April 11, 2008
News Releases
• Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health Offers Training Program
• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Names Wolfe Board President
CPH in the News
• Students Promote Public Health
• Editorial: Public Opinion Merges with Public Health
• Teach Green -- Making Sustainability Part of the Curriculum
Briefs
• UI Highlights "Green" Projects for National Public Health Week
• Photos Help Community "Get the Picture" of Public Health
• Serving Up Ideas for Healthier School Lunches
• Spring Colloquium Is Set for April 24
• Take the Habitat for Humanity Housing Challenge
Research News
• Research Week Wrap-up
• NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
• Funding Opportunities
Student News
• Graduate Diversity Scholarship Applications Due April 30
• Apply Now for a Student Scholarship to Attend the SOPHE Meeting
• Free Child Care for Finals
IT Update
• IT Office Outlines Plans for SSN Policy Compliance
New Publications
• Faculty and Staff Publications
Featured Web Site
• This Is Public Health
News Releases
Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health Offers Training ProgramIowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (I-CASH) will host a
training program for health care professionals who treat and help
prevent occupational illnesses and injuries on the farm.
Read more...
Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute Names Wolfe Board
President
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a program of the UI Center
on
Aging, has named Connie Benton Wolfe president of its advisory
board.
Read more...
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Students Promote Public
Health
(Iowa City Press-Citizen, 4/8/2008)
To mark National Public Health Week, about 20 College of Public
Health
students put together a public health photo display available
for
viewing this week in the University of Iowa Hospitals and
Clinics.
"As public health students, we feel the majority of the general
public
doesn't know what public health is," said Master of Public
Health
student MARIA OSTERHAUS.
Read more...
Editorial:
Public Opinion Merges with Public Health
(Iowa City Press-Citizen, 4/9/2008)
An editorial in the Iowa City Press-Citizen mentions the efforts
of
CPH graduate students to raise awareness of public health through
a
photo display and visits to area elementary schools.
Read more...
Teach Green
-- Making Sustainability Part of the Curriculum
(The Daily Iowan, 4/9/2008)
PETER THORNE, professor of occupational and environmental health,
is
among a growing number of UI faculty members actively
supporting
initiatives to incorporate sustainability into the curriculum.
Read more...
Briefs
UI Highlights "Green" Projects for National Public Health WeekCPH Dean JAMES MERCHANT and University Hygienic Laboratory Director
CHRISTOPHER ATCHISON led a University of Iowa group to Des Moines on
Tuesday, April 8 to mark National Public Health Week at the State
Capitol.
Read more...
Photos Help
Community "Get the Picture" of Public Health
There’s still time to view the
collection of photographs taken by CPH
students as part of the student-led campaign,
“This Is Public Health:
Get the Picture?” In honor of National
Public Health Week, the photos
depicting public health services and issues will remain on display
in
the Fountain Entrance Lobby of the University of Iowa Hospitals and
Clinics
through the end of today. Additionally, select photos, along
with
public health collages created by local elementary school
students,
will be on view at Coral Ridge Mall during Family Free Friday
Night
from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 25. Visit the link below to view
an online
gallery of the photos.
View photos....
Serving Up
Ideas for Healthier School Lunches
The 2nd Annual Johnson County Local Food Summit, "Changing the Face
of
School Lunch: Thinking Outside the Tray," will take place
Thursday,
April 24, from 3 to 6 p.m. at West High School in Iowa City. The
free
program, co-sponsored by the College of Public Health and
featuring
faculty members LINDA SNETSELAAR and BETSY CHRISCHILLES, will focus
on
how school communities can work together to provide more
wholesome,
nutritious, and delicious food. The registration deadline is
Thursday, April 17.
Read more...
Spring
Colloquium Is Set for April 24
The Spring Colloquium sponsored by the Institute for Public
Health
Practice will take place Thursday, April 24, from 4 to 6 p.m.
in
the Clasen Board Room, 1329 John W. Colloton Pavilion, at the
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Registration is requested
by Thursday,
April 17.
Read more...
Take the
Habitat for Humanity Housing Challenge
The annual Habitat for Humanity Housing Challenge will take
place
Wednesday, April 16 from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Hubbard Park on
the
UI campus. Student groups will build a city of cardboard homes
to
raise awareness of the inadequate housing that exists across
the
world.
Read
more...
