APHA Webinar Series: What Healthy Communities Need from their Transportation Networks

Public health and transportation professionals have the opportunity to participate in a new, four-part webinar series in 2011 that covers how transportation systems impact health in diverse communities across the nation.
Join us for this series that explores the intersections between health and transportation, highlights innovative state and local programs that leverage opportunities in transportation that benefit health, and explains what the future may hold for the federal surface transportation authorization.


For more information and specific programs and dates visit the Loyola MPH website@www.mph.lumc.edu

Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds December 16 11 am

Thursday, December 16th at 11 am Maguire Bldg room 3340 we are pleased to have Basmattee Boodram, PhD, MPH who will present:

"Hepatitis C virus Infection Among Young Injection Drug Users".

December 2nd Grand Rounds canceled

We are sorry but grand rounds for December 2nd have been cancelled. Grand rounds will resume December 9 at 11 am at the Maguire Bldg room 3340. Alex Chang will present his ongoing work "Lifestyle and Chronic Kidney Disease."
All MPH and CRME students are welcome.

Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds

December 2nd Dr. Holly Kramer will present "Obesity and Mortality in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease."

December 9th we will have Dr. Alex Chang will present his ongoing work "Lifestyle and Chronic Kidney Disease" as part of the Works in Progress series.

Grand rounds are held at 11 AM in the Maguire Bldg 3rd floor room 3340

Health Disparities

At Loyola, our overall mission is to yield social justice in the distrubtion and access to healthcare in the United States. There are multiple ways to address health disparities including advovocacy, research and policy. During the 2009 Loyola University Chicago Moviefest, some Loyola students put together a video on being homeless in Chicago. The link is posted below and is a great example of advocacy for social justice. The Loyola University Chicago MPH Program is multi-disciplinary and includes faculty from the Medical and Law schools, School of Social Work and Sociology, and the Bioethics Institute. By brining multiple disciplines together, our overall goal is to provide students the required skillset to address health and social disparities and move social justice forward. We applaud the students who created the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMMosVNmEo

Spring admission deadline quickly approaching

Admissions for the Spring Semester for the MPH Program will be accepted thru November 15. For any questions regarding the admissions process or requirements, please contact Dr. Kramer at hkramer@lumc.edu

Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday November 11 Drs Richard Cooper (Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine) and Dr. Bamidele Tayo will discuss their ongoing work in genetic epidemiology. Talk will start at 11 AM and will be held in the Maguire Bldg room 3340.

Research at Loyola

Congratulations to the more than 200 presenters at the Loyola Medical Center 2010 St. Albert's Day Celebration of Research. Special mention goes to several Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology students: Dr. Todd Baker, Dr. Alex Chang, Dr. Olga Ramm and Dr. Jennifer Stanley. Special note to Anne-Marie Bertino (2nd year medical student) who had an excellent poster on cost-effectiveness of kidney transplantation. The event was attended by faculty, staff, medical students, residents, fellows, PhD candidates, master's students and friends. The Department of Preventive Medicine applauds the presenters and big thanks to Dr. Linda Brubaker and Dr. Fred Wezeman for making this event such a huge success this year. Great work Dr. Dugas (in picture)!

Loyola fellowship

Community and Global Stewards Fellowship (CSF)

Announcement

The Graduate School announces the 2010-2011 Community and Global Stewards Fellowship competition. Community Stewards are encouraged to engage social issues and challenges generously and to embrace a scholarship of engagement that connects our intellectual resources to the pressing social, civic, and ethical problems in our communities and the world. As community stewards, LUC graduate students will be provided with opportunities to demonstrate how their graduate study and research connects with a larger public by partnering with community groups, grassroots organizations, local businesses, and industries to help address societal needs.


Fellowships of $2000-$3000 each will be awarded on a competitive basis to outstanding students who have a demonstrated record of academic excellence and community service. The awards can be used for a variety of purposes, including internship and community-based research support. Criteria for eligibility for a CSF include:



1. Students enrolled in a program housed in the Graduate School.

2. Master’s students who have completed one semester of coursework or doctoral students who have completed one semester of coursework are eligible.

