Center for Public Health Initiatives

The CPHI Digest

September 9, 2009 • Volume 2.18

Announcements

  • CPHI Fellow Dr. Giang Nguyen discussed 'Ethnic Elders and the Community' on the PBS series 'Life (Part 2)'!
    View the clip here.
  • The CPHI's seminar series "Creative Action: The Arts in Public Health" featured in the Pennsylvania Gazzette!
    Read the article here
  • Come tweet with us on Twitter! You can now follow CPHI/General Public Health events and news on Twitter.  To join, please visit our twitter site at http://twitter.com/CPHIatUPenn.

Public Health Events

(Visit our Public Health Events Calendar for more information)
9/11/09 @ 8:30-2p
Friday
Bridging the Gaps - 2009 Symposium
Location: Philadelphia
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The BTG Annual Symposium is held each fall in Philadelphia. Students present their projects as poster displays and facilitate workshops based on the public health issues they encountered during their BTG Community Health Internship. The Symposium is open to the broader community, providing a forum for dialogue and networking opportunities among public health officials, community organizations and agency personnel, grantmakers, academic faculty and staff, students, and others interested in improving the quality of life in our communities.
9/11/09 @ 12p
Friday
LDI Seminar: Sending the Right Message on Health Care Reform: The battle for hearts and minds
Location: Colonial Penn Center, Auditorium
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Drew Westen, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Emory University.
9/14/09 @ 12p
Monday
Arts and Urban Transformations Impacting Health
Speaker: Jane Golden, Director, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Location: Amado Room, Irvine Auditorium
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The inaugural event of the 2009-2010 CPHI seminar series - Creative Action: The Arts in Public Health. Featuring Jane Golden, executive director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. The event is co-sponsored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research.  The series is co-sponsored by Arts and the City Year, Civic House, VA CHERP, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
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9/16/09 @ 4p
Wednesday
Crossing Borders: Narcotics & Encounters Across Neighborhoods and Nations
Location: Claire M. Fagin Hall - Ann L. Roy Auditorium
 
Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine Present: Dean's Lecture Series
Maria Medina-Mora, PhD, Chief Director, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de a Fuente, Mexico City, Mexico. Philippe Bourgois, PhD, Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine in the Schools of Medicine and of Arts and Sciences, Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, University of Pennsylvania
9/17/09 @ 12p
Thursday
Changing the Sociocultural Environment to Re-Integrate Physical Activity into Daily Routine
Location: 3535 Market Street Room 4123, 4th Floor
 
Seminar Series in Community-Based Research and Health Disparities. Antronnette K. Yancey, MD, MPH, FACPM UCLA School of Public Health; UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.  Sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry Center for Community-Based Research and Health Disparities, Abramson Cancer Center, Center for Public Health Initiatives, Clinical and Translational Science Award.
9/17/09 @ 3:30p
Thursday
Doc2Folk: Sampling my Suitcase of Spoken Word
Artist: Toni Yancey, MD MPH (UCLA School of Public Health)
Location: Heyer Sky Lounge, Harrison College House
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2009-2010 CPHI seminar series - Creative Action: The Arts in Public Health. Featuring Toni Yancey, Co-Director, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, DrPH Program Director, Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health. This event is co-sponsored by Harrison College House, Excelano Project, and University Life (VPUL) Arts Initiative. The seminar series is co-sponsored by Arts and the City Year, Civic House, VA CHERP, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
***Due to the location of this event, non PennCard holders must RSVP for this event.
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10/7/09 @ 4p
Wednesday
Visual Legal Advocacy and the Creative Use of Video by Law Students
Location: Class of 1964 Auditorium, John Morgan Building
RSVP at cphi@pobox.upenn.edu
 
This event is part of the Center for Public Health Initiative's 2009-2010 Seminar Series "Creative Action: the Arts in Public Health" Featured Speaker: Regina Austin, JD, William A. Schnader Professor of Law, PennLaw. The seminar series is co-sponsored by Arts and the City Year, Civic House, VA CHERP, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
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10/8/09
Thursday
Pennsylvania Public Health Association - 2009 Annual Conference
Location: Pittsburgh
Register/More Info
 
Conference Title: Shrinking Dollars, Growing Needs: Proposed Solutions For Pennsylvania’s Health System
10/9/09
Friday
Penn CIGHT 2nd Annual Symposium - Is Personalized Medicine in Your Future?
Location: Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street
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Penn Faculty Speakers: Joseph Cappella PhD; Srah Gollust PhD; Caryn Lerman PhD; Katrina Armstrong MD MSCE; Kate Nathanson MD; Chanita Hughes-Halbert PhD; Ruth Schwartz Cowan PhD; Reed Pyeritz MD PhD; Barbara Bernhardt MS CGC; Joseph McInerney MS CGC

Public Health Opportunities

(please visit our Opportunities Calendar for more information)

Conferences

 
November 5-7
Society for Public Health Education Conference (SOPHE): An invitation to innovation
Location: Sheraton City Center, Philadelphia
Sponsored by: SOPHE. For more information, please visit: www.sophe.org
November 7
APHA-SA 5th Annual National Student Meeting: “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transforming the U.S. Health Care System”
Location: Philadelphia, Pa (at the APHA meeting)
Registration Form/Agenda
November 7-11
APHA Annual Meeting "Water and Public Health: the 21st Century Challenge"
Location: Philadelphia, Pa
more information: http://www.apha.org/meetings/
December 3
2009 Annual CPHI Retreat (More information will be available soon)
April 7-10, 2010
Penn-ICOWHI 18th International Congress on Women’s Health
“Cities and Women's Health: Global Perspectives"

Location: Philadelphia, Pa
Information: http:www.icowhi.org
May 10, 2010
College of Physicians Public Health Poster Session (More information to come)

Miscellaneous

 
December 5
2009 Sparky Awards - Public Health Category (A student video contest co-sponsored by the CPHI) More information.
May 31, 2010
2009-2010 Public Health Research Paper Competition
Date given is submission deadline. This competition is limited to graduate level students. More information
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