SPHHS Event Listings

The Center for Public Policy and Administration will host a book launch party to celebrate the publication of Participatory Visual and Digital Methods by Aline Gubrium, Assistant Professor of Community Health Education and Krista Harper, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Public Policy.

In the book Gubrium and Harper describe how to conduct an ethnographic study that engages subjects by using visual and digital methodologies. This new volume shows how technologies such as PhotoVoice, digital storytelling, geographic information systems, digital archives, and film and video can dramatically change the traditional relationship between academic researchers and the community. Harper and Gubrium argue that by using participatory technology and methods, the research process can be more democratic, inclusive and visually appealing.

Are you interested in working or interning as a statistician in the Boston area?   Do you want to learn more about how the big data and analytics revolution is central to improving the US healthcare system?  Then, this talk is for you.  

Come and join Dr. Iyue Sung, Director of Core Analytics, at Athenahealth, Watertown MA.  He manages a team of Data Analysts/Statisticians at Athenahealth, a company that provides medical billing services and electronic medical records for healthcare providers.   

Come and find out how analysts, data scientists and statisticians are doing their part. How? By mining athenahealth's massive, cloud-based database to improve physician productivity, uncover healthcare trends and influence decision making at the point of care. This company is seeking the best and brightest minds across quantitative disciplines to intern and/or to apply for its analytics and data science positions (see attached flyer).  

Dr. Sung holds a PHD in Statistics from Ohio State University and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Boston University.

Light refreshments will be served.

To reserve your spot, please email Shirley Mietlicki-Floyd, MPH Practicum Coordinator, Department of Public Health at mietlicki@umext.umass.edu.

Thank you and see you there!

David R. Williams, Ph.D. is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health in the Harvard School of Public Health and is also a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Dr. Williams is internationally recognized as a leading social scientist, enhancing the understanding of the complex ways in which race, racial discrimination, socioeconomic status and religious involvement can affect physical and mental health. The Everyday Discrimination scale that he developed is currently one of the most widely used measures. He is the author of more than 300 scholarly papers in scientific journals and edited collections and has played a visible, national leadership role in raising awareness levels of the problem of health disparities.

Dr. Williams directed the South African Stress and Health Study, the first nationally representative study of the prevalence and correlates of psychiatric disorders in sub-Sahara Africa. He was also a key member of the team that conducted the National Study of American Life, the largest study of mental health disorders in the African American population in the U.S. and the first health study to include a large national sample of Blacks of Caribbean ancestry.

Free and open to the public.

More information available here.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the UMass Center for Research on Families' Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series,  the 2012-13 Clinical Psychology Diversity Speaker Series (awarded a 2012 APA CEMRRAT Implementation Grants Fund (IGF) for Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology), the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Psychology Department Research Mentoring Group Speaker Series which is supported by the UMass Amherst Center for Teaching & Faculty Development's Mutual Mentoring Initiative, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Department of Public Health in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences and the Western MA Public Health Training Center.

The UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) will be hosting a Meet and Greet session with Toby Fisher and Andrea Freeman of the Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA). Fisher is the new Director of the MPHA and Freeman is the Deputy Field Director. All SPHHS students, faculty, staff and community partners are invited to hear about current MPHA priorities including the Prevention and Wellness Trust and the Act Fresh Campaign. Come find out how you can help promote public health priorities in Massachusetts! We hope to see you there! Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.