3. Applicants must not be funded from other university sources or previously held a CSF award.

4. A minimum GPA of 3.3.

5. A letter of application in which applicants must demonstrate that their internship, field experience, practicum, or research represents an integral part of their degree requirement.

6. A one-page statement that demonstrates how their internship, field experience, practicum, or research reflects community or global stewardship.

7. A letter of support from the applicant’s Graduate Program Director, sent directly to the Graduate School by the application deadline.

eApplication Deadline: Applicants: please submit all application materials (parts 5 and 6) electronically to Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin (pmooney@luc.edu), Associate Dean of the Graduate School, by November 15, 2010. Graduate Program Directors: please submit your letter of support (part 7) electronically to Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin by November 15, 2010 as well.

Congratulations Dr. Hiroki Ito

Dr. Ito, a recent graduate of the Master's Program in Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology has been invited to present the finidngs from his master's thesis research project at the American Heart Association Meeting held in Chicago this November. His thesis is on the addition of serum creatinine or cystatin C to the Framingham risk score and prediction of cardiovascular events. We know you will give a great talk Dr. Ito!

Grand Rounds

October 28 11 AM Maguire Bldg room 3340
Professor Dru Bhattacharya will present "Update on Health Care Legislation: 6 Months Later"

November 4 11 AM Maguire Bldg Room 3340 (note room change)
Dr. Amy Luke will present "Preliminary Data from METS Study"

Congratulations Professor Dru!

Congratulations to Professor Dru Bhattacharya on publication of his extensive manuscript entitled "The Perils of Simultaneous Adjudication and Consultation: Using the Optional Protocol to CEDAW to Secure Women's Health." It was recently published in the Women's Rights Law Reporter - Rugers School of Law. Hear Professor Bhattacharya discuss the updates on the new health care legislation Thursday October 28 at 11 AM in the Maguire Bldg room 3347.

MPH Grand Rounds: Department of Preventive Medicine Conference Series

Thursday, October 21 11 AM Maguire Bldg Room 3347
Dr. Amy Luke will present "Environmental exposure to bisphenol A in countries at different levels of economic development: effects on human health and aquatic life." Learn how the widespread use of plastic may influence health outcomes and her ongoing research with Dr. Nancy Tuchman on the health and environmental effects of bisphenol A.

Thursday, October 28 11 AM Maguire bldg Room 3347
If you missed Professor Bhattacharya's medicine grand rounds presentation on the health care legislation, you have another chance. Dru Bhattacharya will present "The Health Care Legislation: A 6 Month Update October 28 for the Department of Preventive Medicine." His talk will include discussion of the ongoing lawsuit in Florida and the potential consequences in addition to other ongoing debates.

Follow-up on Severability, and the Primary Care Workforce

Note to readers: Many thanks to everyone who attended the session, and special thanks to my colleagues who asked me to probe a little deeper on issues related to severability, primary care, electronic health records, and Medicaid. Below, I revisit the issues of severability with an eye towards December’s oral argument in Florida, and why I continue to emphasize the act’s impact on nurses, rather than physicians, with respect to the workforce shortages, notwithstanding the media hype surrounding general education/training grants for PCPs. In the interests of space, I’ll upload my thoughts on Medicaid and Electronic Health Records in a future post, and welcome any additional issues you would like me to raise or explore as we figure out what healthcare reform is all about.

