Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Grace John-Stewart

On December 1, World AIDS Day, Dr. Grace John-Stewart will present the School of Public Health's Fall Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture / School of Medicine Science in Medicine Lecture. Her talk is titled, Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1: From Discovery to Delivery.

For more information, please contact Holly Weese.

Mexico Border Health Issues

Dr. Hugo Vilchis is the Director of the Border Epidemiology & Environmental Health Center at New Mexico State University. He is Associate Professor at New Mexico State University with the Health Science Department (College of Health and Social Services) and with the Molecular Biology Graduate program. He is also a Professor at El Colegio de Chihuahua and the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, higher education and research institutions in Mexico.

He obtained his medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1982 and his MPH from the School of Public Health of Mexico in 1985. Dr. Vilchis studied Epidemiology and Surveillance in Brazil in 1986.

Dr. Vilchis' public health career started in Mexico City in 1980 working for the General Directorate of Epidemiology, Mexican Secretary of Health. He was Department Chief of the National Immunization Programs in Mexico and during his tenure, children immunization rates rose to 90%. In 1989, he was appointed to the Pan American Health Organization, first as the National Advisor for the Immunization Program in Mexico and in 1992 as the Medical Epidemiologist of the Field Office in El Paso, Texas. In 1996, Dr. Vilchis joined New Mexico State University and the NM Office of Border Health, where he developed the Border Epidemiology & Environmental Health Center.

He has been working on many different projects involving epidemiology, surveillance, community health, and international health. Dr. Vilchis obtained his expertise working in the United States and Latin American countries like Mexico, Brazil, and Guatemala, among many others.

For more information, please contact Ann Vander Stoep .

PHG Seminar: "What Causes Cancer in our Germ Cells?"

Educational Seminar on Health Effects of Atomic Bombs Dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945

This is the first educational seminar sponsored by the Hiroshima International Council for Health Care of Radiation-Exposed (HICARE) in Seattle. The Council has been sending a medical team to the Pacific Northwest to provide A-bomb survivors with health examinations every other year. Another important mission is to educate the people in the world about the danger of and health effects from A-bombs, in order to prevent the future use of nuclear weapons in the world. It is a rare and important opportunity to listen to medical and research experts who have been directly involved with A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Coffee and snacks will be served starting at 6:00pm

Parking is available at the S1 parking lot. When passing by the S1 Gate - please let the attendant know that you will be attending the seminar called "A-bomb Symposium". You pay on your way out.

Parking fee information: http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/fees/gatehouse-permits

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For more information, please contact Scott Davis, PhD.

Diversity Climate Assessment Forum

In Spring 2008, the School of Public Health Diversity Task Force conducted a Diversity Climate Assessment (DCA) that consisted of a student focus group and an online survey on diversity in the SPH that went out to all students, faculty, and staff. More than 1600 people responded to the online survey.

The capstone event of the Diversity Climate Assessment Initiative has been scheduled for Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 3:00 in F-348. This event will be an opportunity for panelists from the Diversity Climate Assessment Subcommittee to debrief the School at large on the results of the DCA. We hope to get feedback on our recommendations, and to discuss next steps for the SPH Diversity Plan we hope will be informed by the results of the survey.

We invite students, faculty, staff, and alumni to attend and give us your thoughts on what should be next for diversity efforts in the School of Public Health.

You can review the School's Diversity Climate Assessment Initiative page here: http://sph.washington.edu/diversity/climate/

For more information, please contact Christine Edgar at 206-616-8117.

Genome-wide association studies of cardiovascular disease: design, conduct and findings from the CHARGE Consortium.

Nicole L. Glazer, PhD, Epidemiologist, UW, CHRU

Brief bio: Dr. Glazer received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She currently works as a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the UW Cardiovascular Health Research Unit. Her areas of interest include genetics, biomarkers and pharmacoepidemiology. In her post-graduate work she has mostly focused on genome-wide association studies.

Recommended reading:

1. Pearson TA, Manolio TA. How to interpret a genome-wide association study. JAMA. 2008;299:1335-44.
2. Newton-Cheh C, et al. Common variants at ten loci influence QT interval duration in the QTGEN Study. Nat Genet. 2009;41:399-406.

For more information, please contact Ann Vander Stoep .

Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Lucio Costa

Lucio Costa, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, will deliver the School's Winter Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Title to be announced. A reception will follow the lecture.

For more information, please contact Holly Weese.