First American Public Health Association Midyear Meeting-to be held in Chicago!

Registration is now open for the American Public Health Association's first ever Midyear Meeting. Join APHA in Chicago, IL from June 23-25, 2011 to discuss Implementing Health Reform - A Public Health Approach. This meeting will equip attendees from federal, state, local and tribal agencies and organizations with the tools needed for implementing the provisions of the Affordable Care Act and improving health outcomes in communities across the country. For a full description of the meeting visit www.apha.org/midyear.

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.