Weekly SPHere May 28, 2007SPH Student News is now the Weekly SPHere. Different name, same content. >Student News Student NewsSurf’s Up Student Party photos and commencement photos now online. View a slideshow online of photos taken at commencement and/or download high resolution photos from commencement. APHA Student Awards. The Oral Health Section of the American Public Health Association has announced its annual pre-professional and post-professional student award categories for 2007. The awards will be presented at APHA's 135th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3-7. Applications are due Tuesday, May 29. Decisions will be announced by July 2. Applications should be postmarked or electronically sent by Wednesday, May 29 to: Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Award Committee For additional information about the awards please visit www.apha-oh.org. Consider joining the Camp Odayin volunteer staff this summer. Camp Odayin strives to provide a safe, fun, and stigma-free environment for children with heart disease regardless of socioeconomic status. The camp offers the opportunity to strengthen self confidence, gain independence, develop life skills, and meet other young people with similar health, emotional, and social concerns. Located three hours north of the Twin Cities, it is the only camp in the Midwest for children with heart disease. School NewsEpiCH summer shuttle schedule. Beginning May 29, a seven-passenger van will be used instead of a 15 passenger van. On 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. Program and registration is available for the MPHA Annual Conference. The conference will take place on Thursday and Friday, June 14-15 at St. John's University in Collegeville. This year's conference will include informative presentations on public health preparedness, food safety, childhood and adult obesity, and health care reform. The conference will include exhibits and displays about MPHA's and public health's history in Minnesota over the last 100 years. More at http://mpha.net/. For questions regarding registration contact Carol Berg; cberg@ucare.org 6-3635. 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. MPHA Conference exhibits, displays, and poster presentations. You are invited to present an exhibit, display, or poster presentation at the Minnesota Public Health Association's Annual Conference held June 14-15 at St. John’s University. There will be no charge for the tables for your display; however, participants are asked to pay the conference fee for attending the conference or for the day of June 14 when the exhibit, poster or display will be presented. For more information, contact Jay Jaffee at jay.jaffee@health.state.mn.us or 651-201-5496. Please include your name, organization, address, phone number, and e-mail address as well as the topic of your display. Call for Abstracts-Ninth Annual MCH Summer Institute. The Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health invites you to submit poster abstracts to display during the Ninth Annual MCH Summer Institute on Addressing Health Disparities, "Culture, Communications and Health." The Institute will be held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Conference Center on July 24-25. The deadline to submit abstracts is 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 7. What is Public Health? Looking for an overview of basic public health concepts? The Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health offers a free 2.5 hour online training titled What is Public Health that will provide just that. A certificate awarding 2.5 contact hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion. Also available is an undergraduate course, PubH 3202: What is Public Health, which explores the concepts in greater depth. Looking for more distance education? The Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health is part of the national network of Public Health Training Centers (PHTC). To accommodate the public health training needs of the public health workforce, approximately 60 percent of the training and training tools offered by the PHTCs are distance-based. These trainings are compiled in a database that is searchable by competency, subject area and by keyword. The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Certificate Program has extended its application deadline to June 8 for scholarship funds through the Harris Foundation. The program prepares students and professionals to work more effectively, build capacity, and strengthen leadership to address the mental health needs of young children and their families. Mark A. Eustis, MHA alumnus (1979), has been named the new president and CEO of Fairview Health Services. His selection was approved at a special board meeting Monday evening, May 21. Mark begins his new role Aug. 1. "I am pleased to be returning to Minnesota to join one of the most successful academic and community healthcare partnerships in the nation. It is an honor to be part of Fairview and the partnership with the University and University of Minnesota Physicians," said Eustis. SPH EventsSex Ed and the State. See a documentary about sex education in public schools created by SPH student Jim Winkle. In the film, Minnesota lawmakers, advocates, opponents, educators and others debate the best strategy to fight adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The documentary will be screened at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 7 at the Oak St. Cinema. Summer Public Health Institute events. A leadership forum will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30. Geoffrey Lieu is the keynote speaker. The forum will be held in the private dining area of Carlson School of Management. Jeffrey Kahn will discuss Ethical Decision Making in Times of Threat on June 5 from 7:45 to 9 a.m. The lecture will be held in the private dining room at Carlson School of Management. The SPH Roundtable Genes and the Environment: The Emerging Role of Genomics in Public Health will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Friday, June 8. The roundtable, which will be held at the Carlson School of Management, is free, but registration is requested. Keynote address will be from Muin Khoury, the first director of the CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics. "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. 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. Other EventsThe 2007 Health Disparities Awards Dinner will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29. Register to phdr@umn.edu or 5-1654 by 5 p.m. on Monday, May 21. Costs and Benefits of Responsible Conduct of Research Conference. The Dept of Health and Human Services' Office of Research Integrity is sponsoring the Costs and Benefits of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Education Programs Conference, May 31-June 1, 2007. "Beauty and the Beast? Elegance, Evidence, and the Practice of Bioethics" a discussion by Raymond De Vries will be presented on Wednesday, June 6. De Vries is a member of the Bioethics Program at the University of Michigan Medical School. The seminar, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 12:15 to 1:30 in 5-125 Moos Tower. Refreshments will be provided. 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. Does Racism Make Us Sick? To learn more, join the interactive session 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 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. 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. SPH Student News is sent by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 420 Delaware Street, S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. www.sph.umn.edu. |