Past Events
Nutrition Epidemiology Webinar
Where: Eastbrook Hall, room 200
When: November 2, 1:30-2:30pm
The Nutritional Epidemiology Research Interest Section are hosting the first webinar of a series of research leader webinars. This first webinar, presented by Dr. Barry M. Popkin, Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is one of a series of webinars where you will hear about personal education and research experiences of some of the most successful leaders in the field of nutritional epidemiology.
Learn what they are doing to stay on the cutting edge of nutritional epidemiology research, and get an opportunity to seek advice to help your own research efforts."
“What the Health? What Health Reform Means to YOU.”
Where: UC Auditorium.
When: Thursday, November 5 at 7:00pm
Amnesty International and The American Medical Student Association present: “What the Health? What Health Reform Means to YOU.” This informative panel discussion on the current state of health reform will feature panelists Dr. Paul Erwin, Director of the Center for Public Health, and Dr. Carole Myers, of the College of Nursing. The aim of this educational event is to help individuals of all levels of familiarity with health reform understand what is happening in Washington and how the new policies will affect them.
American Public Health Association
137th Annual Meeting & Expo
Theme: Water and Public Health - The 21st Century Challenge
Where: Philadelphia, PA
When: November 7-11, 2009
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Learn, teach, network, mentor, socialize and most of all make a difference! With more than 1,000 cutting edge scientific sessions, 700 exhibit booths of information and state-of-the-art public health products and services and career opportunities available at the Public Health CareerMart, this is a meeting you can't afford to miss.”
UTK Booth at APHA!
Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium
Infancy: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Parenting and Mothers’ Experiences
Friday, September 25, 2009
12:30 – 4:30 pm EDST
Howard Baker Center & Webcast
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
You, your staff, students, collaborators, and family members are invited to the Fall “Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium. Infancy: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Parenting and Mothers’ Experiences.” The Colloquium is offered by the University of Tennessee Public Health Nutrition Program on Friday, September 25, 2009 from 12:30 pm-4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time at the Howard Baker Center on the UT campus. The Colloquium is free, although registration is required.
This colloquium will highlight infancy and how parenting, nutrition, and physical activity relate to healthy weight gain during this first developmental stage of Bright Futures. Colloquium presentations are intended for researchers, practitioners, and family members. Presenters will be:
*Parent Panel: Mothers’ Experiences and Perspectives
*Dawn P. Coe, PhD, Assistant Professor, Exercise, Sport and Leisure Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
*Hillary Fouts, PhD, Assistant Professor, Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
*M. Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC, Academic Administrator, Department of Nutrition; and Director, Human lactation Center, University of California, Davis.
Registered Dietitians and Certified Healthy Education Specialists can receive continuing education credits. For more information and registration, please go to:
http://nutrition.utk.edu/seminars/HealthyWeightColloquium.html.
Please join us!
Public Health Colloquium - September 18, 2009
Dr. Larry Churchill, Professor of Medical Ethics at Vanderbilt, will provide a presentation on the ethics of health care reform. This will be on Friday, September 18th, at 10 a.m. in the Hodges Auditorium (UT Library). Before coming to Vanderbilt, Dr. Churchill was a colleague of Dr. Jon Oberlander at UNC/Chapel Hill. Many of you attended Dr. Oberlander’s presentation on health care reform in September of last year, and you can look forward to Dr. Churchill’s being equally engaging. Who gets included in health care reform, who gets counted out, who decides, and on what basis? Not easy questions...so make plans to attend the September Public Health Colloquium to explore the answers.
https://medschool.mc.vanderbilt.edu/facultydata/php_files/show_faculty.php?id3=10886
Click here to view the flyer:
Tennessee Public Health Association - September 2-4, 2009
Theme: "Achieving True Improvement in People's Lives"
Where: Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, Franklin, TN
http://www.tnpublichealth.org/Documents/tpha2009conference.pdf
Public Health Research Symposium - June 15-16, 2009
The combined CEM/PH Research Symposium will take place in the new Plant Biotechnology Building on the UT Institute of Agriculture campus. Attendees do *not* need to register for the symposium and attendees will be provided with free meals.
