December 2019
4th Annual Population Health Science Research Workshop – Call for papers
Call for papers! Deadline for submission: 11:59 p.m. EDT on October 1, 2019 The workshop is designed to bring together scholars from economics, epidemiology, demography, sociology and related disciplines to present papers on topics related to population health. The workshop will prioritize rigorous empirical work on methodological or content frontiers of population health research. (Theoretical work but should be linked to an empirical application.) The workshop is designed to identify and push the cutting edge in population health science. See…
Find out more »Community Driven Research Day
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RESEARCH DAY encourages collaborations between researchers and community based organizations (CBOs) and community groups who have research questions that they are interested in answering, specifically in ways that address social determinants of health. Through an interactive poster session, CBOs and community groups will highlight their questions to CDRD participants, who will include area nonprofits, community groups, public sector partners, and researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and Thomas Jefferson University.…
Find out more »PenNSAM Symposium: Tools and Resources for Human Nutrition Research at Penn and CHOP
This symposium is designed to give our community of investigators and clinicians at Penn and CHOP an update on PenNSAM initiatives and, most importantly, describe how PenNSAM will act as a community resource to facilitate the research of a wide range of investigators across campus. View the flyer here.
Find out more »January 2020
Health Disparities Seminar with Chanita Hughes Halbert
Academic-Community Partnerships for Translational Research in Cancer Health Disparities Speaker: Chanita Hughes Halbert, PhD Associate Dean for Assessment, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement, College of Medicine Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished AT&T Endowed Chair for Cancer Equity Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina
Find out more »March 2020
DBEI Research Day – Cancelled
Despite our robust knowledge base and big investments, the U.S. lags behind other developed nations in many health outcomes. How can we move our population science research from potential to real health improvement? Keynoter, Sue Curry, PhD, shares her insights on March 18,1:30 p.m., at Penn’s Biomedical Research Building, 421 Curie Blvd. "Population Health: Making Science Matter," this year's Brian L. Strom Professorship Lecture, is a highlight of this third annual event. The full program, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., will also showcase highlights…
Find out more »April 2020
Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting 2020 – Cancelled
* See the message from the organizers here. SBM is a vibrant, multidisciplinary society focused on the role of behavior in improving health. Most of our country's most daunting health challenges have behavioral origins, and achieving SBM’s vision of “better health through behavior change” has never been more important. SBM members include the nation’s leading scientists and practitioners, and SBM Annual Meetings are the premier forum for the most influential behavioral medicine research.
Find out more »