The Weekly SPHere Sept. 17, 2007
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Student Applications for the Mentor Program are due by the end of the day on Monday, Sept. 17 for all SPH students interested in participating in the program for the 2007-08 academic year. The program provides students with an opportunity to prepare for a career in public health with advice and experience of professionals. Fun and educational events are scheduled for mentors and students throughout the year.
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• Access the application
Student Volunteers Wanted for the 2007 Community Partners event. Three student volunteers are needed to be greeters for the Community Partners event, which is on Sept. 20 at the McNamara Alumni Center, Memorial Hall. Your services will be needed from 4:30 to 7 p.m. As a thank you, you will get free food and parking plus a chance to network with industry professionals. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact event coordinator Nichole Marthaler at 6-9303 or at marth1047@umn.edu by Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 4 p.m.
Planned Parenthood is seeking a program evaluation intern. As the education program evaluator, you will assess evaluation tools currently being used by Planned Parenthood and recommend changes as needed. You'll also develop new evaluation tools and processes to determine whether the program goals are being met, as well as administering tools and interpreting results. Knowledge of evaluation techniques is a must, and basic knowledge of current topics in sexuality, experience working with teens and the ability to travel to Rochester and/or Duluth are all pluses though not required. For more information or to apply: www.ppmns.org or volunteers@ppmns.org 612-821-6113
Tuition assistance for health care students - $250,000 in scholarships! Apply by Sept. 30 to receive one of 20 $5,000 grants or other grants being offered to undergrad and graduate students in health-related fields of study.
Go to www.Tylenol.com/scholarship for applications and information.
Experience the public engagement process and earn some money. Students are needed to serve as table recorders at one or more of the upcoming University of Minnesota•s UMore Park Listening Sessions in Rosemount, MN on Sept. 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27. The biggest needs are for the dates: Sept. 17, Sept. 20, Sept. 25 and Sept. 27.
A $40 stipend and dinner will be provided for each session. Locations, directions and more information are at: www.umorepark.umn.edu.
TASK:
1. Arrive in Rosemount at 4:30 p.m. sharp the day of meeting • the meeting ends at 7:15 p.m.
2. Provide your own transportation (30 miles south of campus • during rush hour traffic, please allow 1 hour for travel from campus.)
3. Serve as table recorder: take hand written notes (no computer) of conversation between 6 participants at a table.
4. Within 72 hours send by email a legible copy of your table notes (PDF or retyped into a Word document) and your summary of the conversation (in a Word document.)
5. Students can sign up to be a recorder for up to three sessions.
HOW TO SIGN UP:
Complete the following brief information and email to Deb Slipek at slipekc@aol.com until Thursday, Sept. 20 at noon for the sessions Sept. 25-27.
Email subject line should read: UMORE PARK RECORDER APP
Name:
College/Department:
Graduate or Undergraduate Student:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Date(s) that you are available (up to 3) - Sept. 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27
Project Homeless Connect is seeking volunteers to assist the homeless population in Hennepin County. The next event will be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Monday, Oct. 1. Project Homeless Connect is a one-stop-shop of services to help people living in shelters or on the streets. A one-hour volunteer orientation is required, volunteers may pick from several dates on and between Sept. 17-24.
Learn more/register online
Disparities: Unequal Opportunities, Unequal Outcomes is an initiative to make small grants and provide technical assistance to seed or support small projects that promote or examine ways to effectively address disparities among Minnesota's children, youth, and families. Funding is from the President's Initiative on Children, Youth, and Families. The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium requests proposals by Friday, Oct. 5.
See the request for proposals
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SPH Events
The Elephants in the Room: Social Justice, Public Health, and Health Inequities will be presented by Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health, on Friday, Sept. 28 at Coffman Union Theater, reception at 9 a.m., lecture from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Krieger will discuss three questions researchers must confront: what are health disparities?; what are their causes?; and who is responsible for health inequities? And she will draw attention to the "elephants" must we confront if our work is to make a dent in eliminating health inequities. This event is part of the Carl J. Martinson, MD, Lectureship in Preventive Medicine, presented by the SPH's Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Learn more online
A biostatistics seminar, •Analysis of Time-to-event Data with Incomplete Event Adjudication• will be held Sept. 19, 3:30 p.m. Tom Cook from the division of biostatistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the keynote speaker. The seminar will be held in MoosT 1-450G. A social tea will be held at 3 p.m. in A434 Mayo. All are welcome.
Learn more online or call 4-4655.
Biostatistics seminar, part II. Identifying Protein Markers from Mass Spectrometry Data with Ordinal Outcome will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26 in MoosT 1-450G. Deukwoo Kwon, a postdoctoral visiting fellow from the National Cancer Institute, is the keynote speaker. A social tea will be held at 3 p.m. in A434 Mayo. All are welcome.
Learn more online or call 4-4655
Join Career Conversations - The first Career Conversations will take place Sept. 19, 3:30•4:30 p.m., in Mayo D330. The topic is resume and cover writing basics. To learn more about these career development workshops, contact Barb Laporte, SPH Career Services, at blaporte@umn.edu.
View the entire 2007-2008 Schedule
Learn more about the Career Services Center
Xenobiotics and Human Health Seminar Series: The Divisions of Epidemiology and Community Health and Environmental Health Sciences are holding a series of joint seminars. The goal is to exchange information and ideas about persistent organic pollutants and health, seen from several perspectives. Place and Time: Mayo 1155, Mondays, 10:30 a.m. to noon. This schedule is subject to change. Please call Carol Raichert at 5-1836 to confirm.
• Sept.24: Jose Suarez (PhD student) and Bruce Alexander
• Exposure to pesticides on farms and flower plantations
• Oct. 8: Jeff Mandel and Bruce Alexander, Persistent fluorochemicals, worker health, and mortality
• Oct. 22: Deborah Swackhamer and Matt Simcik, Fate and transport of emerging chemical pollutants
The SPH Roundtable Series on Environmental Influences on Human Development and Disease Risk will be held 8:30 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 12 in Cowles Auditorium at the Humphrey Center. The keynote speaker is Philip J. Landrigan. The Roundtable Series is free but registration is requested.
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Other Events
Creating a Global Partnership in Public Health Informatics will take place Sept. 17-18 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle, Washington.
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The next Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series in Health Disparities lecture will be held on Friday, Sept. 21, 12-1 p.m., in 1-450G Moos Tower. Speaker: Margarita Alegria, Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance. She will present a talk entitled, "Changing the Mindset to Reduce Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Disparities."
The Academic Health Center will hold a campus-wide blood drive. Please schedule your appointment in advance at American Red Cross (ARC) and search by ZIP code 55455. Donors must be at least 17, weigh at least 110 pounds, and present a photo ID at check-in. If you have traveled outside the United States in the past year or have other questions about eligibility to donate, call the ARC nurse at 651-291-3885 before scheduling. The blood drive is on Tuesday Sept. 25 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the McNamara Alumni Center. For other information, contact Jenny Meslow at meslo001@umn.edu or 800-448-3543.
Minnesota Public Health Association's Centennial Celebration Gala - Join the MPHA as it celebrates 100 years as a contributor to the health of Minnesotans. Will Steger, polar explorer, will be the keynote speaker. October 25, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m. at McNamara Alumni Center.
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