Brown University's School of Public Health's National Public Health Week Events

 

It’s National Public Health Week! “Protecting, Connecting and Thriving: We Are All Public Health” April 1 - 7, 2024 National Public Health Week is a week-long, annual celebration of public health supported by the American Public Health Association and honored at Brown University with events and opportunities that highlight the public health impact of Brown’s research community and the importance of public health in all our lives.

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Public Health Research Day Tuesday, April 2 1 - 3:30 PM | Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting Street The School of Public Health's annual research conference highlights the research accomplishments of Brown's students, trainees and partners. All members of the Brown community are welcome to visit the poster session to learn more about Brown students’ high-impact public health work. Learn more

Our Storied Health: Anonymous Sister Wednesday, April 3 5:30 PM reception, 6 PM film screening Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street Our Storied Health Film and Media Series is a year-long integrated media experience that illuminates the importance of our collective health and what can be done to enhance it. Through film screenings, campus conversations and how-to workshops, this series showcases the power of storytelling as a public health intervention. When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Thirty years in the making, Anonymous Sister is Emmy Award®-winning director, Jamie Boyle’s chronicle of her family’s collision with the opioid epidemic. Join the Pandemic Center and the Brown Arts Institute for a reception at 5:30 PM and film screening at 6 PM, with panel and community discussion to follow. Learn more

LeaRRn Grand Rounds: Social Determinants of Health Data in a Learning Health System Monday, April 1 3 PM | Virtual This Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network Grand Rounds will feature a panel of three rehabilitation providers who will discuss initiatives within their health systems to collect and use social determinants of health data. Beyond Risk & Erasure: A Black Feminist Ethnography of HIV/AIDS & Reproductive Justice in Jamaica Tuesday, April 2 5:30 p.m. | Pembroke Hall This talk frames Dr. Jallicia Jolly’s articulation of a Black transnational feminist ethnography of HIV/AIDS and reproduction that confronts the erasures of Black women’s political labor and their reproductive desires in the current management of the long-term pandemic.

Don’t Feed the Bugs: Reproducibility and Transparency From a Health Policy Perspective Wednesday, April 3 11 AM | Room 241, 121 S Main St. Does your code work? How are you sure? Software engineers have thought a lot about answers to these questions. Researchers, not so much. In this talk, Professor Alyssa Bilinski will discuss better systems for reproducibility and transparency could both improve science and help researchers, and she’ll talk about what these could look like in health policy. Community-Based Participatory Research for Public Health Wednesday, April 3 Noon | Virtual In this Research!America Alliance discussion, Professor Karen Andes will explain the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), and provide a brief overview of participatory approaches to public health research, particularly as related to working with special or “hard-to-reach” populations. She will discuss some of the challenges in applying CBPR, as well as the unique opportunities it offers to prioritize the lived experience of participants.

Leadership in Action: Madina Agénor Wednesday, April 3 5 PM | Virtual The Leadership in Action Webinar Series, hosted by Brown’s Online MPH program, features real and intimate conversations enabling students to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on the career paths of our extraordinary leaders. Professor Madina Agénor will discuss racism, sexism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism in sexual and reproductive health care settings among mutliply-marginalized groups, as well as Black women's community health and reproductive justice organizing and activism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Power of Mistakes and Failure Thursday, April 4 Noon | McKinney Conference Room (353), Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs The United States is known and respected worldwide for its innovation. But innovation, at its core, relies on failure and a freedom to learn from failure. Former Ambassador Suzi LeVine will share how other nations view failure vs. the U.S. and will present the failed starts of many individuals we currently consider successful. She will also tell tales of learning from failure in her own non-linear career. Lunch provided.

Federated Research: Opportunities for Health System Comparisons Thursday, April 4 3 PM | Room 375, 121 S Main St. Center for Health System Sustainability (CHeSS) Seminar: Building on the lessons learned in several international research projects, Dr. Enrique Bernal-Delgado will discuss key issues in the deployment of federated research including how to achieve the data-visiting principle, the orchestration of the nodes in a federation, and the need for semantic and technical interoperability. Strengths Based Approaches to Substance Use Prevention for Black Girls Friday, April 5 Noon | Room 245, 121 S Main St. The CAAS Postdoctoral Training Program's 2024 Angela K. Stevens Memorial Lecture presents Ijeoma Opara, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at the Yale School of Public Health. Opara is founder and director of the Substance Abuse & Sexual Health Lab at Stony Brook University and director of a consulting agency that offers training to youth, community-based organizations, companies and schools on topics related to substance use prevention and sexual health.

Behind the Lectern: Malabika Sarker Trained as a physician in her native Bangladesh, Malabika Sarker served the maternal needs of women in a rural village early in her career. Soon the urge to improve health through systems-level change pulled her to the field of implementation science and public health. “It doesn't matter how good you are as a doctor,” she told us. “There are other factors with influence.” Today, an internationally known expert in public health implementation science, Sarker focuses on those other factors.  As professor of the practice of behavioral and social sciences in the School of Public Health, Sarker works toward closing the gap between the evidence-based practices that we know improve health, and the methods and tactics that are actually used in health care practice. Through research and teaching, she investigates the forces that slow or stop uptake of proven health interventions and those that foster evidence based practices. We spoke to Sarker about her global career, the importance of community and advocacy, and why she thinks the Brown School of Public Health is well positioned for the 21st century. Read the Interview

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Brown Undergraduate Journal of Public Health We’ll be sharing newly released articles from the 2024 edition of the BUJPH all week long, along with special video spots featuring student authors.

Student Spotlight: Saylor Lewtschenko Online MPH student Saylor Lewtschenko discusses her work in veterans’ health and how her path led her to Brown. Premieres April 4.

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