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John O. Browder

Ralph P Hall

Last week, a colleague, mentor, and friend Professor John O. Browder lost his battle against cancer. John has left behind a significant legacy at Virginia Tech and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on his enduring impact.

During the eight years I worked with John, I was able to witness his dedication to student learning and leadership in advancing the international aspects of our academic programs. As a mentor, John was always willing to provide honest and constructive feedback that helped many faculty at Virginia Tech navigate the tenure and promotion process. I now find myself repeating the advice I received from John to others, advice that came from his decades of experience serving on promotion and tenure committees at the school, college, and university level.

In the classroom setting, John created a relaxed and open environment, but always challenged students to continually advance their knowledge. He created…

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Public Health Grand Rounds – Spring 2016

Public Health Grand Rounds

Public health grand rounds provide a regular forum for discussion and communication on significant topics in public health research, policy and practice, and also serves as a platform for collaborations and networking. These seminars are collaboratively organized by the Department of Population Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Practice and Research, and Student Organizations: Public Health Association and American Mock World Health Organization.

Venue

Seminars are held in Room 102 at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine‘s Blacksburg Campus at Virginia Tech. from 12 noon – 12:50 pm, unless otherwise noted.

Directions, Maps & Parking

Find the college on Google Maps; campus map is accessible here. Parking is available in the F/S lot using the visitor parking permit.

Audience

Open to one & all. Students, faculty and staff; also welcome are public health professionals from health organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, and others interested in public health research, policy and practice.

Webcast

The seminars are webcast live and archived at http://mph.vetmed.vt.edu/Seminars.html. Tweet your questions@PublicHealthVT #Seminar.

Schedule

Spring 2016
Date Presenter Title
January 21, 2016

(webcast)
Frank William Pierson, MS, DVM, PhD, Diplomate, ACPV
Professor
Biosecurity and Infection Control, Avian Medicine
Department of Population Health Sciences
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
 Agro-terrorism
January 28, 2016

(webcast)

 Korine Kolivras, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Virginia Tech		 Environmental Variability and the
Continued Emergence of Lyme Disease
February 4, 2016

(webcast)

 Jim Flowers, MBA
Executive Director
VT KnowledgeWorks		 Social Entrepreneurship
February 11, 2016

(webcast)

 Thomas Ewing, PhD
Professor, Department of History
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Virginia Tech		 Conspiring Against Grip:
Public Health and Medical Expertise
during the 1890 Russian Flu
March 17, 2016

(webcast)

 Sally Lahm, PhD
Professor of Research
Department of Global Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health
The George Washington University		 Progressing from Two-thirds Health
to One Health via a Systems Approach
March 24, 2016

(webcast)
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
ASPECT Affiliate Faculty
Virginia Tech
 Global Politics of Health Security:
Policy Reforms to Paradigm Shift
March 31, 2016

(webcast)

 Cristina Lanzas, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease
Department of Population Health and Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine
North Carolina State University		 Transmission Dynamics of
Enteric Pathogens
April 21, 2016

(webcast)

 Osman Ozaltin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Personalized Medicine
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University		 Personalized Medicine
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Public Health Grand Rounds – Fall 2015

Seminars

Public Health Grand Rounds

Public health grand rounds provide a regular forum for discussion and communication on significant topics in public health research, policy and practice. These seminars are collaboratively organized by the Department of Population Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Practice and Research, and Student Organizations: Public Health Association and American Mock World Health Organization.

Venue

Seminars are held in Room 125 at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine‘s Blacksburg Campus at Virginia Tech. from 12 noon – 12:50 pm, unless otherwise noted.

Directions, Maps & Parking

Find the college on Google Maps; campus map is accessible here. Parking is available in the F/S lot using the visitor parking permit.

Audience

Open to one & all. Students, faculty and staff; also welcome are public health professionals from health organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, and others who seek to learn more about public health research, policy and practice.

Webcast

The seminars are webcast live and archived at http://mph.vetmed.vt.edu/Seminars.html.

Schedule

Fall 2015
Date Presenter Title
August 27, 2015

(webcast)

 Kaja Abbas,1 Narges Dorratoltaj,2 Gloria Kang2
1Assistant Professor; 2PhD Student
Department of Population Health Sciences
Virginia Tech		 Epidemiological, Economic and Immune Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Tuberculosis, Brucellosis, Influenza, HIV
September 3, 2015

(webcast)

 Madhav Marathe, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science

Director, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Tech
 Urban Science, Engineering and Public Health: The Role of Big Data and High Performance Pervasive Computing
October 1, 2015

(webcast)
Ronny Bell, PhD, MS
Director, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention
Division of Public Health Sciences
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Addressing Diabetes Disparities
October 15, 2015

(webcast)

 Karen Roberto, PhD
University Distinguished Professor

Adult Development and Aging, Department of Human Development
Director, Center for Gerontology
Director of the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment
Virginia Tech
 Family Care and Community Support for Older Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment
October 22, 2015

(webcast)

 Ralph Hall,1 PhD & Sophie Wenzel,2 MPH
1Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning
2Assistant Director, Center for Public Health Practice & Research
Virginia Tech		 Interdisciplinary Exploratory Research: Visualizing Water Services for Community Decision Making in Burkina Faso
October 29, 2015

(webcast)

 Valerie Ragan, DVM
Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine

Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
 Beyond Private Practice – The Wide World of Veterinary Medicine
November 12, 2015

(webcast)
Scientist
Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
 Reverse Zoonosis of Influenza to Swine: New Perspectives on the Human-Animal Interface
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Public Health Grand Rounds – Spring 2015

Public Health Grand Rounds

Public health grand rounds provide a regular forum for discussion and communication on significant topics in public health research, policy and practice. These seminars are collaboratively organized by the Department of Population Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Practice and Research, and Public Health Student Association.

