Jef D. Boeke, Ph.D.
Director, High Throughput Biology Center
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine

Host: Steve Liebhaber, Ph.D.

Presenter: Paul Menard-Katcher

Clinical Research Work in Progress

Jef D. Boeke, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Director, High Throughput Biology Center

Johns Hopkins University

http://www.bs.jhmi.edu/MBG/boekelab/index.html

 

“Synthesis and scrambling of yeast chromosomes”

A leading psychiatrist and scholar exposes the racialization of a biologically based disease-starting with the civil rights era and continuing today. Please join Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD as he discusses his new book The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease.

Dr. Metzl is Frederick B. Rentschler II Chair of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society and is Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University.

Co-sponsored with the Center for Health Behavior Research, A CPHI Seminar Series Event featuring:

• Amy L. Gonzales, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar,
  University of Pennsylvania
  The Effects of Social Media Use on Mental and Physical Health
  Social media is used by the majority of Americans on a daily basis. What are the health implications for these practices? Amy Gonzales, a researcher at the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society scholar program, will present data on the ways in which everyday social media (e.g. cellphones, texting, Facebook, etc.) may influence mental and physical health. She’ll also describe new technologies that have been designed to change health behaviors and improve health, including eating behaviors in children or social interactions in low-income neighborhoods.
• Lyle H. Ungar, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania; also holds appointments in various other departments in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, Business, and Medicine
  Estimating well-being from Tweets and Facebook Posts
  The words people use on social media such as Twitter and Facebook are a rich, if imperfect, source of information about their personality and psychological state. This talk will give an introduction to recent work in estimating subjective well-being from social media word use, focusing on an effort at Penn to use tweets and Facebook posts to characterize variations in PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, meaning, and accomplishment) over time and location. These estimates of psychological states correlate significantly with a variety of health outcomes as measured by Gallup polls and the CDC.
  Joint work with Andy Schwartz, Johannes Eichstaedt, Peggy Kern, Stephanie Ramones, Lukasz Dziurzynski and Martin Seligman

 

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Use and Challenges of Health Research Across Disciplines Using Social and Digital Media

February 13th (Monday) 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street
Lunch will be provided

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Featuring:

• Amy L. Gonzales, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar,
  University of Pennsylvania
  The Effects of Social Media Use on Mental and Physical Health
  Social media is used by the majority of Americans on a daily basis. What are the health implications for these practices? Amy Gonzales, a researcher at the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society scholar program, will present data on the ways in which everyday social media (e.g. cellphones, texting, Facebook, etc.) may influence mental and physical health. She’ll also describe new technologies that have been designed to change health behaviors and improve health, including eating behaviors in children or social interactions in low-income neighborhoods.
  
• Lyle H. Ungar, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania; also holds appointments in various other departments in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, Business, and Medicine
  Estimating well-being from Tweets and Facebook Posts
  The words people use on social media such as Twitter and Facebook are a rich, if imperfect, source of information about their personality and psychological state. This talk will give an introduction to recent work in estimating subjective well-being from social media word use, focusing on an effort at Penn to use tweets and Facebook posts to characterize variations in PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, meaning, and accomplishment) over time and location. These estimates of psychological states correlate significantly with a variety of health outcomes as measured by Gallup polls and the CDC.
  Joint work with Andy Schwartz, Johannes Eichstaedt, Peggy Kern, Stephanie Ramones, Lukasz Dziurzynski and Martin Seligman