Grand Rounds, Lectures, and Speakers
John D. Bower School of Population Health Distinguished Lectureship
SOPH was honored to welcome Vivek Shandas, PhD, for the Distinguished Population Health Lectureship: Heat, Health, and Housing: Designing Our Cities for Human Health and Well-Being in a Rapidly Warming World. Dr. Shandas presented a compelling study of the role physical structures play in determining the outcome of public health.
Forge AHEAD
Tiffany Haynes, PhD, 3/20/24, Fostering Health Equity for Black Men: Insights from the Barbershop Talk Project
Grand Rounds:
Daniel Edney, MD, FACP, FASAM, 1/22/24, State of the State: A Public Health Perspective
John R. Mitchell, MD, FAAFP, 2/26/24, What’s Up With Mississippi’s Physician Workforce: A Geospacial Look at Current Trends
Ben Walker, PhD, 3/25/24, Echos of Adversity: How Adverse Childhood Experiences Shape Population Health in Mississippi
Nancy Krieger, PhD, 4/22/24, Embodied Truths, Scientific Integrity, and Health Justice: Rhetoric, Racism, and Reality
Matthew C. Morris, PhD, 5/20/24, Disparities in Traumatic Injury Care and Outcomes
Population Health Science Lecture Series
Meagan A. Brown, PharmD, BCAP, Pharmacy, Population Health, and Research
Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series
Kelly H. Zou, PhD, PStat, FASA, 2/1/24, Optimizing Patient Care Through Real-World Evidence and Artificial Intelligence
Yuqiu "Ian" Yang, PhD Candidate, 4/17/24, Linking Immune-Informatics Research at the Molecular Scale to the Population Scale
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, MBA, 5/2/24, AI in Medicine
Xinran Qim, PhD, 5/3/24, Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Hypothesis Testing Problems Structured with Side Information
Nilabja Guha, PhD, 5/8/24, Modeling Changes in the Data Generating Distribution: Some Recent Developments and Applications
Lucy Xi Lu, PhD, 5/28/24, Robust Bayesian Methods to Sparse High-Dimensional Regression