Research News
Research Week Wrap-upCongratulations to the Research Week 2008 poster session winners from
the College of Public Health: GANG CHENG, NERVANA METWALI, and WEI
XIE. A photo album of Research Week events and participants is now
available on the CPH Research Office web site.
Read more...
NIH
Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related
Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is notifying all
principal
investigators holding specific types of NIH research grants that
funds
are available for administrative supplements to improve the
diversity
of the research workforce by supporting and recruiting
students,
postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have
been
shown to be underrepresented.
Read
more...
Funding
Opportunities
The CPH Research Office web page has been updated with new
funding
opportunities as of Friday, April 11.
Read more...
Student News
Graduate Diversity Scholarship Applications Due April 30The Graduate Diversity Scholarship program is designed to
competitively award tuition scholarships to graduate students from
among groups disadvantaged and/or underrepresented in their fields of
graduate study. Applications are due to the Graduate College by Wednesday,
April 30. For additional information, contact Joe Coulter, professor and
association dean for diversity, at joe-coulter@uiowa.edu.
Apply Now
for a Student Scholarship to Attend the SOPHE Meeting
Students members of SOPHE are invited to apply for a Student
Support
Scholarship (up to $500 to be reimbursed) to attend the SOPHE
Mid-Year
Meeting in Chicago May 21-24. Applications for student support are
due
in the national SOPHE office no later than Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
Click on
the link below for full details and application instructions.
Read more...
Free Child
Care for Finals
Free child care for student families will be available on
selected
days in May before and during finals. Care will be provided at
Little
Angels Learning Center Child Care (214 East Jefferson St. in
Iowa
City) for infants through school-age children. Registration is
necessary to reserve your child care slot. The service is offered
by
Little Angels Learning Center and the UI Family Services
Office.
Read
more...
IT Update
IT Office Outlines Plans for SSN Policy ComplianceThe University of Iowa has initiated a policy to reduce and/or
eliminate the use of Social Security Numbers (SSN) for identification
purposes by June 30, 2008. In the coming weeks, the College of Public
Health Office of Information Technology plans to deploy software to
aid in the detection of SSN information within the CPH computer
network.
Read more...
New Publications
Faculty and Staff PublicationsRecent CPH faculty and staff publications.
Read more...
Featured Web Site
This Is Public HealthCheck out a video that illustrates the many ways that public health
touches everyday lives. Produced by the Association of Schools of
Public Health, it's quick, informative, and has a catchy beat.
Read more...
Upcoming Events
University and College of Public Health
Global Health Studies Program
Conference
This year's conference theme is "Health and Health Care --
Rights
and Responsibilities in Global Perspective."
Date: 4/11/2008 - 4/13/2008
Associated URL:
http://international.uiowa.edu/centers/global-health/events/upcoming/schedule.asp
CPH Research Council
Meeting
Date: 4/17/2008
Time: 8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Location: Remington Conference Room, E220C GH
Contact: Kathy Hicklin, kathy-hicklin@uiowa.edu
Master of Public Health
Last day for graduate students to drop
individual semester-length
courses or withdraw entire Spring Semester
registration
Date: 4/15/2008
Contact: Lexie Just, lexie-just@uiowa.edu
Community & Behavioral Health
CBH Journal Club
Article to be announced.
Date: 4/17/2008
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 2117 MERF
Contact: Arlys Thompson, arlys-thompson@uiowa.edu
Occupational & Environmental Health
OEH Seminar Series
Date: 4/15/2008
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 123/125 IREH
Contact: Karlyn Harthoorn, karlyn-harthoorn@uiowa.edu
Epidemiology
Epi Journal Club
Date: 4/15/2008
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: 2114 ML
Contact: Kathy Colbert, kathy-colbert@uiowa.edu
Epi Seminar
Date: 4/17/2008
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: S724 GH
Contact: Kathy Colbert, kathy-colbert@uiowa.edu
Biostatistics
Biostatistics Seminar
-- "Analysis of Case-control Studies in
Genetic Epidemiology: Efficiency Beyond Semi-parametric
Bounds"
Presented by: Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD, chief and senior
investigator,
Biostatistics Branch, NIH
Date: 4/14/2008
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:25 PM
Location: 1117 MERF
Contact: Ann Weber, ann-weber@uiowa.edu
Health Management & Policy
Women's Conference
Date: 4/18/2008
Location: Seebohm Conference Room
Contact: Torrie Malichky, torrie-malichky@uiowa.edu
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