SOCIAL DYNAMICS & COMMUNITY HEALTH SPEAKER SERIES

The Social Dynamics & Community Health Speaker Series is held once per month usually from 12-1:30 pm in A521 Public Health. See below for specific seminar dates.

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Thu 11/29/2018 Online Hyper-local Communities: Designing for Sustainability and Inclusion BCHS Seminar Series Online Hyper-local Communities: Designing for Sustainability and Inclusion Thu 11/29/2018 12:00PM - 1:30PM A521 Public Health Dr. Farzan earned her Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In her research, she seeks to understand, design, and implement socio-technical systems that empower individuals and groups to contribute to knowledge production and community building. Various information systems have emerged to facilitate citizen participation in communities. In this talk, Dr. Farzan will introduce a framework to identify and analyze factors that influence the sustainability of “hyper-local” information systems, present studies of the framework through one exemplary hyper-local system, and demonstrate the potential of system design to bridge digital inequalities, especially across gender and race. She will also present recent participatory action research to engage youth from underserved communities in building community technologies.
Mon 10/8/2018 Using Systems Science Approaches to Reduce Health Inequities for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth BCHS Seminar Series Using Systems Science Approaches to Reduce Health Inequities for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Mon 10/8/2018 1:00PM - 2:00PM 6140 Public Health, Henkel Seminar Room Robert Coulter, PhD, MPH, is a Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. As a public health researcher, Dr. Coulter's mission is to reduce substance use and violence inequities for sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY; i.e., adolescents who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender [LGBT]). To accomplish this mission, he conduct three lines of inquiry: epidemiologic, intervention, and systems science research. Dr. Coulter's research agenda integrates these three approaches to (1) improve our understanding of the complex social mechanisms producing SGMY health inequities and (2) increase our knowledge about the impact of interventions on violence and substance use inequities for SGMY.
Thu 10/4/2018 "You Have to Want It": Mental Models of Addiction Recovery & Implications for Intervention BCHS Seminar Series "You Have to Want It": Mental Models of Addiction Recovery & Implications for Intervention Thu 10/4/2018 12:00PM - 1:00PM 6140 Public Health, Henkel Seminar Room Ms. Erin Stringfellow is a PhD candidate at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in applying qualitative and systems science methods to improving outcomes for people living with addictions. Her goal is to engage communities to develop sustainable interventions and policies that support recovery from addiction.
Mon 10/1/2018 Leverage Points and Consumer Insights: Integrating Systems Science and Public Health BCHS Seminar Series Leverage Points and Consumer Insights: Integrating Systems Science and Public Health Mon 10/1/2018 1:00PM - 2:00PM 6140 Public Health, Henkel Seminar Room Brian J. Biroscak, PhD, MS, MA is Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Medicine. His line of research is focused by a social justice perspective with emphases on violence and injury prevention research. He has a strong research interest in system dynamics modeling, which utilizes ‘feedback’ insights and computer simulation to hypothesize, test, and refine explanations of systems change. His expertise in social marketing—which integrates commercial marketing with other approaches to influence behaviors that benefit individuals and the greater social good—is particularly valuable for prevention efforts
Thu 9/20/2018 Social Networks & Health - Kar-Hai Chu, Pitt Center for Research on Media, Technology, & Health BCHS Seminar Series Social Networks & Health - Kar-Hai Chu, Pitt Center for Research on Media, Technology, & Health Thu 9/20/2018 12:00PM - 1:00PM A521 Public Health Kar-Hai Chu of Pitt's Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health will discuss his use of innovative techniques such as social network analysis (SNA) in exploratory and surveillance studies and interventions including recent work on the marketing and use of electronic cigarettes.

Thu 11/29/2018
Online Hyper-local Communities: Designing for Sustainability and Inclusion BCHS Seminar Series
Online Hyper-local Communities: Designing for Sustainability and Inclusion
Thu 11/29/2018 12:00PM - 1:30PM
A521 Public Health

Dr. Farzan earned her Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In her research, she seeks to understand, design, and implement socio-technical systems that empower individuals and groups to contribute to knowledge production and community building. Various information systems have emerged to facilitate citizen participation in communities. In this talk, Dr. Farzan will introduce a framework to identify and analyze factors that influence the sustainability of “hyper-local” information systems, present studies of the framework through one exemplary hyper-local system, and demonstrate the potential of system design to bridge digital inequalities, especially across gender and race. She will also present recent participatory action research to engage youth from underserved communities in building community technologies.

Mon 10/8/2018
Using Systems Science Approaches to Reduce Health Inequities for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth BCHS Seminar Series
Using Systems Science Approaches to Reduce Health Inequities for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Mon 10/8/2018 1:00PM - 2:00PM
6140 Public Health, Henkel Seminar Room

Robert Coulter, PhD, MPH, is a Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. As a public health researcher, Dr. Coulter's mission is to reduce substance use and violence inequities for sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY; i.e., adolescents who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender [LGBT]). To accomplish this mission, he conduct three lines of inquiry: epidemiologic, intervention, and systems science research. Dr. Coulter's research agenda integrates these three approaches to (1) improve our understanding of the complex social mechanisms producing SGMY health inequities and (2) increase our knowledge about the impact of interventions on violence and substance use inequities for SGMY.

Thu 10/4/2018
"You Have to Want It": Mental Models of Addiction Recovery & Implications for Intervention BCHS Seminar Series
"You Have to Want It": Mental Models of Addiction Recovery & Implications for Intervention
Thu 10/4/2018 12:00PM - 1:00PM
6140 Public Health, Henkel Seminar Room

Ms. Erin Stringfellow is a PhD candidate at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in applying qualitative and systems science methods to improving outcomes for people living with addictions. Her goal is to engage communities to develop sustainable interventions and policies that support recovery from addiction.

Mon 10/1/2018
Leverage Points and Consumer Insights: Integrating Systems Science and Public Health BCHS Seminar Series
Leverage Points and Consumer Insights: Integrating Systems Science and Public Health
Mon 10/1/2018 1:00PM - 2:00PM
6140 Public Health, Henkel Seminar Room

Brian J. Biroscak, PhD, MS, MA is Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Medicine. His line of research is focused by a social justice perspective with emphases on violence and injury prevention research. He has a strong research interest in system dynamics modeling, which utilizes ‘feedback’ insights and computer simulation to hypothesize, test, and refine explanations of systems change. His expertise in social marketing—which integrates commercial marketing with other approaches to influence behaviors that benefit individuals and the greater social good—is particularly valuable for prevention efforts

Thu 9/20/2018
Social Networks & Health - Kar-Hai Chu, Pitt Center for Research on Media, Technology, & Health BCHS Seminar Series
Social Networks & Health - Kar-Hai Chu, Pitt Center for Research on Media, Technology, & Health
Thu 9/20/2018 12:00PM - 1:00PM
A521 Public Health

Kar-Hai Chu of Pitt's Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health will discuss his use of innovative techniques such as social network analysis (SNA) in exploratory and surveillance studies and interventions including recent work on the marketing and use of electronic cigarettes.

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For information on seminars and events in the department, contact:

Sue Cotter
suecot@pitt.edu
412-624-9594

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