Monday June 15th, 2009 - Public Health Day
8:30- 9:00 |
Complimentary continental breakfast |
9:00 |
Keynote presentation Dr. William Harris, Sr. Scientist and Director of the Metabolism and Nutrition Research Center, Sanford Research/University of South Dakota. Dr. Harris will speak on Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease Risks. |
10:00- 11:45 |
Faculty panel - Drs. Hollie Raynor, David Bassett, and Ken Phillips Discussion of the grant-writing process and related scholarly activities (writing abstracts, writing for publication, etc.). Moderated by Dr. Jay Whelan, Head of the Department of Nutrition. |
12:00 |
Lunch presentation "The Central Melanocortin System and Energy Homeostasis" Dr. Roger Cone, Professor and Chair of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Cone is leading Vanderbilt’s efforts to establish an Obesity Research Center. |
1:30 |
Oral presentations by UT Graduate Students The five Public Health student presentations will be judged by a faculty panel, and awards will be announced at the Tuesday (16th) evening finale. |
4:00 |
Afternoon presentation Mr. Bruce Behringer, Assistant Vice President for Rural and Community Health and Community Partnerships at ETSU. Mr. Berhinger’s presentation will be on a Community-Based Participatory Research project on Cancer in Appalachia. His session will be moderated by Dr. Denise Bates. |
Tuesday June 16th, 2009
The Comparative and Experimental Medicine Symposium will include 60 presentations mostly by graduate students. For a full symposium schedule go to http://www.vet.utk.edu/research/symposium/
Unnatural Causes Film & Discussion Series -- Spring 2009
Event Information (click here)
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What connections exist between healthy bodies, health bank accounts and skin color? Explore how economic justice, racial equality and caring communities may be the best medicines of all. | |
| February 11 | When the Bough Breaks | How racism gets embedded in the body and affects birth outcomes. |
| February 25 | Becoming American | Latino immigrants arrive healthy but don't stay that way. |
| March 11 | Bad Sugar | Diabetes in two Native American communities |
| March 25 | Place Matters | Why is your street address such a good predictor of your health? |
| April 1* | Collateral Damage | Marshall Islanders are caught between the developing and industrialized worlds |
| April 15 | Not Just A Paycheck | Unemployment takes a toll in Michigan but not Sweden |
To watch video clips of Unnatural Causes film series, click here
Come watch the films with us and share your thoughts.
Rabies and Wildlife Symposium - April 22
PH Workforce Development Series: Dr. Wykoff - April 23
“Your World and Your Role in It” – the local health department in the context of our nation’s health
National Public Health Week - April 6-10, 2009
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo
October 25-29, 2008
San Diego, CA
http://www.apha.org/meetings/
Sick Around the World: Film & Presentation
Watch the film
October 21
"In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures."
Attend the presentation
“Why are we Number 37? Healthcare in the U.S. and Around the World”
October 29
Events sponsored by:Office of External Scholarships & WUOT 91.9 fm
Public Health Colloquium
September 19, 2008; 10 a.m.
Dr. Jon Oberlander, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
“Health care reform and the Presidential candidates’ positions”
Hodge Library Auditorium
Tennessee Public Health Association Annual Conference
“Preparing the Best Game Plan: Tackling Behaviors for Health Improvement”
August 27-29, 2008
Cool Spring Marriott, Franklin TN
http://www.tnpublichealth.org/
AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting (Poster Presentation): June 8-10, 2008
Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.
http://www.academyhealth.org/arm/
Public Health Colloquium
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Guest speakers:
Glen Mays, PhD., M.P.H., Assoc. Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Health Policy and Management
Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Public Health Colloquium
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Guest speaker:
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD
Peter P. Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Kentucky, College of Public Health
Public Health Colloquium
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Guest speaker:
Stephanie Bailey, M.D., M.S., Chief, Office of Public Health Practice
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Contact CPH
302 Bailey Education Complex
1122 Volunteer Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: (865) 974-5249
Fax: (865) 974-8718
Email: cph@utk.edu