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