SPH This Week

SPH This Week

February 12, 2017

SIGNATURE EVENT

Deans SEMINAR PRESENTS Deborah Dugan

Thursday, February 16, 1 2 p.m., Hiebert Lounge.

On the foundational role of housing in shaping health, in light of emerging federal changes to our approach to housing.

Patrick Kinney, who linked climate change and worsening urban smog, is new Beverly Brown Professor of Urban Health.

[VIDEO] Clearer direction needed for distributing naloxone overdose kits.

Discrimination in hiring and promotion may be factor in disparities in risk.

[VIDEO] Brad Padilla researched regulatory pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa for new drug resistance test.

Study finds Boston's hospitals less segregated by race and income.

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba on Data Coordinating Center, childrens health, and taking control of narratives.

As yogas presence in popular media continues to increase, how do media portrayals serve to facilitate or prevent access to the practice?

by Elika Razmjou, Pacific University, and Heather Freeman, Pacific University and Nadezhda Vladagina.

Daily Beast
Ted Cruz Gets the Facts Wrong on C-Sections quotes Eugene Declercq, professor of community health sciences.

Health Day
Obese Couples May Take Longer to Conceive quotes Lauren Wise, professor of epidemiology.

WBUR
For the Sake Of Public Health, the President Must Embrace the World opinion by Dean Sandro Galea.

Common Dreams
Black and Low-Income New Yorkers Largely Shut Out of Major Academic Hospitals quotes Karen Lasser, associate professor of community health sciences.

DEAN'S SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTHCan the Private Sector Make a Difference?
Thursday, February 16, 1:00 pm 2:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge.

Student Coffee Chat with the Dean
Thursday, February 16, 5:00 pm 6:00 pm, Founders Room.

Staff Breakfast with the Dean
Friday, February 17, 9:30 am 10:30 am, CT305.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: SPH READSThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A Conversation with the Family of Henrietta Lacks
Tuesday, February 21, 4:30 pm 6:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge.

School Assembly for Faculty & Staff
Tuesday, February 28, 8:45 am 10:50 pm, Hiebert Lounge.

PUBLIC HEALTH FORUMThe Health Policies of the New Administration: Applying the Epidemiology of Politics
Tuesday, February 28, 4:30 pm 6:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge.

DEAN'S SEMINAR: BOOK DISCUSSIONJewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust
Wednesday, March 1, 1:00 pm 2:00 pm, L109ABC.

DEAN'S SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTHHealth, Politics, and Planned Parenthood
Thursday, March 2, 1:00 pm 2:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge.