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Wednesday Seminars 2022-2023

12:15 - 1:20 p.m. – Hybrid Seminars

W2030 and 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.

Upcoming Events

Past Seminars 2022-2023

When available, recordings of our past seminars are uploaded in this section.

04/12/2023 – Food Access for Infants and Toddlers in Maryland: Promoting Nutrition and Health Equity
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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