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:
Josie Bidwell, DNP, RN, FNP-C, DipACLM, FACLM; Lifestyle Medicine and the Quintuple Aim; 6/24/24.
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
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