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January 2022
An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: Addressing Data Quality Challenges in the 2020 American Community Survey
On Wednesday, January 19th, SHADAC researchers Kathleen Call and Robert Hest are excited to welcome U.S. Census Bureau expert Mark Klee for a discussion regarding the unique, COVID-19-related challenges and disruptions the Census Bureau faced in both data collection and production efforts for the 2020 ACS, resulting in a more limited set of "experimental" estimates being released. Attendees will have the opportunity to: - Learn about impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on 2020 estimates and data collection efforts in the…
Find out more »EpiCH Seminar Series – The Martinson Lectureship – Combating Health-Related Misinformation and Disinformation
Carl J. Martinson, MD Lectureship in Preventive Medicine Presented by Tara Kirk Sell, PhD, MA Senior Scholar, Center for Health Security and Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that health-related misinformation and disinformation can dangerously undermine the response to a public health crisis. Misleading information, intentional or not, has a myriad of effects, including reduced trust in public health responders, increased belief in false medical cures, and politicization of public health measures.…
Find out more »HPM Seminar with JP Leider and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
COVID-19 Mortality at the Neighborhood Level: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities Deepened in Minnesota in 2020 Substantial racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality have been observed at the state and national levels. However, less is known about how race and ethnicity and neighborhood-level disadvantage may intersect to contribute to both COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality during the pandemic. To assess this potential interaction of race and ethnicity with neighborhood disadvantage, Leider and Wrigley-Field link death certificate data from Minnesota from…
Find out more »February 2022
EpiCH Seminar Series – Where Do We Go From Here? A Discussion About the Near Future of COVID
Presented by Michael Osterholm, PhD University of Minnesota Regents Professor Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) Join us for a conversation with Dr. Michael Osterholm on the near future of the COVID pandemic. Our level of preparedness for future COVID variants, effects of waning immunity, and the future of mitigation strategies will be discussed. The role of public health as a field, and specifically the role of schools of public health, will be addressed. Attendees are encouraged…
Find out more »March 2022
Making Decisions of Rural Consequence: A Rural Health Case Simulation
Your challenge will be to work in teams to solve a health problem unique to rural America! We will provide you with prompts and support, but more than anything this event is designed to build professional development with an interdisciplinary lens. Please only register if you are committed to attending, as we will plan out teams ahead of the event.
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