Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars

We work with the Department of Population Health Sciences (and other partners) to offer seminars on current and emerging issues with broad relevance for population health at the state and national level. These seminars are part of the Department of Population Health Sciences weekly series, held on Mondays at noon throughout the academic year.

2012-2013 Schedule

October 1, 2012
Sex, Love and Money: Trends in U.S. Reproductive Health Policy
R. Alta Charo, JD, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Rm 1335 HSLC)
November 5, 2012
A Closer Look: Understanding Diabetes by Connecting Community Health and EHR Data
Brian Arndt, MD, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Larry Hanrahan MS, PhD, Director of Public Health Informatics and Chief Epidemiologist, Wisconsin Division of Public Health; Adjunct Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
December 3, 2012
The Link Between Income and Health
Bobbi Wolfe, MA, PhD, Professor of Public Affairs, Economics and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 4, 2013
Leadership for a Change: Unleashing the Power of Public Health
Magda G. Peck, ScD, Founding Dean and Professor, Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Rm 1325 HSLC)
March 4, 2013
Greatly Reducing Poverty in Wisconsin: Is It Possible? How Can We Do It? Would It Improve Health?
David Riemer, JD, Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute, Community Advocates; and Conor Williams, Economic Policy Analyst, Pathways to Ending Poverty, Community Advocates
April 1, 2013
Peak Oil, Food Systems and Public Health
Robert Lawrence, MD, Center for a Livable Future Professor and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. (Rm 1325 HSLC)
May 6, 2013
Federal, State and Local Legislative Action to Improve Nutrition and Health
Roberta Friedman, ScM, Director of Public Policy, Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity (Rm 1325 HSLC)

Seminars are held from 12:00-1:00 in room 1309 of the Health Sciences Learning Center unless othwise specified

To view the seminars approximately one week after the presentation, please see the Innovations in Medical Education Video Library