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Inside Public Health
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2022 |
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Dear Friends of the College,
So many things are happening in the college! From events to speaker series to alumni visits, we have been connecting in many ways with our students and the broader university community. In fact, because there is so much going on, and we are currently producing our 2022 Annual Report, we are going to keep this November newsletter short and sweet.
Just last week we had our 2022 Homecoming Celebration to recognize all we have accomplished over the past year and honor our alumni award winners. Congratulations again to our award winners!
Next week many of us will be attending the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting and expo in Boston, MA. If you’ll be attending the APHA, we hope you will join us for our APHA MEZCOPH Alumni Reception on Monday, November 7!
International Education Week at the University of Arizona will happen from November 14-18, and our Global Health Institute team will participate in outreach events and host presentations. Watch the college’s Global Health Institute website for more information!
Native American Heritage Month
We recognize November as Native American Heritage Month, a chance for us to celebrate our indigenous students, staff, and faculty and our collaboration with tribes in Arizona and globally on public health programs and research. Please join me to honor and thank everyone who supports Indigenous health in our MEZCOPH community!
This month you can participate in the Indigenous Data Sovereignty series that Dr. Stephanie Russo Carroll helped to organize, and you can join either or both of the two IndigiWellbeing events in November that Dr. Felina Cordova-Marks and grad student William Carson coordinate.
Community Town Hall
Our rescheduled Community Town Hall, hosted in collaboration with Arizona Town Hall, will take place on Wednesday, November 9, 3:30-6pm. The panel and discussion event, Exploring Solutions: Homelessness, Substance Use, and Mental Health, is open to all, register now! Food and soft beverages will be provided, and students are especially encouraged to attend.
Upcoming Climate Change Events
A daylong workshop organized by Dr. Mona Arora and Dr. Kacey Ernst, COVID, Climate Change & Preparedness: Lessons Learned, on November 18 will bring national experts on climate resilience as keynote speakers. Registration required.
Several of our faculty will also participate in a Climate Symposium titled Health and Environment Change: Pushing Research Boundaries Through Arizona-France Cooperation, organized by iGLOBES and the France-Arizona Institute for Global Grand Challenges on November 16 to be held in the HSIB building.
In addition, I’m proud and pleased that our faculty Dr. Aminata Kilungo and Dr. Yevheniia Varyvoda will attend the 2022 United Nations Climate Change conference COP27 in Egypt from November 6 to 18.
Gratitude for Our Community
I thank all of you for your ongoing support of the College and our public health mission. We live in troubling times, and so often public health offers solutions to the widespread suffering in this world. As we continue through the fall semester, I look forward to working with you to support our diverse communities, both locally and globally, with the best public health education, service, and research.
Best Wishes for your Health and Safety,
Iman |
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New Center Leads Collaborative Research to Improve Firefighter Health
Jeff Burgess, MD, MS, MPH, and his team of researchers will continue to study firefighter occupational health risks, delivering data that will inform decisions, practices and policies to improve firefighter safety and health.
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College Researchers Contribute to Annual Lancet Countdown Health and Climate Report
The annual Lancet Countdown report identifies the key health risks and negative health impacts caused by climate change. Mona Arora, PhD, MSPH, and Kacey Ernst, PhD, both participate in the U.S. working group that helps to produce the report and highlight climate-driven public health challenges. Dr. Arora and Dr. Ernst will also host a climate workshop later this month!
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$6M Grant Will Support Research on Climate Change Adaptation for Southwest Communities
The new funding for the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) program will include research on climate challenges to human health with MEZCOPH faculty Heidi Brown, PhD, MPH, and Stephanie Russo Carroll, DrPH, MPH, as part of the research team.
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COVID-19 can interfere with your period in many ways. Here's how. |
Scientists are still figuring out how many women have seen their menstrual cycles change from COVID-19 infection and the vaccines, but it’s clear the numbers are substantial. Assistant professor Leslie V. Farland, ScD, MSc, comments on the topic. |
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A wonky Arizona ballot measure could unlock a new path to easing medical debt |
Arizona Proposition 209 would put a cap on the interest rates that can be charged for medical debt. Some policy experts say it addresses some of the crueler debt collection practices and should help to relieve the burden of medical debt. Associate professor Joe Gerald, MD, PhD, comments. |
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Multilingual Curriculum Project translates university courses into other languages |
Gabriela Valdez, PhD, used the new translation services from the UArizona’s Multilingual Curriculum Project to translate content for a community health education course into Spanish as a pilot project for the UArizona’s National Center for Interpretation. |
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APHA 2022 Annual Meeting and Expo
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Join us for APHA’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo and 150th anniversary celebration. The Meeting blends the legacy of APHA with innovative and exciting opportunities to help you reach your goals. Engage with public health experts, collaborate with other advocates and grow professionally. This year's theme is 150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the Path Toward Equity.
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November 6 – 9, 2022 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
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To learn more and register, visit apha.org/Events-and-Meetings/Annual.
