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Wellness Wednesday: Connecting Climate Activism to Academic Research
How does research inform policy and non-profit work? How can researchers ethically work with oppressed communities to create sustainable solutions? How are community organizing and activism using research to improve outcomes? Our guest will lead a conversation about helping our research be grounded in and continuously connected to local communities.Presented by Janiece Watts Janiece Watts is an environmental justice advocate working to advance equitable outcomes across Minnesota’s energy system. As an organizer, she has worked on issues from air…
Find out more »Division of Biostatistics Seminar with Joseph S. Koopmeiners
Joseph S. Koopmeiners, of the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota and candidate for the Division Head position in the Division of Biostatistics, will present: "The Role of Statistical Methods Research in Tobacco Regulatory Science" Abstract: The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products. A key component of this law is that the FDA can set new tobacco…
Find out more »Edible Education: Facilitating Fitness
Sumaya Noor, left, and Fahima Osman, right. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Daily. Join us for this free Brown Bag Session, where we meet Fahima Osman and Sumaya Noor. "After research showed barriers to participation for Somali women, two students successfully campaigned for women-only workout spaces on campus. Hear their story and find out more about how we can work toward making positive changes in our campus community." All Students, Faculty & Staff Welcome Bring…
Find out more »EpiCH Seminar – mGlide RCT: Closing the Guideline to Practice Gap in Hypertension Management
Presented by Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MBBS, PhD, MS Associate Professor Division of Epidemiology & Community Health mGlide is a mobile health technology based care model for improving rates of hypertension control in patients with uncontrolled hypertension. We are funded by the NIH to compare mGlide to usual care in a randomized controlled trial of 450 participants. The study is being implemented in an academic health system as well as several community care clinics. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities in…
Find out more »HPM Seminar with Prasanna Desikan, PhD, MS, MHA
HPM Seminar Series "All Models are Wrong, Some are Useful": Building Useful Models for Clinically-Effective, Resource-Efficient Healthcare Delivery Prasanna Desikan, PhD, MS, MHA Director, Health Risk Analytics BaseHealth Inc. Over the last two decades there has been tremendous technological progress in the computing infrastructures and methodologies, and the enabling technologies to collect large amounts of variety of data. This has resulted the field of data science emerging and exploding in its capabilities to be applicable…
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