On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor.
April 24: Margot de Wilde. "On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor."
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Public Lectures
April 24, 2008
April 17, 2008
Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota
April 17: Mark Soderstrom, PhD, SUNY. "Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota."
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April 03, 2008
Bioethics and Moral Pluralism
H. Tristram Engelhardt MD, PhD Baylor Medical School / Rice University Dept. of Philosophy
Th, April 3 (Noon, Moos-Tower 2-520) - Bioethics and Moral Pluralism
Respondent: Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, RN (Medical Humanities / Center for Bioethics).
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March 27, 2008
The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics
Hans-Walter Schmühl, PhD. University of Bielefeld, Germany. "The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics."
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March 13, 2008
Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims
Patricia Heberer, PhD. Historian, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims."
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March 05, 2008
Emergency Readiness Rounds: 3/5/2008
Minnesota Disaster Response: Lessons Learned in 2007
speakers:
-Tom Ward, EMT-P, Emergency Medical Services Supervisor, Hennepin County Medical Center.
-Kathy Berlin, RN, University of Minnesota Medical Reserve Corps Coordinator, Academic Health Center Office of Emergency Response.
-Nancy Vanderburg, RN, BSN, PHN, Public Health Preparedness Consultant, MN Department of Health Office of Emergency Preparedness, SE Region of Minnesota.
-Cathy Clark, MA, Acting Director, MN Department of Transportation, Emergency Management Section.
-Pat Tommet, RN, PhD, CNP, Healthcare System Preparedness Unit Supervisor, MN Department of Health Office of Emergency Preparedness.
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Emergency Readiness Rounds: http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/events/rounds/home.html
February 28, 2008
Medical Apartheid
Harriet Washington, "Medical Apartheid."
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Harriet A. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New York City.
This lecture is part of "From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back," a series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008.
February 27, 2008
From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back (series)
in memoriam: Stephen Feinstein, PhD
A series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008:
-February 28: Harriet Washington. "Medical Apartheid."
-March 13: Patricia Heberer, PhD, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims."
-March 27: Hans-Walter Schmühl, PhD, University of Bielefeld, Germany. "The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics."
-April 17: Mark Soderstrom, PhD, SUNY. "Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota."
-April 24: Margot de Wilde. " On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor."
All lectures and films are open to the public without enrollment. For a complete listing of events, please view this PDF.
To join one of these lectures live, please visit http://umconnect.umn.edu/pubh6800. (Lectures begin at 1pm Central Time on the dates listed.)
Resources
The Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum link to the online overview of elements of the exhibit is www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine
The Science Museum of Minnesota link to the exhibition (Feb. 27-May 4) is www.smm.org/deadlymedicine
The University of Minnesota Program in Human Rights and Health: www.phrh.umn.edu
The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: www.chgs.umn.edu
full conference audio proceedings: Center for Bioethics Conference on Medical Ethics and the Holocaust, May 17-19, 1989. Convened by Professor Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics (now at University of Pennsylvania). www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/confAudio.html
Stephen Feinstein, PhD. "Deadly Medicine/Racial Hygiene." February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.
Kirk C. Allison, PhD, MS. "From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine to the Holocaust (Docent Training)." February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.
Contact
For more information contact Kirk Allison: alli0001 at umn.edu or 612 626-6559.
February 01, 2008
Making Research Posters
J. Michael Oakes, PhD, McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. play this lecture now
January 24, 2008
Changing Racial Compositions: Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Reynolds Farley, University of Michigan, "Changing Racial Compositions: Minneapolis-Saint Paul" (keynote address). Advancing Interdisciplinary Research and Action on Health and Education Disparities, January 24, 2008. University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.
October 12, 2007
Public Health Roundtable: Environmental Influences on Human Development and Disease Risk
Philip J. Landrigan, MD. October 12, 2007. School of Public Health Roundtable Series.
