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Wednesday Seminars 2024-2025

12:15 - 1:20 p.m. 

Hybrid Seminars | In person in room W2030 or via Zoom

Join us for exciting and engaging weekly seminars led by experts, covering important public health topics.
Contact PFRH-Communications if you have any questions. 

Past Seminars 2023-2024

Select past Wednesday seminars are uploaded below and are available on the PFRH YouTube channel

10/02/2024 - New Opportunities for Rapid Mortality Data Collection via Mobile Phone Surveys

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | October 2, 2024 

Speaker: Georges Reniers, PhD 
Associate Professor of Demography 
Department of Population Health 
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

09/25/2024 - Advances in Adolescent Health, 2010 - Present

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | September 54, 2024 

Speakers: 
Robert Blum, MD, PhD, MPH 
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Sam Beckwith, PhD 
Senior Research Analyst, ChildTrends 

Kristin Mmari, DrPH Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health

09/04/2024 - Stories of Our Faculty, Part 1

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | September 4, 2024 

Moderator: Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP  

Speakers: 
Suzanne Bell, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor 
Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor 
Carolina Cardona, PhD, Assistant Scientist 
Michele Decker, ScD, Professor 
Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor 
Li Liu, PhD, MHS, MB, Associate Professor 
Astha Ramaiya, DrPH, Assistant Scientist 
Annie Smith, PhD, Assistant Scientist

03/06/2024 - Ouagadougou Partnership: How much do you know about SHR in Francophone West Africa?

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | March 6, 2024 

Speaker: 
Marie Ba, MA 
Director 
Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination

02/28/2024 - Advancing Family Planning Through Advocacy

PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | February 28, 2024

Speakers: 

Duff Gillespie, PhD 
Professor Emeritus 
Formerly Co-Principal Investigator, Advance Family Planning 
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health 
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Beth Fredrick, BA 
Independent Consultant 
Formerly Co-Principal Investigator, Advance Family Planning 
Deputy Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health 

Sabrina Karklins, MPA, BA 
Independent Consultant 
Formerly Project Director, Advance Family Planning 
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

02/21/2024 - Bringing Youth ParticipatoryAction into Health Communication Research

 

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | February 21, 2024 

Speaker: 
Robin Stevens, PhD, MPH 
Associate Professor | Associate Dean of Research 
Director, Health Equity & Media Lab 
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism 
University of Southern California

02/07/2024 - Structural Xenophobia and Birth Outcomes: U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Perspectives

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | February 7, 2024

Speaker: 

Goleen Samari, PhD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
University of Southern California

12/13/2023 - Mapping Subnational Gender Gaps in Internet and Mobile Adoption Using Social Media Data

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | December 13, 2023 

Speaker: 
Casey Breen, PhD, MA, BA 
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Social Science 
University of Oxford

09/20/2023 - Global Women's Health and Gender Equity: Evidence to Action Leadership Panel to Advance SDG5


PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | September 20, 2023 

Moderated by Michele Decker, ScD, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Speakers: 
Feinian Chen, PhD Professor of Sociology Director of Hopkins Population Center Johns Hopkins University 

Anita Raj, PhD Professor, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Executive Director, Newcomb Institute of Tulane University 

Jay Silverman, PhD Professor of Medicine and Global Public Health University of California at San Diego

 

09/13/2023 - Stories of our Faculty, Part 2

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | September 13, 2023 

Speakers: 

  • Saifuddin Ahmed, PhD, MBBS, Professor 
  • Phil Anglewicz, PhD, MA, Associate Professor 
  • Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor 
  • Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, Associate Scientist 
  • Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor 
  • Dylan Jackson, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor 
  • Celia Karp, PhD, Assistant Professor 
  • Kristin Mmari, DrPH, MA, Associate Professor 
  • Terrinieka Powell, PhD, MA, Associate Professor 
  • Allison West, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor 
  • Shannon Wood, PhD, MSC, Assistant Professor 
  • Carolina Cardona, PhD, MHS, Assistant Scientist
09/06/2023 - Stories of our Faculty, Part 1

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health 
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | September 6, 2023

Speakers: 

  • Michele Decker, ScD, MPH, Professor 
  • Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor 
  • Beth Marshall, DrPH, MPH, Associate Scientist 
  • Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA, Professor 
  • Charvonne Holliday-Nworu, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor 
  • Farah Qureshi, ScD, Assistant Professor 
  • Astha Ramaiya, DrPH, Assistant Scientist S
  • ally Safi, PhD, MSPH, Assistant Scientist Dana Sarnak, PhD, Assistant Scientist 
  • Annie Smith, PhD, Assistant Scientist 
  • Linnea Zimmerman, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor

 

04/12/2023 – Food Access for Infants and Toddlers in Maryland: Promoting Nutrition and Health Equity

 

Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, RD
Associate Scientist
BSPH-PFRH

Darriel Harris, PhD 
Research Associate
BSPH-Department of Environmental Health and Engineering

Felicia Jones Taylor, Ed.D
Prenatal to Three Project Director
Building Better Beginnings
Maryland Family Network

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