Seminar Series

The EpiCH Seminar Series brings together leading public health practitioners and researchers who address our mission to improve the public’s health through state-of-the-art research, translation of research into practice, and innovative training.

Seminars are presented throughout the semester on Fridays from 10:00 – 11:00 AM CT.

Fall semester seminars will be delivered in-person in the WBOB. Please see EpiCH Events Page for further information.
EpiCH Seminar Series events will be available online the following Monday at EpiCH Youtube Playlist
If you would like to receive emails about upcoming seminars, please contact Katie Gunderson at gunde773@umn.edu

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker/Affiliation	Topic/Title
9/8/23	Justin Feldman, ScD	Is an Epidemiology of Justice Possible? Structural Racism, Causality, and the Forensics of State Violence
9/22/23	Brooke Cunningham, MD, PhD	21st Century Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities
9/29/23	Rebecca St. Germaine, PhD MPH, ENPH & Will Funmaker	Tribal Data Sovereignty in Federal and State Data: Are You Able to Access Opioid and Mental Health Data?
10/6/23	Pamela Lutsey, PhD, MPH	Pharmacoepidemiology: An Introduction, Applications, and Opportunities
10/13/23	Ugochi Ukah, PhD, MPH	Severe Maternal Morbidity and Risks of Adverse Outcomes in Women and Children
10/20/23	Greta Bauer, PhD, MPH	Bringing Intersectionality into Sex, Gender and Health Research
10/27/23	Andrew Fenelon, PhD; Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD; Nancy Sherwood PhD; and Darin Erickson, PhD	Flash Presentations
11/3/23	Marsha Davis, PhD	Pursuing Understanding: Conducting and Evaluating Community-Based Research
11/10/23	TBD	PhD Student Advising
11/17/23	Andrew Goodman-Bacon, PhD	New Developments in Difference-in-Differences
12/1/24	Pamela Schreiner, PhD	CARDIA: One Cohort’s Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic
12/8/24	Kumi Smith, PhD	Is the US opioid epidemic a white problem? Stories of the Black experience in Minnesota