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Please join us to honor our colleague and friend Dianne Neumark-Sztainer on her recent Regents Professorship honor. Dianne has been a part of the SPH community for 29 years. Her impact has included innovative, accomplished, and exemplary work that has transformed our understanding of eating, activity, and weight-related health in young people and helped set…
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This event is postponed. Stay tuned for a new date announcement Presented by: Greta Bauer, Ph.D., M.P.H. Professor and Director, ELI Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health University of Minnesota Medical School Sex(es) and gender(s) impact the public's health in ways that are multidimensional, and involve entangled causal pathways related to biological, behavioral, and…
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The GHWG invites you to join our Global Health symposium. This year the symposium is being co organized with Universidad CES in Medellin, Colombia and will focus on common challenges and solutions to global health problems for an interconnected world. Sessions to include: Uncomfortable Truths about Global Health. Presented by: Alejandro Gaviria Uribe, Economist and…
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Presented by: Ugochinyere Vivian Ukah, (she/her), Ph.D., M.P.H. Assistant Research Investigator HealthPartners Institute Pregnancy complications, such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and other severe maternal morbidity, disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic women and other vulnerable populations and can result in serious short-term health outcomes for both mother (e.g., eclampsia and stroke), and child (e.g., stillbirth,…
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The Bright Spots Mini-Lab supports the growing interest in qualitative and mixed methods research among public health practitioners, students, and researchers. "Learning Lab" sessions provide attendees with an opportunity to learn from and consult with experts on activities that build on the qualitative research skills they’ve learned in classrooms or while at work in their…
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Within a day of moving into her new apartment, Mrs. S developed notable forgetfulness. Troubles finding her way from room to room and locating objects became so debilitating and frustrating that she wished to die. The reasons she didn’t die reveal hidden in plain site insights about the powerful role of caregiving to create a…
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Join us to hear from SPH’s new Assistant Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Kyle X. Hill present his research on climate change and health equity within Indigenous Communities.
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In this forthcoming seminar, we turn our attention to the essential work conducted by the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (GLITEC), a pivotal entity serving thirty-four tribes in a three-state region, and four urban centers. Established with the fundamental objective of bolstering the health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities, GLITEC, as a public health authority,…
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This one-day, interactive course is designed as an update for those who have successfully completed the initial NIOSH-Approved Spirometry Training within the past five years and can provide a copy of that training certificate to the course director. In this interactive workshop, an emphasis will be placed on practical aspects of spirometric testing and making…
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This one-day course will qualify those holding a current CAOHC (Council for Accreditation of Occupational Hearing Conservation) certification for recertification. All participants will have ample opportunity to hone their skills by practicing hearing testing utilizing various audiometry equipment with one-on-one instruction from the faculty. The registration fee of $375.00 includes handouts, processing of your exam,…
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Presented by: Commissioner Brooke Cunningham, M.D., Ph.D. Commissioner of Health, Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Cunningham will briefly discuss current challenges and opportunities in public health, including lessons from the 2023 legislative session, and discuss how she plans to work with colleagues to create a more robust public health system in Minnesota. Deliberately informal, the…
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Build confidence in your ability to use NIOSH-approved techniques for obtaining the best spirometry test results with a variety of clients. This 2-day workshop covers the most current standards and recent developments in pulmonary function testing. The registration fee of $650.00 includes course materials, manual, and processing of your exam, and CEU certificate. This is…
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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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Hazardous drugs such as antineoplastic drugs effectively treat cancer, but there is increasing evidence that unintended exposure to these drugs through contact with contaminated surfaces in places where these drugs are handled, such as hospitals, outpatient facilities, and veterinary clinics, can lead to adverse health effects. Chronic low level exposures have been linked to increased…
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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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