The Weekly SPHere May 11, 2009
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Sign up for a chance to receive free tickets to the SPH Alumni and Friends Scholarship Gala taking place on Saturday, May 16, 6 p.m. in Coffman Union’s Great Hall. Co-sponsored by the SPH Alumni Society and the SPH, this is the school’s premier fundraising event in support of student scholarships. Several donors and table sponsors have donated tickets (valued at $55) for students use.
• Register for your chance to receive either one or two tickets here
Registration for the 2009 Certified in Public Health Exam runs until May 8 and late registration runs until June 12. The exam will be offered Aug. 8-29. For details about the exam, see the exam website. The SPH’s Public Health institute is offering a review course for the exam. It includes test-taking strategies and other support tools and services to help prepare. Scholarships are available for the course.
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Attend the 2009 Public Health Institute, May 26-June 12. This year’s Public Health Institute features 45 courses emphasizing theory to application across practice and interest areas in public health. Participants can build or expand professional knowledge and expertise; learn best practices; broaden career options; network with experts and colleagues; and explore new areas of interests. Courses are available for graduate credit or professional continuing education hours.
• More information online
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Student News
Register by June 1 to present your research poster at the First Annual University of Minnesota Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Expo. The event will be held in the new TCF Bank Stadium on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Current students and 2009 graduates are both welcome to present.
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Open Discussion on the Graduate School Restructuring on Wednesday, May 13, 12 to 1:30 p.m., A301 Mayo Building. Lunch will be served. Co-Facilitators: Betsy Wattenberg, member of the Committee on Graduate Education, and Judith Garrard, associate dean for academic affairs and research.
Who Top Employers Hire: A Career Workshop and Mock Interviews will be held Monday, May 18, 12:30 to 4 p.m. in Exhibit Hall B at the Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave. The free workshop is sponsored by the World Conference on Quality and Improvement. Pre-registration is required. For more information contact, Cheryl Jones at cjones@medexecintl.com.
• Register online
Geeta Naidu received a $5,000 stipend for her project, “Increasing Access to Oral Health Care: Enforcing Medicaid and CHIP Dental Provisions,” From the University’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences. Naidu, a PHAP-JD joint degree student, is now formally a “Consortium Student Scholar.”
Crystal Liu, a PHAP-JD student, received a $6,282 stipend from the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences. Her project is “Donor Conceived Children and Their Fight for Knowledge: Using the Victorian Legislative Experience to Shed Light on Anonymity, Open Disclosure, and Access to Identifying Information.”
With Commencement just a week away and finals about to begin, please take a few minutes to complete the SPH Annual End-of-Year Student Survey. Your ideas and feedback will help Student Services plan its summer work and the next school year.
• Access the survey
PubH 6390: Epidemiologic and Modeling Methods for Infectious Diseases will be offered during the May session. This new course will introduce students interested in infectious diseases to the use of simulation models for understanding concepts in infectious disease epidemiology. Through hands-on experience and using human papillomaviruses (HPV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) as examples, students will learn methods for developing simulation models that replicate the natural history of infections and for evaluating the impact of primary and secondary prevention strategies. For more details contact the instructors Shalini Kulasingam at kulas016@umn.edu or Claudia Munoz-Zanzi at munozzan@umn.edu.
“Economics of Sex, Drugs, and Risky Behaviors”(PubH 6780) is a new 3-credit course offered summer session on Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:10 to 11:25 a.m. Faculty members are: Pinar Karaca-Mandic, John Nyman, and Bob Town from the Division of Health Policy and Management.
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School News
The SPH Delta Omega Pi Chapter has inducted the individuals below into the Delta Omega Honorary Society for Public Health. The induction reception was held May 8. Launched in 1924, Delta Omega is the honorary society for graduate studies in public health. The University of Minnesota’s Pi Chapter was founded in 1985 and now has more than 600 members. Election for students is based on outstanding scholarship.
- Matthew Allerson
- Marisa Bargsten
- Erica Bohan
- Emily Brown
- Jason Brown
- Majken Hall
- Sarah Klawitter
- Barbara Knust
- Meijuan Li
- Annie Mach
- Deborah Mullen
- Heather Oleson
- Ryan Otten
- Erin Roche
- Jocelyn Walton
- Shi-yi Wang
- Jason Weaver
- Jessica Zeglin
Save the date for the 38th Annual Workshops in Clinical Hypnosis scheduled for June 4-6. The event will be held at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Plymouth, Minn. The workshop is a skill-development based training for health care clinicians to enrich their therapeutic communication abilities. For more information contact the Office of Continuing Medical Education at 6-7600 or by following the link below.
• More about Clinical Hypnosis Workshops
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SPH Events
“Where are we with Occupational Safety and Health in the United States?” is the topic for the upcoming National Occupation Research Agenda Symposium on Wednesday, May 20. Christine Branche, acting director for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is the keynote speaker. Registration begins at 2 p.m. and the symposium begins at 2:30 p.m. followed by a reception and poster session. All activities take place in the Mississippi Room at Coffman. The symposium is free, but registration is requested.
• Register online
The SPH Roundtable, Public Health 2050: The Impact of Technology on the Field of Public Health, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., on Thursday, June 4, in the Union Theater at Coffman. SPH professors Julie Jacko and B.R. Simon Rosser will serve as moderators for the event.
• More information and registration
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Other Events
May 29-30
Exploring Medical Missions Conference
June 28-July 1 2009
Public Health Systems Research Interest Group Meeting
For more events, go to the SPH Online Calendar
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