Severability’s Catch-22

This may be more complicated than I assumed, so I will ask the natural follow-up to the easy question. Is there an explicit severability provision in the act? No. But does it matter? That’s where it gets very tricky. Let’s assume the mandate is declared unconstitutional and the issue appears before the Supreme Court, along with a severability issue that threatens the validity of the entire act. A few years ago, in the Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Booker, Justice Thomas noted that the Court had a “longstanding presumption of the severability of unconstitutional applications of statutory provisions.” But “normally,” he stated that a court would first declare a provision (e.g., individual mandate) as unconstitutional, and then determine whether the remainder of the act could be left standing. So here, presuming the individual mandate is declared unconstitutional, proponents will have to argue that the otherwise regulated tax-payer (who escaped the individual mandate) be regulated to ensure that the provisions that are constitutional remain effective. That’s the argument proponents will have to make to ensure the act isn’t invalidated owing to the absence of a severability clause. Opponents, ironically, will have to claim that the individual mandate isn’t necessary to ensure implementation of those other provisions—but wouldn’t that defeat the severability argument to begin with? It seems like a catch-22, and I don’t envy the Court’s position in sorting this out. The easy approach would be to have an about face on the notion of presumptive severability at the outset; but this may be more influenced by political forces than legal doctrine.

Primary Care – on physician shortages, and paradigm shifts

I shrugged the supposed fix on the primary care physician shortage, and emphasized elements that focused on nursing, so let me put this in perspective. The physician incentives are anything but coherent, and any optimism may be offset by the mix of “fixes” and dis-incentives that currently plague the system. Let’s start off with the personnel problem, which we can agree is somewhere (on the low end) between 35,000-50,000 PCPs over the next 10-15 years. The act posits two solutions: a Medicare reimbursement hike of 10% for PCPs, and the education and training grants for future physicians, nurses, physician assistants, etc. On salaries: even assuming that medical students choose a specialty based on salaries, 110% of current earnings (~$190,000 average) are not going to be a driving factor compared to specialty salaries at 150-200+% of those earnings, especially given the exorbitant student debt (~$157,000 average) upon graduation. A related issue is Medicare reimbursement, since the SGR has become a perpetual gadfly on the wall. The act didn’t do anything to fix this. When the June 1, 2010 deadline was looming this past summer, Congress continued its long-standing tradition of punting the Medicare cuts, fearing the mad dash of physicians opting out of treating patients (Dec 1, 2010 is the next go around). The method for keeping spending in line with the growth of the GDP hasn’t been pretty. (Notably, the payments are not based on actual costs of practice.) The CBO further estimated the cuts to cost around $276 billion over the next decade. An AMA survey this past summer also cited around 68% of physicians indicating that they would (be forced to) limit the number of beneficiaries they care for. Against this backdrop, I don’t think that an additional 500 PCPs with 10% Medicare reimbursement pay is going to significantly alter student choice of specialties, offset attendant practice costs, or tempter the increased demand that will accompany (near) universal coverage, and particularly the growing population of Medicare and Medicaid patients. So does the act do something to fix the PCP shortage? I think the contribution is too small to be taken seriously, at best. My two cents: lessen the bureaucratic red tape, and restore more control to the physicians instead of arbitrarily manipulating reimbursement rates and setting elusive staffing goals.

So why emphasize the support for nursing? Consider the context. The act will provide support for 600 primary care nurse practitioners and midwives, and 900 advanced practice nurses, who will operate nurse manage health clinics (NMHC). Notably, it also provides demonstration grants for NMHCs so NPs can serve as primary care providers in FQHCs and NMHCs, and work under a model of primary care consistent with the IOM’s principles and the needs of vulnerable populations. Additionally, certified nurse midwives will now be reimbursed for 100% for services (i.e. on par with physicians performance), in contrast to the prior rate set at 65%. The 10% incentive mentioned above also applies to the NPs, and like their physician counterparts, will also enjoy the number of training and education related support. So based on these developments, I think it’s fair to say that we’re seeing a significant shift in how primary care is being delivered, and nurses are going to be a playing a central role in that.


-Dru

Loyola Doctor Talks about 2010-11 Flu Season

Work in Progress Series

On October 7, Dr.s Holly Kramer and Ramon Durazo will present their ongoing work on vitamin D and mortality among adults with kidney disease. They will discuss the pros/cons of analyzing a continuous variable as continuous vs. categories and how do associations differ when using hazard ratios vs. incidence rate ratios. Seminar will start at 11 AM and will be held in the Maguire Building room 3347.

