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Health Sciences Education Center, 7th floor SPH Communications is offering professional portrait sessions for students, staff and faculty at no charge. Photos will be yours to keep and can be used for all personal and professional purposes, including presentations, LinkedIn, etc. Other Sessions have been planned for: Thu, Sept. 21, Mayo Auditorium Lobby, 4th floor, 9:00 a.m.-noon…
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Improving health equity and naloxone access among people at risk for opioid overdose: a distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of community-based naloxone distribution strategies in Massachusetts Presented by Xiao Zang, PhD Assistant Professor Division of Health Policy & Management Opioid overdose mortality has grown exponentially in recent decades in the US, with a pronounced increase…
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In this course, you will learn to perform pure tone air conduction hearing tests and other associated duties of the Occupational Hearing Conversationist (OHC) as a member of the occupational hearing conservation team. All participants will have ample opportunity to practice hearing testing utilizing various audiometry equipment with one-on-one instruction from the faculty. This is…
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Presented by: Justin M. Feldman, (he/him) Sc.D., Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Policing Equity and Visiting Scientist at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights A "causal revolution" has taken over academic epidemiology. By asking us to imagine exposures as hypothetical interventions that improve population health, the revolution's main evangelists are…
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Welcome Back to Campus! SPH students, faculty, and staff are invited to grab a free donut and connect with SPH alumni and the Advancement Team.
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The National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course centers on enhancing the well-being of both mothers and infants through the delivery of risk-appropriate high-quality nutrition services. This continuing education program is designed for dietitians, nutritionists, certified nurse midwives, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, and public health professionals involved in caring for pre-conceptual, pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women,…
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PhD candidate in Biostatistics, Jessica Butts, will present: "Methods for Integrative Analysis and Prediction Accounting for Subgroup Heterogeneity" PhD advisers: Sandra Safo and Lynn Eberly Abstract: Multi-view data, where there are multiple data views (e.g., genomics, proteomics) measured on the same set of participants, have become increasingly available and require integrative analysis methods to fully…
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The National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course focuses on the improvement of maternal and infant health through the delivery of risk-appropriate high-quality nutrition services. This continuing education program is designed for dietitians, nutritionists, certified nurse midwives, registered nurses and nurse practitioners, physicians, and public health professionals who serve pre-conceptual, pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, children,…
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The Director of the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Robert Otto Valdez, will be sharing his vision for AHRQ and the challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. healthcare system to provide high quality, equitable and safe health care. He will discuss how factors such as the use of data and measurement, a refocus…
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We will not achieve the goal of dismantling white supremacy without white people working together to understand how white supremacy and racial bias are defining characteristics of our whiteness. In this work, white people must engage with BIPOC and white individuals and communities. However, white people learning about and discussing whiteness can elicit fear, anger,…
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Please join us for the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and American Indian end of year celebration taking place on June 23! This social gathering will be held at the Campus Club and will be a space for Black, Indigenous, American Indian, and community members of color to connect and network in a…
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Masters candidate in Biostatistics, Monica Iram, will present: "Comparing Statistical Models for Analysis of Early Fungal Activity Data" Plan B Adviser: Dr. Biyue Dai Abstract: Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is an infection of the brain that causes more than 100,000 HIV-related deaths each year. In therapeutic clinical studies that aim to evaluate treatment efficacy for CM,…
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A little over a year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, resulting in an exodus of over six million Ukraine refugees, many of whom had pets. This presentation will provide a first hand look at efforts to provide veterinary support to pets of those refugees, and an overview of the challenges of bringing the first mobile veterinary…
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Catherine Coleman Flowers unearths America’s dirty secret in her talks about environmental justice, touching on one of the least discussed forms of inequality – equal access to water and sanitation. As Catherine shares, these issues are often “out of sight, out of mind” for most of the United States, but they need our attention. Flowers…
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