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12:15 - 1:20 p.m.
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Past Seminars 2022-2024
Select past Wednesday seminars are uploaded below and are available on the PFRH YouTube channel.
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
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
09/14/2022 - Stories of our Faculty - PART II
- Saifuddin Ahmed, MBBS, PhD, Professor
- Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
- Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor
- Anne Lilly, MSPH, Research Associate
- Tamar Mendelson, PhD, Professor
- Farah Qureshi, ScD, MHS, Assistant Professor
- Astha Ramaiya, DrPH, Research Associate
- Xiaobin Wang, MD, ScD, MPH, Professor
- Allison West, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor
- Shannon Wood, PhD, MSc, Assistant Scientist
09/07/2022 - Stories of our Faculty - PART I
- Phil Anglewicz, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
- Suzanne Bell, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
- Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor
- Carolina Cardona, PhD, MHS, Assistant Scientist
- Beth Fredrick, Senior Associate
- Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, Associate Scientist
- Celia Karp, PhD, Assistant Scientist
- Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA, Professor
- Terri Powell, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
- Maria Trent, MD, MPH, Professor