Venue

Seminars are held in Room 125 at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine‘s Blacksburg Campus at Virginia Tech. from 12 noon – 12:50 pm, unless otherwise noted.

Directions, Maps & Parking

Find the college on Google Maps; campus map is accessible here. Parking is available in the F/S lot using the visitor parking permit.

Audience

Open to one & all. Students, faculty and staff; also welcome are public health professionals from health organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, and others who seek to learn more about public health research, policy and practice.

Webcast

The seminars are webcast live and archived.

Website

http://mph.vetmed.vt.edu/Seminars.html

Schedule

Spring 2015
Date Presenter Title
January 22, 2015

(webcast)

 Laura Sands, PhD
Professor, Center for Gerontology
Department of Human Development
Virginia Tech		 Consequences of Insufficient Help in Late Life: Evidence from Medical Claims Data
January 29, 2015

(webcast)

 Julia Gohlke, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
School of Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham		 Estimating Health Outcomes Attributed to Environmental Exposures using a Variety of Data Sources
February 19, 2015

(webcast)

 Sukran Kilic, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Early Childhood and Education
Aksaray University
Turkey		 Parental Socialization and Children’s Socioemotional Outcomes in the US and Turkey
February 26, 2015

(webcast)

 Kerry Redican, PhD, MSPH, MPH
Professor
Department of Population Health Sciences
Virginia Tech		 Youth Risk Behavior, Assessment, Reporting, and Utility
March 5, 2015

(webcast)

 Ronny Bell, PhD, MS
Director, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention
Division of Public Health Sciences
Wake Forest University Health Sciences		 Chronic Disease Prevalence and Risk Factors in Ethnic Minority Populations
April 9, 2015

(webcast)

 Achla Marathe, PhD
Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics & Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Tech		 Fairness versus Efficiency of Vaccine Allocation Strategies
April 23, 2015

(webcast)

 Mignonne Guy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of African American Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University		 Cancer Prevention in Multiethnic and Underserved Populations
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Public Health Grand Rounds – Fall 2014

Public Health Grand Rounds

http://mph.vetmed.vt.edu/Seminars.html

Public health grand rounds provide a regular forum for discussion and communication on significant topics in public health research, policy and practice. These seminars are collaboratively organized by the Department of Population Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Practice and Research, and Student Organizations – Public Health Association and VT for Global Health.

Venue

Seminars are held in Room 125 at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine’s (VMRCVM) Blacksburg Campus at Virginia Tech. from 3:30pm – 4:20pm, unless otherwise noted.

Directions, Maps & Parking

Find the college on Google Maps; campus map is accessible here. Parking is available in the F/S lot using the visitor parking permit.

Audience

Open to one & all. Students, faculty and staff; also welcome are public health professionals from health organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, and others who seek to learn more about public health research, policy and practice.

Webcast

The seminars are webcast live and archived (from fall 2014).

Schedule

Fall 2014
Date Presenter Title
August 28, 2014 Mihalea Stanca Ciupe, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Virginia Tech		 Immune Modeling of Infectious Diseases
September 4, 2014 Charlie Klauer, PhD
Research Scientist
Leader, Teen Risk and Injury Prevention Group
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute		 What Are Teenager’s Doing that Make Them Such Risky Drivers???
September 25, 2014
Sandy Fogel, MD, FACS
Surgeon, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine & Research Institute
 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
October 9, 2014
Associate Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
Virginia Tech
 Zoonoses at the Human Wildlife Interface
October 30, 2014
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Virginia Tech
 Engineering a SMART Healthcare System
November 13, 2014
David Dowdy, ScM, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
 Modeling the Interface between Diseases, Populations, and Health Systems: The Example of Diagnostic Testing for Tuberculosis
November 20, 2014
P. Selvaraj1, MVSc, PhD & S. Eswari2, MVSc, PhD
1Professor & Head (Thanjavur)
2Associate Professor & Head (Tirunelveli)
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry
Veterinary College and Research Institute
Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
 Stem Cell: Regenerative and Comparative Medicine
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Call For Abstracts for the 14th World Congress on Public Health

  Dear Friends and Colleagues,
 
We warmly invite you to be part of an exciting event in global public health – the 14th World Congress on Public Health to be hosted in Kolkata, India from 11-15 February 2015. The Congress will aim towards fostering the promotion of “Healthy People – Healthy Environment” and will bring together thousands of participants from a wide range of public health disciplines from many countries around the world.
 
The Congress Scientific Committee invites abstract submissions for the 14th World Congress on Public Health, being held 11- 15 February, 2015 in Kolkata, India. To be considered for presentation at the congress, abstracts must be submitted online for review by 15 June 2014. Authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process by 21 September 2014. 
 
14th World Congress on Public Health
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Public Health Grand Rounds

Public health grand rounds provide a regular forum for discussion and communication on significant topics in public health research, policy and practice. These seminars are collaboratively organized by the Department of Population Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Practice and Research, and Student Organizations – Public Health Association and VT for Global Health.

Venue

Seminars are held at Sandy 10 from 3:30pm – 4:20pm, unless otherwise noted. 

Audience

Students, faculty and staff; also welcome are public health professionals from health organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, and others who seek to learn more about public health research, policy and practice. 

Website

http://mph.vetmed.vt.edu/Seminars.html