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Special treats (for me):
Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the American College of Epidemiology, September 19, 2018, in Cincinnati OH. (award presentation and acceptance remarks)
Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the American Public Health Association Epidemiology Section, October 31, 2016, in Denver CO. (award presentation and acceptance)
Coming / recent broadcasts
“Advocacy for Change: Celebrating Past Successes and Planning for the Future”
40th annual Minority Health Conference from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Student Caucus, with a broadcast of the 21st annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, February 22, 2019 (info, Minority Health Conference trailer)
“Reclaiming the Narrative”
39th annual Minority Health Conference from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Student Caucus, with a broadcast of the 20th annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, February 23, 2018 (info, Recordings)
“The Courage to Lead: Scholar-Activism and Health Equity in Turbulent Times”
23rd National Health Equity Research Webcast, Recorded September 29, 2017, (webcast)
“Systems of Power: Recalling Our Past, Restructuring Our Future”
38th annual Minority Health Conference from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Student Caucus, with a broadcast of the 19th annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, February 24, 2017 (info, Recordings)
“Political Power, Policy, and Health Equity”
22nd National Health Equity Research Webcast, Recorded June 7, 2016, (webcast)
Recorded presentations of my current thinking, including:
“Why haven’t compelling epidemiologic data eliminated health disparities?”, first part presented
in the Social Epidemiology Seminar, UNC Department of Epidemiology, September 20, 2017;
second part presented at the American College of Epidemiology Minority Affairs Committee Workshop, September 23, 2017, New Orleans LA
“Epidemiology, equity, economics, evolution, and enlightenment”,
presentation in the Social Epidemiology Seminar, UNC Department of Epidemiology, August 24, 2016
“Translating Epidemiologic Findings into Action to Eliminate Disparities”
Research seminar at Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences, recorded May 24, 2013 (seminar / slides)
Archived webcasts on health equity from the National Health Equity Research Webcast
and the Annual Minority Health Conference
“In Solidarity: The Role of Public Health in Social Justice”
37th annual Minority Health Conference from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Student Caucus, with a broadcast of the 18th annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, February 26, 2016 (info, video announcement)
“Advancing a Community- Based Model for Violence Prevention”
21st National Health Equity Research Webcast, Recorded June 2, 2015, (webcast)
“Reaching for the American Dream: Economic Mobility and Minority Health”
36th annual Minority Health Conference from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Student Caucus broadcast of the 17th annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, presented by William S. Darity, PhD, February 27, 2015 (info, video announcement)
“School-to-Prison Pipeline: from Perceptions to Solutions”
20th National Health Equity Research Webcast, Recorded June 3, 2014, (webcast)
“Innovative Approaches to Youth Health: Engaging Youth in Creating Healthy Communities”
35th annual Minority Health Conference from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Student Caucus, with a broadcast of the 16th annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, presented by Dr. Gail Christopher, February 28, 2014 (info, video announcement)
“Early Childhood Development: Investing in Our Children and Our Future”
19th National Health Equity Research Webcast (formerly the Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health), recorded June 4, 2013 (info)
“Constructing the Foundation for Health Equity”
34th Annual Minority Health Conference, February 22, 2013. The 15th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Brian D. Smedley, PhD, will be webcast, with live viewer questions, (info)
“Social Determinants of Health Disparities: Moving the Nation to Care about Social Justice”
18th National Health Equity Research Webcast (formerly the Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health), recorded June 5, 2012 (info)
“Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity”
33rd Annual Minority Health Conference, Feb. 24, 2012 (info). Archived webcasts available from the 14th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Ana Diez-Roux and the 1st Annual Victor J. Schoenbach Health Disparities Keynote Lecture by Nina Wallerstein. (webcasts)
“Health Equity: Progress and Pitfalls”
17th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health, June 7, 2011 (info)
“The Promise of Health Equity: Advancing the Discussion to Eliminate Disparities in the 21st Century”
32nd Annual Minority Health Conference, with an interactive webcast of the 13th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Bonnie Duran. Feb. 25, 2011 (info)
12th Annual
William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Robert E. Fullilove, “Building Community in the Age of Information: Fighting Health Inequality in the Modern World” Feb 26, 2010. (info)
10th Annual
William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Nancy Krieger, “The Impact of Poverty, Culture, and Environment on Minority Health” Feb 29, 2008. (info)
“Does Racism Make Us Sick?”
13th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (info)
“Confronting
Institutional Racism”, by Camara P. Jones (2/28/2003
webcast)
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Materials on this site
(Other materials by this author can
be found at the
EPID600 course public website and
within the EPID 168 historical site.)
Other on-line textbooks, courses, and resources
Epidemiology:
- UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health EPID600 - Introduction to Epidemiology for Public Health public website, including lecture slides and recordings.
- 7/2013 Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health, a Coursera course by Karin Yeatts and Lorraine Alexander. (Basic) Introductory video.
- 10/2014 teachepi.org - A website for teaching and learning epidemiology, by Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, McGill University. Professor Pai has created a rich resource of Powerpoint slides (with excellent diagrams), handouts, calculators, and other materials for an intermediate-level introductory course and courses on meta-analysis, TB, and other topics
- ActivEPI - a complete online epidemiology course by legendary epidemiology author and teacher David G. Kleinbaum and colleagues. ActivEPI includes ActivEPI web, an interactive website with video and animated narrated instructional expositions, interactive study questions, quizzes, and homework exercises, and also a free electronic text (English and Spanish ActivEpi Español), CD, and other resources.
