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Designing and Conducting Focus Groups
Led by Dr. John LaVelle, PhD, this interactive course will provide an overview of focus group procedures that can be used in public and non-profit environments.
University of Minnesota
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http://twin-cities.umn.edu/
612-625-5000
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Consortium for Workforce Research in Public Health (CWORPH) Year 1 Findings
Join us to hear about Public Health Workforce Recruitment: Review of State Civil Service Hiring Laws and Public Health Nurses in the COVID-19 Response: Roles, Skills and Training Needs
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Justice in Public Health: Is the US Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? Stories of the Black Experience in Minnesota
In Partnership with the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health Seminar Series The US drug overdose epidemic is often portrayed as a white epidemic. But this masks its very real impacts on communities of color. Dr. Smith and community partners from the African American Survivor Services will discuss their ongoing research collaboration exploring a key…
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Learning Lab Series: How to Conduct an Online Focus Group with Richard Krueger
In this session, Dr. Richard Krueger, a recognized authority on the use of focus group interviewing within the public and non-profit environment, will share how to conduct an online focus group, and help participants develop the skills and techniques useful in online focus group interviewing. About the speaker: Richard Krueger is professor emeritus at the…
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EpiCH Seminar Series: CARDIA: One Cohort’s Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presented by: Pamela Schreiner (she/her), Ph.D., Professor Division of Epidemiology and Community Health University of Minnesota The CARDIA Study is an NHLBI-funded contract that has been seeing participants since 1985. We were scheduled to start the Year 35 clinic visit, our 10th exam, in June 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic delayed observational research studies. This…
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MCHIG’s First General Meeting – Highlighting Postpartum Mental Health
Join the Maternal and Child Health Interest Group (MCHIG) for a virtual topic night on postpartum mental health. The conversation will be focused on new initiatives announced on the Department of Health and Human Services’ Maternal Health Day of Action, specifically those related to mental health.
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Justice in Public Health: The Conditions for Nourishment: Notes on Food Justice, Delight, and the Black Radical Imagination
This talk draws from previous ethnographic research conducted in Washington, D.C., new research on prison agriculture, and lessons learned from community-based organizations to offer insights into how to create equitable food systems. Specifically, this talk moves beyond the biological imperative of access to healthy food to explore the social and cultural significance of creating meals…
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EpiCh Seminar Series: New Developments in Difference-in-Differences
Presented by: Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Ph.D., M.A. Senior Research Economist Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute Difference-in-differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two-groups and two periods, is well-understood. When researchers go beyond that simple case, however, empirical practices can be ad hoc and unreliable. This article provides an organizing…
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Martinson Lecture: Pursuing Understanding, Taking Action: Conducting and Evaluating Community- Based Research
Featuring: Marsha Davis, (she/her), Ph.D., Dean, College of Public Health University of Georgia This presentation will cover the core principles of community-based research and the essential infrastructure and resources required to facilitate and support this kind of research. To provide a deeper understanding, applications of these principles in projects undertaken at the University of Georgia…
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Practice Day: Discover How Public Health Knowledge Meets Real-World Impact
Join the SPH community on November 2nd for Practice Day: Discover how public health knowledge meets real-world impact! Meet representatives from local organizations, learn from students who will be showcasing their practicum experience and grab a bite to eat. Local organization in attendance (and counting): Mental Health Minnesota University YMCA, Y of the North Minnesota…
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Dianne Neumark-Sztainer Regents Professorship Celebration
Please join us to honor our colleague and friend Dianne Neumark-Sztainer on her recent Regents Professorship honor. Dianne has been a part of the SPH community for 29 years. Her impact has included innovative, accomplished, and exemplary work that has transformed our understanding of eating, activity, and weight-related health in young people and helped set…
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CANCELLED: EpiCH Seminar Series – Bringing Intersectionality into Sex, Gender, and Health Research
This event is postponed. Stay tuned for a new date announcement Presented by: Greta Bauer, Ph.D., M.P.H. Professor and Director, ELI Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health University of Minnesota Medical School Sex(es) and gender(s) impact the public's health in ways that are multidimensional, and involve entangled causal pathways related to biological, behavioral, and…
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Global Health Symposium
The GHWG invites you to join our Global Health symposium. This year the symposium is being co organized with Universidad CES in Medellin, Colombia and will focus on common challenges and solutions to global health problems for an interconnected world. Sessions to include: Uncomfortable Truths about Global Health. Presented by: Alejandro Gaviria Uribe, Economist and…
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EpiCH Seminar Series – Predictors and Risk Factors for Adverse Health Outcomes in Women During and After Pregnancy
Presented by: Ugochinyere Vivian Ukah, (she/her), Ph.D., M.P.H. Assistant Research Investigator HealthPartners Institute Pregnancy complications, such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and other severe maternal morbidity, disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic women and other vulnerable populations and can result in serious short-term health outcomes for both mother (e.g., eclampsia and stroke), and child (e.g., stillbirth,…
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Bright Spots Mini-Lab: Template Analysis–A Method for Rapid Qualitative Inquiry in Public Health Research
The Bright Spots Mini-Lab supports the growing interest in qualitative and mixed methods research among public health practitioners, students, and researchers. "Learning Lab" sessions provide attendees with an opportunity to learn from and consult with experts on activities that build on the qualitative research skills they’ve learned in classrooms or while at work in their…
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