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.

Sep
29
Fri
Center for Population Health Sciences: Data Training | Truven and IPUMS @ Li Ka Shing Center, Room 320, 3rd floor
Sep 29 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences: Data Training | Truven and IPUMS @ Li Ka Shing Center, Room 320, 3rd floor | Palo Alto | California | United States

PHS is excited to offer a data training session on the Truven (9AM-11AM) and IPUMS  (11:15AM-1PM) datasets.  Join us to learn more about the key advantages of these datasets and how to work most efficiently them. We’ll cover an introduction to claims and census data, many dataset-specific tips and tricks on data manipulation and analysis, and the opportunity for you to ask any questions you might have. Coffee, refreshments, and snacks will be served.

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Feb
8
Thu
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Jonathan Kolstad, PhD, UCBerkeley @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Rm 320
Feb 8 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Jonathan Kolstad, PhD, UCBerkeley @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Rm 320 | Palo Alto | California | United States

The Role of Supply and Demand in Efficient Health Care Delivery: Evidence from Utah
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The project studies the implications of several distinct approaches to managing consumer health care using an all-payer claims data base from the state of Utah. We use forced switches where consumers must join one insurance model or the other to identify effects on cost and health. We study (i) consumers who join Select Health, which manages care through its health care partner intermountain as we (ii) consumers who join broad network high-deductible plans. We find that these models have a range of different cost and health impacts for consumers.

Oct
4
Thu
Route to Getting Grants (R2G2): Pitching Your Ideas @ Durand 450
Oct 4 @ 11:45 am – 1:00 pm

The Route to Getting Grants (R2G2) series will resume on Thursday 4th October 2018 in Durand 450, with talks about ‘Pitching Your ideas’ from Professor Tom Clandinin (Neurobiology) and Associate Professor Elizabeth Sattely (Chemical Engineering). Both speakers will address challenges such as how to frame your research question, how to ensure you have the right size project and how not to over promise and under deliver. In addition they will provide insight into how to tailor your grant for the specific funding agency and announcement and how best to sell yourself and your skills. There will also be time for questions to the speakers.

Professor Tom Clandinin is the Shooter Family Professor and his research aims to uncover fundamental new insights into the molecular mechanisms and functional consequences of neurodegenerative diseases. He has successfully obtained research grants from the NIH, NSF and various foundations.

Associate Professor Elizabeth Sattely‘s research uses a multidisciplinary approach combining chemistry, enzymology, genetics, and metabolomics to provide sustainable biofuel feedstocks, protect crops from pathogens, and discover new natural-product based therapeutics for human disease. She has been awarded grants from multiple agencies, including NIH, DoE and DOI.

Lunch will be available at 11:45 Presentation to follow at 12:00

Route to Getting Grants (R2G2) is a seminar series specially designed for junior faculty (target audience is Instructors or Faculty). Sessions cover all aspects of grant writing, delivered through panel sessions, workshops and focused talks. R2G2 will also provide unique networking opportunities, enabling cross faculty collaborations and multidisciplinary partnerships. R2G2 ensures that junior faculty have all the tools and strategies to lead them to grant success and on to independent research careers.

Jointly sponsored by Stanford Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford EARTH, and School of Engineering Research Administration.

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Mark your Calendar! Upcoming R2G2 events:

November 15, 2018 – What to say to Program Officers

January 17, 2019 – Writing Tricks of the Trade

March 21, 2019 – Writing Impactful Abstracts

April 18, 2019 – Assembling your team & Asking for Feedback

May 16, 2019 – Importance of collaborations: Implementing Team Science

Mar
22
Fri
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: David Rehkopf @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320
Mar 22 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series:  David Rehkopf @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320

An Introduction to Population Based Data for Studies of DNA Methylation

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DNA methylation is a fundamental biological process that is under both environmental and genetic control in humans. Technological developments over the last 5 years have lowered the price of DNA methylation assays to the extent that relatively large population based samples are now adding data on close to 1 million DNA methylation sites to well characterized cohorts. Examining patterns of DNA methylation offers population scientists a historically unprecedented opportunity to understand the biological pathways through which myriad social, environmental and behavioral factors change human biology in ways that may be related to long-term disease risk. My talk will give a background on what is currently known about the factors that impact DNA methylation, and what is known about how it is related to human development, chronic diseases and aging. I will describe currently available and soon to be available population based data sources for the analysis of DNA methylation data. The break-out session following the talk will go into further practical details on the use of these data sources.