Past Events

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    SPH 2026 Commencement

    Join us to celebrate students graduating at our 2026 SPH Commencement.

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    Privacy Preserving Validation on Generalizability of Risk Prediction

    Presented by Yuanlin Feng Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Adviser: Dr. Jue Hou Risk models developed on large research cohorts must be validated on external healthcare systems before guiding local clinical practice, yet validation sites often cannot share individual-level data and repeated interactive evaluation is often impractical. We propose a privacy-preserving, communication-efficient federated validation…

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    Webinar – Social Equity Policies in Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization

    Description: As part of legislation to legalize adult-use cannabis, many states have enacted policies aimed at empowering communities disproportionately harmed by cannabis criminalization laws. This webinar provides an overview of these social equity policies and invites a discussion about how effective they have been in achieving their goals. This webinar is free and open to…

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    UMN SPH: MPH Financial Advising Drop-ins

    Stop by this Zoom session for 1:1 financial advising for incoming and prospective MPH students on topics such as tuition, paying your bill, loans, scholarships, and funding.

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    Integrating Transcriptomic Signals into CALDERA to Infer Causal Gene

    Identifying causal genes for complex traits is both extremely important and challenging. CALDERA is a state-of-the-art method that leverages a small set of genetic and genomic features; however, transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) signals were previously excluded due to potential redundancy with existing features. In this work, we extended CALDERA by introducing T-PoPS, a feature that…

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    School of Public Health Spring Celebration

    Join us for an end-of-year celebration with light appetizers, raffle prizes, bowling, and more! All SPH Students and Alumni Welcome!

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