Can Policy Abrogate Obesity Trends?

Requiring use of seatbelts, prohibition of smoking in public places and advocating helmet use in children are examples of policies which substantially improved measures of public health e.g. auto accidents, cancer rates, and head injuries. Numerous policies have been implemented to reverse trends in obesity among children and adolescents but the overwhelming majority of policies have shown little to no effect. In fact, trends in soft drink consumption have shown an increase among adolescents over the past decade. What interventions work to reduce obesity among children and adolescents and what are the theories behind these interventions? Dr. Dan Taber from the Univeristy of Illinois visited the Loyola Department of Preventive Medicine this week and discussed these issues with the Loyola online MPH Program faculty. During his talk he discussed policy changes implemented during years 2000-2006 and their estimated effects on soft drink consumption and adiposity among adolescents in 2007. Staes which implemented policy changes such as banning the sale of processed foods and the sale of soft drinks in vending machines in schools or similar policies did show an effect on both soda consumption and adiposity in 2007 albeit effects were small. Policy effects on soda consumption were actually strongest in African-American boys. His research was not able to track individual changes but rather looked at the population distribution within the year 2007. Soft drink consumption is a policy target area for addressing the obesity epidemic. Suggested policies have included the banning of soft drinks in schools, taxing soda and warning labels. However, there are few data which demonstrate that such policies would have a substantial public health effect, especially among adolescents. What is known is that one particular method to abrogate obesity will not suffice. The problem is so complex that multiple policies, interventions and societal attitudes all need to interact effectively to impact the most important public health problem the U.S. is facing.

Public Health Grand Rounds

On Septmeber 30 at 11 am Dan Taber from the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy will present "State policies targeting junk food in schools: racial/ethnic differences in the effect of policy change on soda consumption. Grand rounds will be held in the Maguire Bldg, 3rd floor room 3347 (Pediatric conference room).

Congratulations Dr. Obadah Al Chekakie!

Dr. Obadah Al Checkakie is a recent graduate of the Loyola Master's degree program in Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology which he completed during his cardiology fellowship. The skills he obtained through the program allowed him to complete several research projects, including the manuscript entitled "Pericardial fat is independently associated with human atrial fibrillation" which was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. We wish him success with all future endeavors and hope he keeps in touch! Read his recent publication at: http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/784

Dru Bhattacharya to Present at Medicine Grand Rounds October 5

Medicine Grand Rounds Tobin Hall Stritch School of Medicine 1st floor October 5 12 PM Dru Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor Public Health Program will present: "Healthcare Reform 6 Months Later: Updates and Developments" Public Health Students Welcome!

New Opportunity for Public Health Students

The South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) Program of the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio invites medical and public health students, PAs, MD/MPH students and health care professionals to participate in a memorable 4-week training experience at the US-Mexico Border. Curriculum includes environmental medicine, curanderismo, folk healing, environmental house calls, hiking with an herbalist, water sampling in the Rio Grande, and visits to colonias. The STEER Program may satisfy the practicum requirements for the Loyola MPH Program. Be sure to discuss with the Program Director before enrolling. Housing for visiting students is $600 for the month. Students are responsible for their own travel to/from Laredo or Harlingen, meals, personal daily expenses and after-hours transportation and activities. STEER offers training in two locations along the U.S.-Mexico Border, Laredo and Harlingen, Texas. See the website http://steer.uthscsa.edu for information and application, or contact them directly at steer@uthscsa.edu.

Department of Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds

September 30 11 AM Dan Taber from the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy will discuss social networks and its application to health The conference will be in room 3347 Maguire bldg. All Public Health students are encouraged to attend.

