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Personal & Impersonal Media: Social Networks, Communication, and the Dynamics of Behavior Change
Special Seminar
Dr. Tom Valente
University of Southern California
July 20, 2006

Dr. Tom Valente is Associate Professor and Director of the MPH Program, Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. In his talk, Dr. Valente presents research documenting the use of social network data to understand and change health behaviors. He also presents data from experiences using mass media to promote healthy behaviors and studies of the interaction of impersonal and personal media. You can also download the audio from the Podcasts page.

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Beyond Bioethics: Thinking About Ethics in Public Health
Special Seminar
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD
University of Minnesota
May 12, 2005

Dr. Kahn holds the Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics, and is Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, where he has been on the faculty since 1996. He is also Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medical School; Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health; and in the Department of Philosophy. He was the plenary speaker for Beyond Bioethics: Second Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning.

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Talking Public Health: America’s Second Language
Special Seminar
Lawrence Wallack, DrPH
Portland State University
May 5, 2005

Lawrence Wallack is Dean of the College of Urban & Public Affairs at Portland State University. His talk focused on the interaction between values, framing, and public discourse on public health issues.

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Getting Our World Into Shape So We Can Too
Special Seminar
Dr. Richard Jackson
California Department of Health Services
April 25, 2005

Dr. Jackson is State Public Health Officer for the California Department of Health Services and a former director of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His talk discussed how the built environment affects public health.

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Antiretroviral treatment for 3 million people in developing countries by the end of 2005: Changing minds and changing history
Stephen Gloyd Endowded Lecture
Jim Yong Kim
World Health Organization
February 8, 2005

Dr. Jim Yong Kim is Director of the HIV/AIDS Department of the World Health Organization and a Founding Trustee of Partners In Health. Dr. Kim spoke on the "3 by 5" campaign providing HIV/AIDS retroviral treatment to 3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Social Determinants and The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
Special Seminar
Prof. Lisa Berkman
Harvard School of Public Health
February 27, 2004

Lisa Berkman is Thomas Cabot Professor of Public Policy and the Chair of Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She also served as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century. Dr. Berkman spoke on the IOM's recent publication The Future of the Public's Health and how social relationships and patterns will affect public health outcomes in the forthcoming years.

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Mapping Early Childhood Development: The BC Experience
Special Seminar
Prof. Clyde Hertzman, MD
University of British Columbia and the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research
February 3, 2004

Clyde Hertzman, MD, is on the faculty of the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia; he is also Director for the Program in Population Health. Dr. Hertzman has been a central figure in the development of the "determinants of health" framework and the role of early childhood development as one of these determinants. This is his second seminar given in the School; he previously spoke on "Evolution of the Concept of 'Population Health' in Canada and its Impact on Public Policy" at the October 1998 Grand Rounds.

Professor Stephen Bezruchka was kind enough to provide his notes from this lecture as well as an identical seminar Dr. Hertzman gave the previous day to Public Health Seattle-King County.

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Identifying environmental risk factors for disease: from slam dunks to needles in haystacks
Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Harvey Checkoway
Department of Epidemiology
February 27, 2003

Harvey Checkoway, Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health and Director of the UW Superfund Basic Research Program, spoke on "Identifying Environmental Risk Factors for Disease: From Slam Dunks to Needles in Haystacks." Checkoway's research and teaching focus on occupational and environmental risk factors for chronic diseases, and he is currently leading a study on Parkinson's disease.

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Longitudinal Studies: Past, Present, and Future
Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Richard Kronmal
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
October 22, 2002

Richard Kronmal, Professor of Biostatistics, spoke on "Longitudinal Studies: Past, Present, and Future." Dr. Kronmal has been a Department of Biostatistics faculty member since the founding of the department (and the School) in 1970. He is currently director of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

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Quality of Life and Health of the Public
Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Donald L. Patrick
Department of Health Services
February 26, 2002

Donald Patrick, Professor of Health Services and Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, spoke on "Quality of Life and Health of the Public." Patrick is internationally known for his research on health and quality of life measures, especially as applied to vulnerable populations. His work has focused on improving measures of health status and life quality to reflect the perceptions of the people involved and to apply these findings to public health policy and resource allocation.

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The Design and Analysis of Microarray Experiments
Kathleen Kerr, PhD
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
September 25, 2001

Dr. Kerr gave a workshop for investigators on the design and analysis of spotted microarray experiments.

Spotted cDNA microarrays are a powerful and cost-effective tool for high-throughput analysis of gene expression. As the potential of microarray technology has become apparent, important issues persist in experimental design and data analysis. In Dr. Kerr's first presentation, she discussed some of the fundamental concepts in experimental design, including confounding. She related these concepts to microarrays with a data example, and discussed various considerations for designing a microarray study. In the second presentation, Dr. Kerr discussed some of the basic issues in microarray data analysis, including normalization and error-modeling. Dr. Kerr also presented a method for statistically evaluating the results of clustering analyses.

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