Stritch School of Medicine Genetics Conference

 Friday, Feb. 4th, the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine will hold a Genetics Conference.  The conference features two morning presentations and then a screening of the film "In the Family" with the filmmaker Joanna Rudnick. "In the Family" is a powerful documentary chronicling Joanna's exploration of BRCA (a genetic variant for breast cancer) in her family.   For more information, see the link:  http://bioethics.lumc.edu/news_and_events/IssuesEthics_2011.html

The discounted student fee is $25 which includes lunch. Please contact Robbin Hiller for registration: rhiller@lumc.edu

Public Health Grand Rounds February 24 11 AM

The Loyola Public Health Program is pleased to present Dr. Justin Harbison as a guest speaker on February 24 to discuss water quality and health.  Dr. Harbison is presently an adjunct faculty member for Loyola University’s Biology Department.   He previously served as a Public Health Biologist for the State of California’s Vector-borne Disease Section and completed a Ph.D. in Public Health from UCLA. He also holds a Master’s degree in Entomology and Nematology from the University of Florida.  He has experience in monitoring animal and arthropod vectors of medically important diseases including plague, hantavirus, and malaria and is particularly interested in the association between water quality efforts and vector mosquitoes.  He recently published in Stormwater magazine..see link.  http://www.stormh2o.com/september-2010/fight-stormwater-mosquitoes.aspx

Safe water is a tenet of health.  We hope you can hear Dr. Harbison discuss water quality and health at the February 24th Public Health Grand Rounds.

Grand rounds are held in the Maguire building room 3347 at 11 am.

APHA Public Health Fellowship in Government

The American Public Health Association (APHA) announces a call for applications for the APHA Public Health Fellowship in Government.  APHA is looking for candidates with strong public health credentials who wish to spend one year in Washington, D.C. working in a CONGRESSIONAL office on legislative and policy issues such as health, the environment or other public health concerns. The fellow will have the opportunity to see first-hand how public policy impacts public health and to offer their public health expertise to policymakers. The fellowship will begin in January 2012 and continue through December 2012. Applications and additional information are available through the links below. The application, including CV and three letters of recommendation, are due to APHA by April 4, 2011. A committee of APHA leaders, former Fellows, and policy experts will review the applications and select the finalists. All candidates must be APHA members, have a Masters degree or a doctorate in public health or a related discipline. In addition, all candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, have five years or more of professional experience in a public health setting. Internships, graduate assistantships and residencies do not count toward the five year requirement.

For more information, check out the APHA web-site http://www.apha.org/

Loyola Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds

January 27 at 11 AM, two of our MPH students will present their ongoing work on bisphenol-A and health across the epidemiological transition.  Vytas Karalius and Nallely Mora will discuss the navigation  of roads/rivers in Jamaica and Ghana, plastic use, fun foods and share pictures and stories.  This will be the first time MPH students give grand rounds and it will definitely be interesting.  We are looking forward to it.
Grand rounds is held every Thursday at 11 am in the Maguire bldg room 3340.

Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday January 20 at 11 am in the Maguire Bldg room 3340, Dr. Richard Cooper, Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, will present:
"Hypertension in Low Income Countries"
Dr. Cooper is internationally recognized as a leading expert in hypertension epidemiology.  For the past 30 years, Dr. Cooper has initiated and organized multi-country population surveys for cardiovascular risk including genetic and environmental factors.  Join us for a discussion on how the epidemiologic transition in developing countries is altering the public health needs.