More than 125 million of America's children now face historically unprecedented increases in chronic disease and illness such as cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, AD-HD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), and learning and developmental disabilities. Credible scientific evidence increasingly points to environmental hazards and household chemicals as causing and contributing to many of these diseases.
September 28, 2007
Carl J. Martinson lecture: The Elephants in the Room: Social Justice, Public Health, and Health Inequities
Nancy Krieger, PhD, Eleventh Annual Martinson Lecture, September 28, 2007. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Abstract:
Rigorous scientific research on understanding and reducing health disparities is essential, as is federal support for this work. The problems of unjust suffering that we confront are huge, both within the United States and globally. To rectify these wrongs, we need a clear understanding of their causes. The research we need to do necessarily draws on insights from many disciplines and must be concerned with multiple levels of determinants and outcomes and their embodiment across the lifecourse, in different historical generations and different geographic locales. While the specifics of how we approach these issues may vary by research topic, we nevertheless all confront the same three fundamental questions. These are: what are health disparities?; what are their causes?; and who is responsible for health inequities? In my presentation, I will contend that while there may be many partial correct answers to these questions, not all answers are equal and some are out right wrong. To make this case, I will first offer a brief historical reminder that we are not the first to debate these issues. Second, I will argue for why we need an analytic, rather than descriptive, definition of health disparities. Third, I will present several case examples, including some of our new work on current and changing inequities in US premature mortality, to clarify why the science of health disparities is about correct science, not “politically correct” science. And throughout, I will draw attention to some salient elephants, including several in the room whom we need to name if our work is to make a dent in eliminating health inequities.
September 05, 2007
Emergency Readiness Rounds: 9/5/2007
"Healers’ Healing and Resiliency in the Aftermath of Disaster: Harnessing Our Resources across Individual, Family, and Social Systems," Tai J. Mendenhall, Ph.D., LMFT, CTR, University of Minnesota Medical School, Family Medicine and Community Health. September 5, 2007.
University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness (UMNCPHP), University of Minnesota.
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June 10, 2007
2007 Public Health Institute
PubH 7200: Genomics in Public Health
May 21
-David Orren, Privacy, Use and Implications of Data.
-William A. Toscano, Ph.D. Elements of genomics as a science and human biological identity.
May 22
-Kristin Peterson Oehlke, MS, GCG, Family history as a public health tool.
-Kristin Peterson Oehlke, MS, GCG, Potential and limitations of using genomics to improve health.
-Dr. Heather Nelson, Genomic Epidemiology.
May 23
-Bonnie LeRoy, MS, CGC, Genetic counseling and referral.
May 30
-Meri T. Firpo, Stem Cell Research and Genomics.
-Brian Van Ness, Ph.D.. Application of Genomics to Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Diseases with a Focus on Cancer.
May 31
-Greg Fowler, Public Consultation and Public Policy Development.
-John Besser, Genomics and acute disease investigations.
June 1
-Dr. Sabrina Peterson, Netrigenomics/Metabolomics.
-Douglas G. Mashek, PhD, Netrigenomics/Metabolomics.
-Katie Engler, Legal and Ethical Issues in Genomics.
June 4
-William A. Toscano, Ph.D., Translating Genomics Research to Public Health Practice.
June 5
-Kristin Peterson Oehlke, MS, GCG, Direct to Consumer Marketing.
-Dr. Carmen Ramirez, Genomics and Health Disparities.
June 6
-Craig Westover and Anne Barry, Public Good and Individual Rights.
June 06, 2007
SPH Summer Institute, PubH7200-Genomics in Public Health: "Public Good and Individual Rights."
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Wednsday, June 6. A lively debate lead by Craig Westover, a libertarian writer at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Anne Barry, Chief Compliance Officer Minnesota Department of Human Services
Adjunct Professor School of Public Health U of M
Former MN Commissioner of Health Former MN Deputy Commissioner of Finance, on the tension between individual rights and public health genomics.
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