Phosphorous and Health

On September 9, Dr. Holly Kramer presented a grand rounds presentation for the Loyola Department of Preventive Medicine which focused on inorganic phosphorous and its potential effects on health. Inorganic phosphorous simply refers to phosphorous which is added to processed foods as a preservative. For example, coke has 40 mg of inorganic phosphorous in every 12 ounce serving. A typical serving is 20 ounces which is almost 80 mg of phosphorous, or approximately 10% of the daily recommended allowance of phosphorous. Previous research which utilized food frequency questionnaires from a random sample of the U.S. population showed that phosphorous intake is increasing while calcium intake is decreasing. This is important because it is recommended that adults consume as much calcium as phosphorous (1:1 ratio). In infants, calcium intake should be higher than phosphorous. Prolonged and high phosphorous intake may increase levels of fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23), a protein which leads to increased urine excretion of phosphorous and reduced levels of active forms of vitamin d. In adults with severe kidney disease, high levels of FGF-23 are associated with increased mortality. Certainly as the consumption of processed foods continues to rise, more research is needed to determine the health effects of increased intake of inorganic phosphorous, especially among adults with normal kidney function. The fact that phosphorous intake influences the health of individuals with kidney disease has substantial policy implications. Currently, food suppliers are not required to indicate the amount of phosphorous in foods via food labels. Over 10 million adults have kidney disease in the U.S. and information on phosphorous in foods is important for their health.

Congratulations Neil Brysiewicz

Neil Brysiewicz presented his Master's thesis "Spatial resolution of automated pacempa matching in patients with ventricular tachycardia." Neil is now with the Yale New Haven hospital electrophysiology division and is excited to have completed his Master's degree in Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology from Loyola University Chicago. Neil's work focused on the correlation of automated matching electrocardiograms captured during ventricular tachycardia with pacempping. These measures are used to identify the area that should be ablated for treatment of ventricular tachycardia. We congratulate him on this work and we look forward to seeing his manuscript published!

Applications Accepted for Spring Semester

The Loyola University Chicago MPH Program is now accepting applications for the Spring semester. Application deadline for the Spring semester is November 15. Contact Dr. Holly Kramer at hkramer@lumc.edu for additional information or to request an information packet.

Congratulations Zheng Yu

Congratulations Zheng Yu on publication of her manuscript entitled "Association of Carotid Intima Media Thickness (CIMT) with Progression of Urine Albumin/Creatinine Ratios in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis." Dr. Yu is a recent graduate of the Masters Program in Clinical Research Methods at Loyola University Chicago. Her manuscript will be published in an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Kidney Disease. Dr. Yu created a new method to analyze changes in urine albumin excretion, a marker of kidney damage. With this method, she demonstrated a signficant association between a measure of atherosclerosis and progression of urine albumin excretion. Her study utilized data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, a large cohort of adults without baseline clincial cardiovascular disease. This research was Dr. Yu's master's thesis.

Welcome New Students

The Loyola MPH Program welcomes our new students. The majority of courses start August 30 and class capacity fills quickly. If you have not already registered for courses for the Fall semester, contact your Program Director ASAP to get registered. New courses have been added this Fall semester.

Orientation Session for New Students

The Orientation Session for incoming MPH students for the Fall 2010 semester will be held August 7 from 9 AM to 12:30 PM at the Stritch School of Medicine Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. For additional information or questions, email Dr. Holly Kramer at hkramer@lumc.edu

Congratulations Dr. Lara Dugas

As part of her Masters of Science degree in Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology requirements, Dr. Lara Dugas presented her Master's thesis entitled "Adiposity is not equal in a multi-racial/ethnic adolescent population: NHANES 1999-2004" to the Loyola Department of Preventive Medicine. Her mentor, Dr. Amy Luke, was there to support her! During her thesis work, Dr. Dugas leanred the pros/cons of modeling with a fractured polynomial approach. We applaud her work and look forward to reading her published work.

Barbara Koenig, PhD to Speak at Grand Rounds

Barbara Koenig, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Mayo Clinic
Topic: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing and Personalized Medicine
July 6, 2010, 10:00 - 11:00am
SSOM Room 170

The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy is delighted to announce that Barbara Koenig, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Ethics at Mayo Clinic will offer a special lecture on Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Genetic Testing and Personalized Medicine. Dr. Koenig and colleagues have conducted early research in this area with Executive Health Patients and their physicians at Mayo. They also worked in collaboration with Navigenics, a DTC genetic testing company. Please join us for this unique opportunity to engage with Dr. Koenig and this rapidly changing field.

