Health Equity Seminar Series

The schedule will be updated as topics are finalized. Please check back for updates.

• September 13, 2022: The State of Health Equity Research | Michele Allen, MD MS ; Christi Patten, PhD ; Miamon Queeglay ; Tongtan "Bert" Chantarat, PhD, MPH

• October 11, 2022: A Collaboration to Promote Commercial Smoking Cessation Through Cultural Connectedness | Dana Carroll and Dylan Jennings

• November 8, 2022: Healthy Immigrant Community: Mobilizing the Power of Social Networks | Irene Sia, MD, MSc and Mark Wieland, MD, MPH

• December 13, 2022: Panel Discussion On Food Deserts & Community Gardens Across Minnesota | Miguel Valdez Soto, Kristi White, Daryl Olson, and Kayla Johnson. 

                     *Co-Sponsored With UMN SPH Health Equity Work Group 

• January 24, 2023: Partnering To Create Culturally Informed Diabetes Education Materials For The Hmong Community | Katherine Montag Schafer, PharmD*

                     ^{*Joint DFMCH Research Division Seminar  & Innovation Lab} 

• February 14, 2023: Health Disparity Tourism | C2DREAM Investigator Development Core Leads

• March 14, 2023: Topic TBA  | Sean Phalen, PhD, Ajay Umar, and Renaldo Blocker, PhD

• April 11, 2023: Smoking Cessation Outreach For Racial Equity |  Steven Fu, MD, MSCE and Sandra Japuntich, PhD, LP

• May 9, 2023: Engaging With Communities Of Practice |  C2DREAM Community Engagement Core Leads 

• May 23 2023: C2DREAM Health Equity 2nd Annual Conference - Rochester, MN
  

• September 14, 2021: 2021 State of PHDR

• October 12, 2021: Stolen Breaths - Exploring Solutions to the Disproportionate Impact of Police Violence and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Black Lives  |  Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH

• November 9, 2021: COVID-OUT: Outpatient Treatment for SARS-CoV-2 Infection, a Factorial Randomized Trial  |  Carolyn Baramante, MD

• December 14, 2021: Healthy Engaged Lifestyle to Prevent Stroke (HELPS) Study | HELPS Research Team      

• January 13, 2022: Conducting Research For and With Indigenous Communities  |  Mary Owen, MD

                     ^{*Joint PHDR/FMCH Research Division Seminar}  

• February 8, 2022: The University's Role in Substance Use Disorder Leadership Post-COVID  |  Laura Palombi, PharmD

• March 15, 2022: Comics as a Means Toward Radical Healing: The Other Ones by Lee  |  Richard Lee, PhD

                      ^{*Joint PHDR/HEWG Seminar}

• April 12, 2022: "After two years, how are Latino communities dealing with COVID -19 and the sequels? Sharing experiences from working with Latine People in MN." | Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)

• May 10, 2022: Partnerships in Medical Education within Regional Indigenous Communities |  Michael Sundberg, MD, MPH & Mary Owen, MD 

• June 14, 2022: Reducing Cervical Cancer Screening Disparities Through A Primary Care-Based HPV Self Sampling Intervention  |  Rebekah Pratt, PhD & Rachel Winer, MD, MPH