How might public health hold companies accountable for how their products affect human health? Thomas points to new arguments for public health and new coalitions that might yield greater human health.

Comprehensively understanding how the prevalence and severity of side effects, unmet needs, and barriers to supportive care affect quality of life in diverse ovarian cancer survivors remains a research gap and priority.

This talk will cover the state of practice for communicating race and ethnicity in multiple health disciplines, how current communication practice threatens both scientific rigor and equity, and the possible actions at the individual and structural level we can take to address these issues.

This talk argues that social science research has three families of strategy for making sense of the size of mortality disparities and provides new empirical results in each vein that collectively aim to put demographic measurement onto a more human footing.

Dr. Rebecca Cunningham is one of the nation’s leading experts on issues related to firearm injury prevention.

Dr. Cindy Im will discuss potential opportunities to facilitate precision survivorship, leveraging large epidemiological datasets, statistical/machine learning-based prediction modeling, and genetics to improve late effects clinical risk stratification.

Dr. St. Peter will be discussing the evolution of pharmacoepidemiology and examples of pharmacoepidemiology research in the study of drugs used in persons with kidney disease.

In this talk, Dr. Firestone will discuss her epidemiologic analysis of exposure data collected from a novel source – a law firm – in order to identify the food ingredient causing illnesses.

In this seminar, Dr. Harnack will provide a primer on FDA food and nutrition regulation, including sharing little-known and underappreciated nutrition regulatory success stories.

Join us for this seminar with featured speaker Dimitri Drekonja.

At this seminar, members of the Social Epi Pod will present, in flash talk style, about the many, energizing new projects and initiatives that we are and have been launching!

Over the last decade, especially since the 2020 “Summer of Racial Reckoning,” structural racism has been increasingly recognized as a public health issue, impacting more than the criminal legal system. There has been a rapid upsurge of empirical studies seeking to operationalize structural racism quantitatively. During this seminar, I will be exploring the dimensions of…

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Motivated by the notion of “Protest Psychosis”- a diagnosis created by psychiatrists during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s that disproportionately labeled Black activists as schizophrenics- I examine the impact of protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement following the police killing of George Floyd on racial disparities in emergency department visits diagnosed…

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This presentation will review the historical evidence of the dire public health consequences resulting from weakened democracy and the lack of fair representation in bodies that determine how a population protects itself from various harmful health determinants.