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 a hybrid format. Please see EpiCH Events Page for zoom links
EpiCH Seminar Series events will be available online the following Monday at EpiCH Youtube Playlist
We will be reserving WBOB 150 for all hybrid seminars.
If you would like to receive emails about upcoming seminars, please contact Katie Gunderson at gunde773@umn.edu

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker/Affiliation	Topic/Title
9/09/22	Rich MacLehose, PhD, EpiCH Susan Mason, PhD, EpiCH	Stop it!
9/16/22	Katie Koopmeiners, Office for Community Standards	In Service: Working Together to Support Student Success: Best Practices for Handling Student Conduct Concerns
9/23/22	Kristin Palmsted, ScD, Health Partners Malini DeSilva, MD, Health Partners Gabriela Vazquez Benitez, Health Partners	HealthPartners Institute Pregnancy and Child Health Research Center: Overview and Building Collaborations
9/30/22	Rick Jansen, PhD, North Dakota State University	Context is Key in Public Health: Using Pancreatic Cancer Genomics as an Example
10/07/22	Margaret Chesney, PhD, Martinson Lecture, University of California, San Francisco	Integrative Medicine and Whole Person Health: Fad or Frontier? Implications for Preventive Medicine
10/14/22	Caitlin Gerdts, PhD, MHS, Ibis Reproductive Health	The Public Health Imperative of Abortion Access
10/21/22	Gonzalo E. Torres, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Medicine	In Service: Supporting Diversity at the Faculty Level: The MINDS and CURA Approaches
10/28/22	Deshira Wallace, PhD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Estres, Ansiedad, y la Azucar: The Role of Psychosocial Distress on Diabetes Management in Rural Dominican Republic
11/4/22	Hadija Steen Mills, Maternal & Child Health	Public Health vs. Public Healing: A Conversation about Liberation-First Approaches to Public Health by the Healthcare Reparations Cooperative
11/11/22	Elizabeth Wrigley Field, PhD, Sociology Katie Berry, MPH, EpiCH	Racial Inequity in COVID-19 Mortality: Which Popular Narratives Are True?
11/18/22	Britt Luby, MA, Chaplain Cook Children’s Health Care System	DEI- In-Service: Know your Neighbor: Creating a Religiously Inclusive Campus
12/2/22	Ellen Demerath, PhD, EpiCH	Pls and Pronto-Pups: University Research and Public Engagement at the Minnesota State Fair
12/9/22	Horacio Duarte, MD, MS, EpiCH	Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV: Using Simulation-Based Model to Inform Health Policies