Pharamacoepidemiology combines methodology from epidemiology and clinical pharmacology to study the use, effectiveness, value and safety of pharmaceuticals. This seminar will 1) provide a brief introduction to the field of pharmacoepidemiology, with an emphasis on methodologic considerations, 2) show examples of pharmacoepidemiologic research conducted at UMN, and 3) discuss data availability and opportunities to conduct…

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Jeremy M G Taylor, of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, will present: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy" Prostate cancer patients who undergo prostatectomy are closely monitored for recurrence and metastasis using routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements. When PSA…

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Minnesota Public Health Corps: What Builds Capacity in Minnesota Health Departments?   Presented by Chelsey Kirkland, PhD, MPH, CHW Researcher Center for Public Health Systems Division of Health Policy & Management     Last year, Minnesota Public Health Corps (MNPHC) launched with 66 AmeriCorps members serving in 37 host sites across Minnesota. The program aims…

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The Health Equity Work Group has the pleasure of hosting the 2023 Microgrant Awardees Sam Greenwald, Lauren McPherson, Aparijita Sur, and Alexis Grimes Trotter for our Fall General Meeting! The meeting is open to all SPH Faculty, staff, students, and postdocs and will be on October 11th from 12:30 pm-2:00 pm at the Mayo Building…

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Working with the media is a powerful way to disseminate SPH work, research, and stories of our impact to a broad audience in Minnesota and across the U.S. This media training webinar will be presented by Savannah Erdman, UMN PR Strategist, and Virgil McDill, SPH writer and news media strategist. They will cover: Information about the…

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Guanhua Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, will present: "Robust Sample Weighting to Facilitate Individualized Treatment Rule Learning for a Target Population" Learning individualized treatment rules (ITRs) is an important topic in precision medicine. Current literature mainly focuses on deriving ITRs from a…

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The SPH Public Health Traineeship invites you to attend a seminar on Friday, October 20 from 1:30-3:00 pm. Marisol Chiclana-Ayala from the Center for Health Equity at the Minnesota Department of Health will be on campus to present on authentic community engagement and systems transformation for equity. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome.

Ruitao Lin, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, will present: "DEMO: Bayesian Adaptive Dose Exploration-Monitoring-Optimization Design Based on Short, Intermediate, and Long-term Outcomes" The advancements in targeted therapy or immunotherapy have challenged the conventional “more-is-better'' paradigm in oncology. Due to the deadly nature of cancer, an optimal dose…

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Join Dr. Aisha Harris for a conversation about the impacts of social determinants of health, the importance of understanding the community context of scientific work, and opportunities to put this into practice within the Twin Cities community. Dinner will be provided.

Have you been curious about... What people are doing here? In that case come to see several of our faculty give flash presentations on their and/or their pod's recent work! This is an encore performance of the flash talks that were done on PhD Welcome Day, but this time everyone is invited! There will be…

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