Barbara A. Koenig, Ph.D., an anthropologist who studies contemporary biomedicine, is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Faculty Associate at the Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota. Previously, she served as Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Ethics, West Coast Research Coordinator for The Hastings Center, and was a member of the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her undergraduate degrees in history, magna cum laude, and nursing, with distinction, from the University of Minnesota. Her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology was awarded by the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco joint program.

Koenig is one of a small number of anthropologists who works within the interdisciplinary field of bioethics. She has pioneered the use of empirical social science methods in interdisciplinary bioethics research. Her methodological expertise is in the design of research using multiple methods (qualitative and quantitative) and integrating empirical research findings with normative ethical analysis, thus informing the development of health policy and bioethics practices.

Loyola MPH Program to offer a new course in Health Policy:

This Fall, Loyola will offer an exciting and new course which intersects policy with practice. Dhru Bhattacharya, JD, MPH will be the primary instructor for our new course entitled Public Health Policy: Concepts and Practice.

Students will be provided the framework to approach policy issues, and develop position papers. Perspectives will be drawn from epidemiology, law, medicine and social sciences to engage and examine the policy making process. At the end of the course, students will articulate a particular policy position and advocate for or against a particular intervention. Students will become cognizant of the critical need to develop materials/message specific to their audience.

Congratulations to Dr. Bhattacharya for his commentary published in this weeks issue of JAMA.  He discusses the complexity of defining a public health legal standard of care during emergencies. 

Loyola Online MPH is now on Facebook

Come join in for news and discussion of the Loyola MPH Program

 Loyola MPH Program on Facebook

Public Health Grand Rounds in May

May 7: Familial and Community Factors that Influence Obesity in African-Americans Families: Implications for Neighborhood Interventions and Health Policy

May 19: (5:00-6:00p.m. Stritch School of Medicine, Room 360): Perspective on Adolescent Obesity Students:

All posted MPH lectures can be viewed online 3 hours after the end of the lecture. A valid student login and password is required.

Loyola Epidemiology Track MPH

Details of the new epidemiology track have been posted to the Loyola MPH website. This new Masters of Public Health track will commence this fall. Web details include a track overview, course descriptions, and a synopsis of the epidemiology track capstone project.

 You can view the epidemiology track information at: http://www.mph.lumc.edu/epidem.html

Way to Go!

The MPH Program applauds the efforts of the Loyola University Chicago Center for Urban and Environmental Research and Policy to address the environmental, social, human rights, human health and economic issues associated with the bottled water industry. A big thanks to Nancy Tuchman. Check out this 7 minute Annie Dillard clip entitled “story of bottled water

Other videos of interest:
films Tapped
Blue Gold
These two films will be screened at Loyola University Chicago during the month of April

Change to April 21st lecture Series

“Health Care Reform: Consequences and Challenges for Health Care and Public Health”

Date: April 21, 2010
Time: Noon – 1:00pm
Location: SSOM Leischner Hall (390)

The recent passage of landmark legislation on healthcare reform has raised numerous questions for healthcare and public health practitioners. The Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology invites you to attend a panel discussion featuring speakers from the Medical School, Law School, and Nursing School to discuss the consequences and challenges for the future.

Panel members include:
Paul Whelton, MD, Dhru Bhattacharya, JD, MPH, John Blum, JD, Mark Kuczewski, PhD, Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD and Mary Dominiak, RN, MBA

New Professor for MPH Program

Dhrubajyoti (Dru) Bhattacharya, J.D., M.P.H., LL.M., is an assistant professor of health policy in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology and a visiting professor of law at the School of Law.  His research and teaching explores the intersection of public health, law, and health policy.  He particularly focuses on global health, infectious diseases, women’s health, and health education, culture, and behavior.  He is available to assist researchers in initiating or enhancing public health projects to incorporate a health policy and/or legal component to an investigation. Professor Bhattacharya is also interested in assisting students to identify opportunities to conduct and publish original research.

