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Wednesday Seminars 2023-2024
12:15 - 1:20 p.m.
Hybrid Seminars | In person in room W2030 or via Zoom
Join us for exciting and engaging weekly seminars led by experts, covering important public health topics.
Contact PFRH-Communications if you have any questions. When available, recordings to past events will be uploaded within three business days.
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Past Seminars 2022-2024
When available, recordings of our past seminars are uploaded in this section.
03/06/2024 - Ouagadougou Partnership: How much do you know about SHR in Francophone West Africa?
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | March 6, 2024
Speaker:
Marie Ba, MA
Director
Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination
02/28/2024 - Advancing Family Planning Through Advocacy
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | February 28, 2024
Speakers:
Duff Gillespie, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Formerly Co-Principal Investigator, Advance Family Planning
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Beth Fredrick, BA
Independent Consultant
Formerly Co-Principal Investigator, Advance Family Planning
Deputy Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
Sabrina Karklins, MPA, BA
Independent Consultant
Formerly Project Director, Advance Family Planning
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
02/21/2024 - Bringing Youth ParticipatoryAction into Health Communication Research
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | February 21, 2024
Speaker:
Robin Stevens, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor | Associate Dean of Research
Director, Health Equity & Media Lab
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
02/07/2024 - Structural Xenophobia and Birth Outcomes: U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Perspectives
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | February 7, 2024
Speaker:
Goleen Samari, PhD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
University of Southern California
09/20/2023 - Global Women's Health and Gender Equity: Evidence to Action Leadership Panel to Advance SDG5
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | September 20, 2023
Moderated by Michele Decker, ScD, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speakers:
Feinian Chen, PhD Professor of Sociology Director of Hopkins Population Center Johns Hopkins University
Anita Raj, PhD Professor, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Executive Director, Newcomb Institute of Tulane University
Jay Silverman, PhD Professor of Medicine and Global Public Health University of California at San Diego
04/12/2023 – Food Access for Infants and Toddlers in Maryland: Promoting Nutrition and Health Equity
Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, RD
Associate Scientist
BSPH-PFRH
Darriel Harris, PhD
Research Associate
BSPH-Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
Felicia Jones Taylor, Ed.D
Prenatal to Three Project Director
Building Better Beginnings
Maryland Family Network
04/05/2023 - Policy Approaches for Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Schools
Erin R. Hager, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
03/08/2023 - COVID-19, Fertility, and Perinatal outcomes in the US: What have we learned so far?
Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
03/01/2023 - Elevating Adolescent Voices in Crises and Stability
Pari Chowdhary, MPH
Senior Technical Advisor for Sexual and Reproductive Health
CARE
02/16/2023- Leaping the hurdles and navigating the maze: Grant writing tips for research funding, an NIH perspective
Susan Newcomer, PhD
Health Scientist Administrator (Retired)
National Institutes of Health
Population Dynamics Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
01/25/2023 - Using Population-Based Surveys to Understand the Maternity Care Experience of Women in Ethiopia: Evidence from PMA Ethiopia
Linnea A. Zimmerman, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Principal Investigator PMA Ethiopia
Elizabeth Stierman, PhD, MPH
Assistant Scientist
Department of International Health
12/07/2022 - Women's status & Reproductive & Maternal Health in South Asia: Highlights from two studies in Nepal
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MSC
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Institute for Global Health Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
11/16/2022 - Advancing inclusivity for students with LGBTQ identities through school-based approaches
Leigh E. Szucs, PhD, CHES
Health Scientist
Research Application and Evaluation Branch Division of Adolescent and School Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nicholas Suarez, MPH
Health Scientist
Division of Adolescent and School Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
11/09/2022 - Support through Separation: Justice-Involved Women and their Children in Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs: Insights from Frontline Staff
This was part four of a four-part webinar series organized by the National University Collaborative on the Health of Justice-Involved Women and Children (JIWC). This webinar was sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health.
Alyssa Silver, Home visiting Program Supervisor, and Gretchen O’Brien, Family Support Worker, shared their experiences serving justice-involved women and children in their program, highlight the unique challenges these families face, and put forth their vision for a home visiting approach to best meet the needs of these families.
Moderated by
Dylan Jackson, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Population, Family and Reprodcutive Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
11/02/2022 - Included: Advancing Health Equity for People with Disabilities
Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Director
Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center
10/12/2022 - Advancing SRHR and Gender Equality through an M&E Partnership with the Global Financing Facility
Anju Malhotra, PhD, MA Professor of the Practice
Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Joint Seminar with the Department of International Health
09/28/2022 - Correcting for Verbal Autopsy Misclassification Bias in Cause-Specific Mortality Estimates
Abhirup Datta, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
09/14/2022 - Stories of our Faculty - PART II
- Saifuddin Ahmed, MBBS, PhD, Professor
- Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
- Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor
- Anne Lilly, MSPH, Research Associate
- Tamar Mendelson, PhD, Professor
- Farah Qureshi, ScD, MHS, Assistant Professor
- Astha Ramaiya, DrPH, Research Associate
- Xiaobin Wang, MD, ScD, MPH, Professor
- Allison West, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor
- Shannon Wood, PhD, MSc, Assistant Scientist
09/07/2022 - Stories of our Faculty - PART I
- Phil Anglewicz, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
- Suzanne Bell, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
- Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor
- Carolina Cardona, PhD, MHS, Assistant Scientist
- Beth Fredrick, Senior Associate
- Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, Associate Scientist
- Celia Karp, PhD, Assistant Scientist
- Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA, Professor
- Terri Powell, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
- Maria Trent, MD, MPH, Professor
E-News Spring/Summer 2023
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