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MEZCOPH will host an alumni engagement event during the APHA meeting on the evening of Monday, November 7, 2022.
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MEZCOPH Arizona Alumni Reception at APHA
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Network with MEZCOPH alumni, faculty, students, staff and other guests while overlooking the Boston Harbor! We will highlight updates at the college, and we’ll have a “Tell Your Story” video booth where guests can share their public health story from MEZCOPH and their career. Enjoy lobster rolls, pasta, and a variety of other appetizers.
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Join us for the University of Arizona APHA Reception at Del Frisco's Double Steakhouse on Monday, November 7 from 5:30-7:30pm.
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Register for our APHA reception today at bit.ly/mezcoph-APHA
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College Wide Seminar: Effecting Policy Change in Maternal Child Health
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Hosted by the department of Health Promotion Sciences, this presentation will cover the existing WHO policy framework for maternal child health, how policy is updated and current evidence. Guest speaker Dr. Jeffery Klausner will describe new research that informs policy and how that research is put into public health practice, as well as topic areas in infectious diseases, HIV and sexual/reproductive health.
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November 9, 2022. 12:00pm to 12:50pm in Drachman Hall B111 and on Zoom. Check your email for the link.
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Contact Terri Mahaffey for more info: tmahaffey@arizona.edu
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Exploring Solutions: Homelessness, Mental Health, and Substance Use – A Panel Discussion
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We have rescheduled our community town hall event for Wednesday, November 9, 2022. We invite you to join us for this interactive discussion on how to solve the challenges associated with mental health, substance use, and homelessness. After a brief presentation on resources and best practices from our panelists who work on these related challenges, participants will engage in solutions-based discussions to develop priorities for catalyzing community solutions. Those solutions will feed into and build towards the Statewide Town Hall and final recommendations report.
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This free event will take place on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, from 3:30 to 6pm, in the Forum in the Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB) on the Health Sciences campus. Dinner and refreshments will be provided, and students are especially encouraged to attend.
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Register today at bit.ly/mezcoph-townhall
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Networking in the New Normal
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Join the Public Health Student Alliance of Phoenix for a career preparation event with Veronica Aguilar, Vice President of Recruitment at Teach for America. We will be discussing networking in this new digital sphere, LinkedIn, and other topics to help students/alumni feel prepared for the next steps in their careers.
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November 9, 2022. 5:30pm to 7:00pm at Phoenix Bioscience Core and on Zoom
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Register today at forms.gle/jK2e6pif44jQvfc86
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Climate Symposium – Health and Environmental Change: Pushing Research Boundaries Through Arizona-France Cooperation |
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Global Health Speaker Series Presenting: Lisa Labita Woodson, MPH
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3rd Year PhD candidate, Lisa Labita Woodson, MPH will present preliminary findings of her research in the Amazon Basin as a Fulbright Fogarty Fellow and how it has informed her next research which aims to develop and test the feasibility of an intervention using community health workers and adolescent peer networks within these communities.
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November 17, 2022. 12:00pm to 1:00pm on Zoom
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Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) Program Experiences Presentation Featuring Dr. Amr Soliman and MEZCOPH Alumni |
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Workshop – COVID, Climate Change & Preparedness: Lessons Learned
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Please join us for the “COVID, Climate Change, and Preparedness: Lessons Learned Workshop.” Social and environmental systems are threatened by multiple stressors, including climate change. This workshop will address lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be applied in managing future climate-driven events. Join public health and health practitioners and climate experts in identifying strategies and solutions to inform public health, climate preparedness, and resilience.
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November 18, 2022. 9am to 5pm. Registration Required
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Register here: uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/
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This event is co-hosted by the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, and the Aegis Consortium.
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College Wide Seminar: Firefighter Health: Exposures, Epigenetics, and Cancer RiskEvent Title or Label with Link
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Firefighters are at increased risk for multiple adverse health outcomes including cancers. The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently classified occupational exposure as a firefighter as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1). In this presentation, Dr. Goodrich will describe her research conducted as part of the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS). The FFCCS team reported links between firefighting exposures accelerated epigenetic age. Implications for firefighter health will be discussed.
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Presenter: Jaclyn Goodrich, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health
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Wednesday December 7, 2022. 12:00 –12:50pm, Drachman Hall B111 and Zoom
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Info: Karen O’Shaughnessy, koshaughnessy@arizona.edu
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MEZCOPH December Convocation
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Convocation Ceremony for MEZCOPH December graduates and their families.
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Saturday, December 17, 7pm. Centennial Hall.
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WAYS TO GIVE
Support Our COVID-19 Research and Shape the Future
All the funds raised for the “Dean’s Fund for Excellence” go to COVID-19 research. You can support this targeted fund by going to our UA Foundation page and making a contribution.
Discover more ways to give to the College of Public Health by visiting
publichealth.arizona.edu/support/ways-to-give |
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