Speakers and seminars

Forge AHEAD

Julie Locher, PhD; Word Matter: Effective and Appropriate Scientific Communication; 11/6/24.

Population Health Grand Rounds:

Jameshyia Ballard; Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: Let’s Talk About Mississippi WIC; 7/22/24.

Israel Agaku, DMD, MPH, PhD, PhD, MBA; A Risk-Based Framework for AI use in Research: Balancing Ethics, Innovation, and Productivity; 8/26/24.

Melissa R. Stephens, MD, MS, FAAFP, DABFM; Change Can’t Wait: Seeking Solutions for the Maternal Health Crisis in Mississippi; 9/23/24.

Monica Webb Hooper, PhD; Minority Health and Health Disparities Science: A Closer Look at NIMHD Initiatives and Resources; 10/28/24.

Lance Waller, PhD; Map: A Statistical View; 11/18.24.

Population Health Science Lecture Series

Chinedum Ojinnaka, PhD, MBBS, MPH; State-based Assessments of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Associations with Hypertensive Outcomes; 9/17/24.

Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series

Chaoyang "Joe" Zhang, PhD; The Transformative Potential of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Research and Healthcare; 7/31/24.

Chetkar Jha, PhD; Multiple Hypothesis Testing to Eliminate the Numbers of Communities in Sparse Stochastic Block Models; 8/20/24.

Md Tareq Ferdous Klan, PhD; Study 1: Circadian Blood Pressure Dysregulation in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Study 2: Health outcomes Associated with Patterns of Substance Use Disorders Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension: Electronic Health Record Findings; 9/3/24. 

Rebecca Hubbard, PhD; Not so Fast: Accelerating Precision Medicine with EHR Data While Safeguarding Medically Underserved Populations ;9/5/24.

Elizabeth Stuart, PhD; Integrating Data for Causal Inference; 10/3/24.

Joseph C. Cappelleri, PhD, MPH, MS; Adjusting for Bias in Responder Analysis of Patient-Reported Outcomes; 11/7/24.