Thank you to Dr. Esposito for his Grand Rounds Presentation on Gun Violence.  Audience members participated in an rigorous debate regarding methods to reduce gun violence.  For students who missed the presentation, Dr. Esposito's talk can be viewed thru our internet site. 

Paul Tough to speak at Loyola

Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine contributor and author of "Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America"

REPLICATING THE HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE MODEL IN CHICAGO

What would it take?

That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking a decade ago. What would it take to change the lives of poor children — not one by one, but in big numbers? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone (“HCZ”), a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America.

President Barack Obama has called for the creation of “Promise Neighborhoods” nationwide, based on the HCZ model. Learn more about the HCZ, and also hear from an interdisciplinary group of Chicago experts about “what it would take” to replicate the program in Chicago.

sponsored by: The School of Law Street Law Program, the Center for the Human Rights of Children, the Civitas Child Law Center, the School of Education, the Psychology Department, the Masters of Public Health Program, the School of Social Work, and the Center for Urban Research and Learning

Loyola School of Law 25 E. Pearson 10th floor Chicago, IL

February 25, 2010  3:30-5:00 pm

Registration begins at 3pm.

Light refreshments will be provided. 

This event is open and free to the public.

Please RSVP to agikas@luc.edu

as space is limited.  

Public Grand Rounds Spring Schedule

The Loyola Online MPH Program has released its spring schedule for on-campus lectures. All lectures can be viewed in video format approximatly 3 hours after the completion of the seminar online at this address. You must have a Loyola access ID to view these videos.

Public grand Round Lectures
Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:00pm
Stritch School of Medicine, Room 360

January 20, 2010
“Expedited Partner Therapy: Implementation Challenges for
Public Health Advocates and Healthcare Providers”
Dhrubajoti Bhattacharya, JD, MPH, LLM
Department of Medical Humanities
Southern Illinois University

February 17, 2010
“Gun Violence, A Social Problem or Public Health Disease?”
Thomas J. Esposito MD, MPH, FACS
Surgery, Trauma, Surgical Critical care
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

March 17, 2010
“Emergency Medical Services in Illinois”
Evelyn Lyons, RN MPH
Illinois Department of Public Health

April 21, 2010
“Familial and Community Factors that Influence Obesity
in African-Americans Families Implications for
Neighborhood Interventions and Health Policy”
Angela Odoms, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition
University of Illinois at Chicago

May 19, 2010
“Perspective on Adolescent Obesity”
Joanne Kouba, PhD, RD, LDN
Loyola University Chicago School of Nursing

For more information about the Loyola Online MPH program visit our website

New MPH concentration at Loyola

The Loyola University Chicago MPH Program will launch a new concentration in Public Health this Fall. This concentration will focus on research methods and epidemiology. Coursework will include traditional evening courses (generally Mondays from 6-9 pm) and online courses. Thus, both traditional and non-traditional students can complete the hybrid program. Research methods courses include biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trials, meta-analysis and demography. The majority of the research methods courses will be taught at the Maywood campus. Further details will be launched on the web-site soon.

Deadline for Fall Semester 2010

The deadline for the fall semester enrollment is June 15, 2010.

for more information go to the Loyola Online MPH Program website

Dr. Kramers research in Type II Diabetes

Doctor Holly Kramer, Director for the Loyola Online MPH Program, presents an overview of some of the new research being done at Loyola University Chicago in regard to the correlation between Type 2 diabetes and obesity. 




Loyola University Chicago is a leader in the field of public health research. For more information about the Masters of Public Health Degree at Loyola University Chicago visit: www.mph.lumc.edu  

The Online Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree from Loyola University Chicago provides the best credentials for individuals who desire leadership careers in the diverse and growing field of public health.



for more information go to our web site: www.mph.lumc.edu