July 17.
• Learn more/register online

A professional grant proposal writing workshop will be held in August at North Dakota State University. The Grant Institute's Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held August 1 - 3.
• Learn more online or call (888) 824-4424

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