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Wednesday Seminars 2024–2025
12:15 p.m.–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.
Upcoming Events
Past Seminars 2023-2024
Select past Wednesday seminars are uploaded below and are available on the PFRH YouTube channel.
11/06/2024 - HIV Protection Patterns among Young Women in Eswatini from a High-Frequency Longitudinal Phone Survey
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | November 6, 2024
Speaker:
Abigail Greenleaf, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health (at ICAP)
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
10/16/2024 - Strategies to Promote Food Security in Maryland
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | October 16, 2024
Speakers:
Kristen Mmari, DrPH
Associate Professor
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Susan Gross, PhD
Associate Practice Professor
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Erin Hager, PhD
Associate Professor
Bloomberg School of Public Health
10/09/2024 - Women’s Economic Empowerment: Unpacking how relationships can help and hinder through methods innovation
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series | October 9, 2024
Speakers:
H. Colleen Stuart, PhD
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Co-Director, Gender & Work Initiative
Anaise Williams, PhD, MPH
Assistant Scientist
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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
