Grand Rounds, Lectures, and Speakers

Published on Friday, May 10, 2024

John D. Bower School of Population Health Distinguished Lectureship

SOPH was honored to welcome Vivek Shandas, PhD, for the Distinguished Population Health Lectureship: Heat, Health, and Housing: Designing Our Cities for Human Health and Well-Being in a Rapidly Warming World. Dr. Shandas presented a compelling study of the role physical structures play in determining the outcome of public health.

Forge AHEAD

Tiffany Haynes, PhD, 3/20/24, Fostering Health Equity for Black Men: Insights from the Barbershop Talk Project

Grand Rounds:

Josie Bidwell, DNP, RN, FNP-C, DipACLM, FACLM; Lifestyle Medicine and the Quintuple Aim; 6/24/24.

Jameshyia Ballard; Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: Let’s Talk About Mississippi WIC; 7/22/24.

Israel Agaku, DMD, MPH, PhD, PhD, MBA; A Risk-Based Framework for AI use in Research: Balancing Ethics, Innovation, and Productivity; 8/26/24.

Melissa R. Stephens, MD, MS, FAAFP, DABFM; Change Can’t Wait: Seeking Solutions for the Maternal Health Crisis in Mississippi; 9/23/24.

Monica Webb Hooper, PhD; Minority Health and Health Disparities Science: A Closer Look at NIMHD Initiatives and Resources; 10/28/24.

Lance Waller, PhD; Map: A Statistical View; 11/18.24.

Population Health Science Lecture Series

Meagan A. Brown, PharmD, BCAP, Pharmacy, Population Health, and Research

Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series

Kelly H. Zou, PhD, PStat,  FASA, 2/1/24, Optimizing Patient Care Through Real-World Evidence and Artificial Intelligence

Yuqiu "Ian" Yang, PhD Candidate, 4/17/24, Linking Immune-Informatics Research at the Molecular Scale to the Population Scale

Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, MBA, 5/2/24, AI in Medicine

Xinran Qim, PhD, 5/3/24, Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Hypothesis Testing Problems Structured with Side Information 

Nilabja Guha, PhD, 5/8/24, Modeling Changes in the Data Generating Distribution: Some Recent Developments and Applications

Lucy Xi Lu, PhD, 5/28/24, Robust Bayesian Methods to Sparse High-Dimensional Regression