Public Health Forums 2009
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: dr. Kalahn Taylor-Clark, Phd, mph
Dr. Kahlan Taylor-Clark of the Brookings Institute give a talk on healthcare reform and health equity.
Title: Health Care Reform: Implications for Advancing Health Equity
Place and Time: Sanger Hall, Room 2-020 from noon to 1. Download Flier
Epidemiology Seminars: Research Methodology- Time: 1-2 p.m.
This seminar series is designed primarily for faculty, post-docs and doctoral students, but MPH students are welcome to attend. Please use this link to report attendance if you wish to receive credit for a seminar.
| Date | Topic | Presenter | Location |
| 28-Sep | Latent class analysis | Briana Mezuk | Leigh House Conference Room, 301 |
| 12-Oct | Meta-analysis | Saba Masho | One Capitol Square, 5th Floor Conference Room |
| 26-Oct | Strutucral equation modeling | Resa Jones | One Capitol Square, 5th Floor Conference Room |
| 2-Nov | Classification: Observed- & Latent-Variable Frameworks | Levent Dumenci | One Capitol Square, 5th Floor Conference Room |
| 23-Nov | Infectious Diseases-related Research | Amy Pakyz | One Capitol Square, 5th Floor Conference Room |
| 30-Nov | Path analytic model in Mplus | Toan Ha | One Capitol Square, 5th Floor Conference Room |
MPH students who matriculated in Fall 2005 or later are required to attend at least 6 public health seminars or other approved public health-related presentations. Students who matriculated in Fall 2008 and after are required to attend at least 9 public health seminars or other approved public health-related presentations. Ongoing seminars that qualify for credit are: Public Health Forum, sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health and offered once monthly in September, October, November, February, March and April Health Disparities Lecture Series, sponsored by the VCU Center on Health Disparities and offered once monthly in September, October, November, February, March and April Students attending these lecture series must sign the attendance sheet at these lectures and attend the entire lecture to receive credit.
Other lectures or presentations offered through VCU or at professional meetings (e.g., the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association) may qualify for public health seminar credit. Students should look for announcements about additional approved lectures/seminars on Blackboard or the MPH Program web pages. Students wishing to attend a lecture they have identified on their own must contact the MPH Program Director to determine if the presentation will qualify for credit. Students who attend these presentations sponsored by units outside of the Department and MPH Program must submit a form to the MPH Program Coordinator documenting attendance at the lecture to receive credit toward the public health seminar requirement. Click here to access online web attendance submittal form.
PAST SEMINARS and DowNloads
Matthew Perzanowski, MPH, PhD 11/4 @ 12:00Environmental exposures contributing to inner-city asthma
Wednesday, November 4th, 12:00-1:00 P.M.
Place: Virginia Department of Health, 109 Governor Street (Madison Bldg.) 12th floor Conference room
October 12th 2009, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
VIPBG Conference Room #1-160
Invited Seminar Guest Presenter: Professor Steve Coles, PhD, Division of Hematology-Oncology
Department of Medicine,
UCLA School of Medicine
Seminar Title:“Social Regulation of Gene Expression”
To receive credit for attendance students must complete the online request form.
Virginia Health Equity Conference 09/10-11
We'd like for you to be aware of and take advantage of the Virginia Health Equity Conference, to be held in the Richmond area on Thursday, 9/10, and Friday, 9/11. Although you may have classes that conflict on Thursday, there is a full day of offerings on Friday, and interesting morning sessions on Thursday that students could attend. (On Thursdays this semester, classes for MPH students start at 1 PM).
Note that this conference will be approved for all MPH students to gain PH seminar credit and will count for two seminars, as long as students attend and report on at least two sessions during the conference. Students may click on the program on the conference web page to see the sessions.
To report on your attendance at the conference, go to: http://www.epidemiology.vcu.edu/forums/index.html, read the explanation, and click on the link to the reporting form. Since there are a variety of options for students to attend at this conference (as opposed to just one lecture as is often the case when we pre-approve seminars and advertise them to students), we are asking that all students who wish to obtain public health seminar credit report on each of the two sessions attended.
Early bird registration ends August 15th (and will save all categories of registrants $25.) Students who register and pay the annual fee for VAPHA membership should save their receipts, as the department intends to cover membership in the VAPHA early in the semester and will reimburse students who provide an official receipt of membership along with a copy of a credit card statement that shows the charge to your account. If you pay by check, you must submit a copy of a cancelled check.
After the semester starts, we will announce when to submit your receipts, etc., for reimbursement if you choose to become a VAPHA member. http://www.virginiahealthequityconference.com/
October 14, 2009, Amy Bonhert, PhD, MHS, Epidemiology Faculty Candidate
Topic: Fatal Accidental Overdoses: Rates, Risk Factors, and Prevention Strategies.
2:00 – 2:50, Virginia Department of Health , 109 Governor Street (Madison Bldg.) 12th floor Conference room
April 22, 2009 12-1 PM Infant Mortality Lecture
Brown Bag
Lecture sponsored by Epidemiology and Community Health in conjunction with VCU Center on Health Disparities. Approved for PH Forum credit for MPH Students.
MSB Building, Room 104/105. Topic: Who Shall Live? Infant Mortality in Memphis, TN and Richmond, VA
Click to download flier.
May 1, 2009 Public Health Research DaY and town hall meeting
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Maghboeba Mosavel, "Community Engagement: A Direct Pathway to Addressing Health Disparities"
HONGJIE LIU, PhD
Associate Professor, Department
of Epidemiology and Community Health Virginia Commonwealth
University – Medical Center "Application
of respondent-driven sampling among men who have sex with men in China" Abstract
October 7, 2008 - Patrick MacRoy
Executive Director of the Alliance for Healthy Homes, a national,
nonprofit, public interest organization based in Washington, DC
"Addressing Health Hazards in Housing: Building on Lead Poisoning
Prevention."
click for biosketch click
to download PowerPoint presentation
