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.

Come learn about the new SPH centers: Cannabis Research Center (CRC), Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center (MADMC), Prevention Research Center (PRC)

In The Minneapolis Reckoning, Michelle Phelps describes how Minneapolis seemingly arrived at the brink of police abolition and the tangible ways in which public safety has changed since then. Her account of the city’s struggles over what constitutes real accountability, justice, and safety offers a vivid picture of the possibilities and limits of challenging police power.

Dr. Winkelman will describe the development of this unique collaboration and the results it has generated to inform healthcare delivery for vulnerable populations in Minnesota.