Dec
15
Thu
Center for Population Health Sciences | Seminar Series | Speaker: Peter Muennig, MD, MPH @ Li Ka Shing Center, LK320, 3rd Floor
Dec 15 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences | Seminar Series | Speaker: Peter Muennig, MD, MPH @ Li Ka Shing Center, LK320, 3rd Floor | Palo Alto | California | United States

Peter Muennig, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Title:  “Can We Expect Health or Monetary Returns on Investments in Cash Assistance, Education, and Transit Policies?”

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Accountable Care Organizations, the Centers for Medicare Studies, and the Affordable Care Act have all created a push toward the primary prevention of disease by addressing the non-medical determinants of health. This push has raised a number of questions with respect to which policies might actually address the non-medical determinants of health, which ones are appropriate for health care providers to address, and whether referrals to existing agencies will actually have any impact on the targets of existing programs and legislation (e.g., emergency department utilization and 30-day readmission rates). After a 25-minute presentation, we will have an actively-led discussion of these issues and will try to contextualize the discussion within what we know about the coming changes within the Trump administration.

*Note venue room change to LKSC 320

Feb
14
Tue
Center for Population Health Sciences | Seminar Series | Speaker: Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH @ Li Ka Shing Center, Berg Hall
Feb 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences | Seminar Series | Speaker: Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH @ Li Ka Shing Center, Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

“Directions in Population Health Science:  From Risks to Consequences”
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean
Boston University School of Public Health

Please register here for Sandro Galea’s talk on February 14, 2017.

A fundamental charge of epidemiology is to improve population health through the identification of and intervention on those ‘risks’ for disease that generate the greatest harm. Yet population health science as a discipline today faces substantial challenges to its relevance, suggesting that we need to take a hard look at how our discipline approaches inquiry. The dominant guiding paradigm informing the quantitative population health science approach has been the risk factor approach, and the experiment as the gold standard for estimating causal effects of individual exposures.

Feb
21
Wed
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: John W. Rowe, MD, Columbia University @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320
Feb 21 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: John W. Rowe, MD, Columbia University @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320 | Stanford | California | United States

Measuring the Adaptation of Countries to Societal Aging

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With  global aging,  increasing attention has been drawn to ways in which various countries may be adapting (or not) to the increases in their population of older persons. Such adaptations occur across many sectors of society, including social and financial supports, health care, labor force and the like. The Network on an Aging Society has developed a multi-sectoral Index of Societal Aging which provides a quantitative measure of the degree to which a country is adapting with respect to several factors of central importance to the capacity individuals to age successfully.  This Index can be used to estimate the effect of current and future policy changes and facilitates cross national comparisons.

May
2
Thu
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Sonalde Desai @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320
May 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Sonalde Desai @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320

Neither at Home, Nor in the Market: Low Returns on Women’s Education in India
Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland

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Dec
19
Thu
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320
Dec 19 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320

Intergenerational Health Mobility: Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place

Nascent research suggests intergenerational health mobility may be relatively high and non-genetic factors may make room for policy intervention. This project broadens this direction by considering heterogeneous intergenerational health mobility in spatial and contextual patterns. With 14,797 parent-child pairs from a school-based representative panel survey of adolescents (Add Health), this study finds large spatial variation in intergenerational health mobility in the United States. On average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th percentile of parent health is 47. These metrics however mask substantial spatial heterogeneity. Descriptive school- and contextual-level correlates of this spatial variation indicate localities with higher proportions of non-Hispanic blacks, school PTAs, or a school health education requirement may experience greater health mobility.

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Apr
28
Wed
Center for Population Health Sciences Research Seminar Series: Marissa Reitsma @ Online Event
Apr 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Research Seminar Series: Marissa Reitsma @ Online Event

Strategies to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

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Marissa Reitsma is a Health Policy PhD student and Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University

The COVID-19 epidemic has had a disproportionate impact on racial/ethnic minority populations in the US. In the initial rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, Black and Hispanic people have been under-represented among those receiving vaccinations, relative to both their share of the population and their shares of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Age-based vaccine eligibility schemes have potentially amplified disparities because of demographic differences across racial/ethnic populations, exacerbated further by differential access and vaccine confidence. In this seminar, we will discuss ongoing modeling work that examines how strategies focusing on geographic dose allocation, access barriers, and vaccine acceptance can affect both overall population benefits from vaccination and racial/ethnic disparities in the distribution of these benefits.