Leadership Day Spring 2015 update!

This semester's Leadership Day will be April 11th in SSOM room 460 from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm.

The Day will include two workshops focusing on:

• communication skills to promote public health messages to various stakeholders from Professor Michael Meinhardt
  
•  networking from the Career Development Center

We will also hear from Jennifer McGowan, of the UIC MidAmerica Center for Public Health Practice on the implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act in Illinois.

Finally, we are in the process of inviting MPH alumni to join us for lunch to give students the chance to meet and network with them.

RSVP to Ilze at iberzin@luc.edu

Stay tuned and see you April 11th!

Listening to Killers Seminar Streaming tomorrow at 4 pm

Join the the Civitas ChildLaw Center Weekly Coffee Talk Series tomorrow (Wednesday 3/29) at 4 pm: Listening to Killers

    Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and cultural issues and illustrating the social toxicity and unresolved trauma that drive some people to kill, Dr. Garbarino highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence.

The seminar will be streamed live at:

https://connect.luc.edu/listeningtokillers/

Integrated Public Health and Healthcare System Preparedness Call for Posters

The 2015 Planning Committee for the Integrated Public Health and Healthcare System Preparedness Summit & IPHA 74th Annual Meeting is now accepting online abstracts for Poster Sessions.
To be considered for a Poster Session, you must submit an abstract online by April 15, 2015. Topics may include, but are not limited to academic or field research, innovative demonstration/pilot projects, disaster response lessons learned, healthcare preparedness, and public-private partnerships.
Selected participants are expected to be onsite at the summit on June 17, 2015 to set up their poster and be present at their display from 8:00am-9:00am to answer questions from attendees. Attendees will vote for their favorite poster presentation and the winning author will receive an award!

For more information, visit the summit web page. 

Submit Poster Session Abstract

Spring 2015 MPH Leadership Day

 Mark your calendars! On Saturday, April 11 from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM, we will have our Semi-Annual Leadership Day Conference.

Leadership Day is offered every semester to our MPH students. This day-long  interactive event focuses on professional development.

Each Leadership Conference covers different topics, and we highly encourage you to participate in as many as you can. In general, the days are designed to expose students to topics such as job seeking

strategies, resume/CV writing and presentation, professional communication, public speaking and scientific writing. In addition, these are an opportunity to meet public health professionals and to learn about their practices, and how they address important issues in the field.

For this semester's Leadership Day, we will have workshops in networking and communication skills and a presentation by Jennifer McGowan, a policy analyst who served in the Illinois Governor's Office for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the state.

Come join us! Lunch will be served.

Please RSVP to iberzin@lumc.edu no later than  Monday, April 6th.

Help beautify Maywood!

Please join Bioethics, CCGH and Ministry for a community wide service event  on Saturday, April 18^th. The Maywood Environmental and Beautification Commission needs our help picking up litter, debris, and clutter across 4 sections of Maywood. We encourage you to consider joining Team Loyola for this important neighborhood service. Here are the details:

 

Event Date:                Saturday, April 18, 2015

Event Check-In:          Reuse Depot

50 West Madison

Maywood, IL 60153

Time:                           9:00am -1:00pm (*lunch and event T-shirts will be provided)

Sign up:                      Ministry’s door, SSOM Rm. 250

 

If you have any questions, you can contact Dr. Lena Hatchett (lhatchett@luc.edu), Ginny McCarthy (vmccarthy@luc.edu), or Pauline Villapando (pvillapando@luc.edu)