The Weekly SPHere Dec. 17, 2007
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Note: The Weekly SPHERE will not be distributed on Dec. 24 or Dec. 31. The next issue of SPH News will go out on Monday, Jan. 7.
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Check out a new Web site filled with resources to help students plan field experiences, including learning where other students have gone and how they evaluated their experiences. Visit www.sph.umn.edu/current/fe to visit resources, and search past field experiences, preceptors, organizations, and student reviews.
Make plans to enroll in the Global Health Institute in Reykjavik, Iceland from March 31 to April 4. Students can earn three credits during the institute, held at the University of Iceland. The program is open to students in the School of Nursing, School of Public Health and College of Veterinary Medicine. A limited number of travel stipends for airfare is available. Registration through onestop.umn.edu will be available in early January. For more information contact the Global Outreach Team at 6-8434 or tayl0427@umn.edu. For travel stipend information contact Anne Ehrenberg at aehren@umn.edu or 4-6638. Courses Available: Globalization and Health: Challenges and Perspectives (1 credit) March 31-April 1, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Informatics in Global Health (1 credit) April 2-3, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Geothermal Energy and Environmental Hot Spots (1 credit) April 3, 6:30 to 11 p.m. April 4, 7:30 a.m. to- 8:30 p.m.
Equivalency exams for the School of Public Health core courses have been scheduled for January. The dates and times are listed below. Please contact the appropriate person by Jan. 5 if you are interested in taking the exam.
A New Spring Course is being offered: From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back. PubH 6800 Topics in Health Services Research and Policy, sections 1 and 2 is a film and lecture class. The film course is two credits and the lecture course is one. This course in two sections - created in conjunction with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" - explores in film and lecture formats the rise of international eugenic thought at the beginning of the 20th century, the rationalization of abusive and lethal practices in research and medicine in the trajectory of the Holocaust, and related historical and contemporary contexts. Film and lecture sections can be taken singly or together. All sessions are on Thursdays ¿ the films in the evenings and the lectures during the day. Two sessions will be held in common at the Science Museum.
PubH 6080 Seminar: Policy, Politics, and Ethics of Public Health Decision Making will be offered in the spring. The clash of the titans will happen in 2008--Hospitals, health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, business, regulators, patient consumers and politicians are prepared to mix it up in the coming national election year. Explore the complexities of public health decision-making, among other provocative topics in this two-credit class. The course will be held from 9:05 to 11 a.m. on Thursdays in 2-116 Moos Tower. For a permission number, contact Jill Anderson at berka003@umn.edu.
PubH 6803 Conducting a Systematic Literature Review is being offered from 3:30 to 5:30 on Mondays. The two-credit class is designed for students and fellows who want to conduct and publish systematic literature reviews.
SPH Student Research Day will be a new feature this year during National Public Health Week, April 7-11, 2008. The event includes a student research poster contest, to be held Friday, April 11. All currently enrolled SPH students are strongly encouraged to submit a poster about your research project. This can be for a MPH or MHA Masters' project, MS thesis, or PhD Dissertation. Three dates to mark on your calendars:
- Friday, Feb 1, 9-11 a.m., A-110 Mayo -- Training program: How to design a poster
- Monday, March 10 -- Submission deadline for posters (one per student)
- Friday, April 11, Mayo Auditorium -- SPH Student Research Day
A research poster gives you the opportunity to show off your work! The research does not have to be completed. There will be blue ribbon awards: given by faculty for excellence within each degree program and by students for a Students Choice Award for the best MPH, MHA, MS, and PhD posters.
PubH 6120 Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home is being offered in the spring. The two-credit class is being taught by Susan Gerberich and guest faculty on Wednesdays from 8 to 9:55 a.m. in WDH 2110. The course will examine injury epidemiology that includes analyses of major injury problems in the public workplace, home and community as well as emphasize strategies for prevention and control. It will also provide a foundation essential to the development of programs for occupational injury prevention and control.
The annual SPH apparel sale is underway and includes a great full-zip fleece, and scrub pants. Samples of this apparel will be available soon in the student service center or the SPHere for students to look at. Orders will be due in the second week of the spring semester. Those placed by Dec. 20 will be processed before the holiday break. Order forms are available in the student services office, Room D-305 Mayo. Please include your order form and cash or checks payable to the SPH Student Senate in an envelope with your name on it to the student services office, or to one of the following members of student senate:
Paul Jansen
Shriram Parashuram
Deja Scott
Ania Urban
Emily Wang
For questions or to get an order form emailed to you contact Paul Jansen at jansenpa@gmail.com.
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SPH Events
Yue Cui, a Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics, will discuss, "Smoothing Analysis of Variance for General Designs and Partitioning Degrees of Freedom in Hierarchical and Other Richly-parameterized Models," at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18 in room A434 Mayo. Refreshments will be served prior to the presentation.
"Employee Behavior Study -- A Two-level Latent Class Approach," is the topic of Xinyu Zhou¿s Plan B Presentation. The presentation will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 21 in A301 Mayo. Refreshments will be served prior to the presentation.
Planning is underway at the School to celebrate National Public Health Week (NPHW), April 7-11, in a grand way. Please mark your calendars for two inaugural events. To kickoff NPHW, the SPH will host its first research day event on Friday, April 11, which will include posters from students. The first all-school Alumni Reunion will take place Thursday, April 10. Keynoting this evening event will be Richard Carmona, former U.S. Surgeon General. Proceeds from ticket and raffle sales will go directly to funding student scholarships through the SPH alumni scholarship fund.
Save the date for the National Public Health Week Film Festival. This marks the fourth year of this popular series scheduled to be held April 7-11. During that week the NPHW PSA contest, "It's Global," will also be featured for a second year. Stay tuned for details.
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Other Events
A march and silent vigil to remember those who died while homeless in Minnesota will be held on Thursday, Dec. 20. The march begins at 5 p.m. at the Hennepin County Government Center and is followed by a service of remembrance at 6:30 p.m. at Simpson United Methodist Church. Steve O'Neil, longtime advocate for the homeless community and St. Louis County commissioner is the speaker. A community meal will be served at 7:30 p.m. in the Simpson Shelter--in the basement of Simpson Church.
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Minnesota International Health Volunteers is sponsoring a presentation that focuses on its Tanzania program. Make plans to attend the presentation on Friday, Jan. 4, which features Jolene Mullins, MIHV¿s Tanzania country director who will talk about the Tanzania Child Survival Project. The project focuses on improving the health of women and children under five years of age through interventions related to maternal and newborn care, malaria, control of diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, and child spacing. The presentation will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the MN Church Center, 122 West Franklin Ave., in Minneapolis. The event is free, but RSVPs are requested at 612-230-3363 or amiller@mihv.org.
A research symposium on Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology will be held Friday, Jan. 18, at the University of Minnesota's Rochester campus. The purpose is to facilitate further collaborations in: (1) Data mining methods for clinical and laboratory data (2) Computational methods for rational drug design. This symposium will bring together teams of scientists and administrators from the Twin Cities and Rochester campuses, the Hormel Institute, the Mayo Clinic, and IBM.
Register online. Deadline is Jan. 9, 2008.
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