- A short introduction to epidemiology, 2nd ed, by Neil Pearce.
- Epidemiology
for the uninitiated (a succinct presentation)
- Basic epidemiology 2nd ed., R Bonita, R Beaglehole, T Kjellström, WHO, 2006
- Epiville, a learning tool developed specifically for Principles of Epidemiology (P6400) at Columbia University
- Fundamentals of Epidemiology I from JHSPH OpenCourseWare, JHSPH epidemiology case studies in WikiEducator,
- Teach Epidemiology has resources for epidemiology teachers (and learners). (related site:
Epidemiology Education Movement)
- Slides from Sandro Galea's introductory epidemiology course at the University of Michigan (EPID 600)
- Eyal Shahar home page has a link to a draft textbook as well as writings on methodology, commentaries, and other resources including inspirational quotations!
- Epidemiology at Tuskegee University resources from the College of Veterinary Medicine Nursing & Allied Health (infectious disease orientation)
- North Carolina Epi Teams Training Curriculum has individual and group activities that Epi Teams can use to develop skills in disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and communication (from the UNC Center for Public Health Preparedness of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health)
- Glossaries
Statistics:
- 5/2015 Statulator, free on-line statistical calculator that conducts statistical analyses, interprets the results, and makes suggestions for presenting them.
- 4/2012 OpenIntro Statistics
- 4/2012 Online Statistics Education: An Interacative Multimedia Course of Study developed by Rice University, University of Houston, and Tufts University (version 2 is also available)
- Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics, including HyperStat Online Textbook, by David M. Lane
- Concepts
and applications of inferential statistics, by Richard
Lowry
- StatPrimer
(with exercises), by B. Gerstman and Marg Innovera
- Data
analysis with Epi Info (with exercises), by B. Gerstman
- Improving Medical Statistics and the Interpretation of Medical Studies,
by Eric Roehm, M.D., F.A.C.C. (Featured in NetWatch, Science 6 May 2005;308:769)
- 4/2010 The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice, by Gerard E. Dallal, Ph.D.
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SurfStat.australia: an online text in introductory statistics [Review]
- Glossaries:
Valerie
Easton and John McColl, David
Howell, SurfStat
Biology:
Various:
(Relatively) new postings
- 7/15 Social Justice and Equality materials for my new seminar course plus a "library of resources" with links to articles and multimedia recordings on underlying determinants of public health, social justice, and human behavior.
- 7/09 HealthMap uses online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats.
- 7/09 EPI 418 Rapid Epidemiological Surveys in Developing Countries is a course created by Professor Emeritus Ralph R. Frerichs at UCLA that covers the need for rapid surveys, sampling theories, rapid two-stage cluster surveys, fieldwork, data analysis, and reporting.
- 8/2010
OpenEpi:
Open Source Statistics for Public Health has on-line and downloadable
free statistical calculators for epidemiology, with documentation,
plus a huge number of links to free statistics/epidemiology-related
software. (The site was updated in 2009.)
- 2/2012
Frank Harrell's SAS macros: SAS macros and data step programs useful in survival
analysis and logistic regression. Includes several
macros for fitting spline functions.
NOTE: These macros are unsupported.
Author: Frank E Harrell, Jr
- 11/2008
AuthorAID provides researchers in developing countries with a community space for discussion, questions, and advice; best practices in writing and publication, training workshops on scientific writing, networking opportunities, and personal mentoring.
- 11/2008
HINARI Access to Research Initiative is a WHO initiative to enable developing country researchers to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
- 03/2008
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Take a look at their global data visualizations.
- 03/2008
AskSphere (Southeast Public Health Educational Resource for Enhancement) has various public health training resources, including epidemiology.
- 11/2007
History:
To Slay the Devouring Monster Exhibit on the smallpox vaccination experiments and campaign of Benjamin Waterhouse during the early 19th century. Waterhouse’s first attempts employed smallpox virus itself. (See short article in Harvard Magazine.)
.
- 10/2007
STROBE Statement
is a new initiative to improve reporting of observational studies. It represents a major
collaboration of epidemiologists, statisticians, and editors. The 22-item STROBE checklist and
a comprehensive explanation and elaboration document are being published in 10/2007
as free access articles on in 10/2007 in Annals of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology,
and PLoS Medicine among others.
- 3/2006
Epidemiology Education Movement
has information about a grass-roots effort to promote the teaching of epidemiology to middle school and high school students.
- 3/2005
History
of epidemiology site maintained by Alfredo Morabia (includes
articles from volumes 46 and 47 of the Journal of Social and
Preventive Medicine and other information
- 2/2005
NetEpi: “Network-enabled
Epidemiology” is a collaborative project to create a suite
of free, open source software tools for epidemiology and public
health practice
- 11/2003
Goldberger's
War: Stopping Pellagra in the South. NPR's Mike Pesca speaks
with Alan Kraut, author of Goldberger’s War: The life
and work of a public health crusader. (broadcast 10/2/2003)
- 7/2003
North
Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Site
has an extensive collection of links to free, on-line training
resources, including audio “tutorials” (narrated
slide presentations) for selected lectures in EPID160/EPID600, the
course that I now teach The Center has a new periodical
FOCUS
on Field Epidemiology [Enfoque
en Epidemiología de Campo] with a hands-on, practical
approach to various topics in field epidemiology. (July 2004 issue:
Epidemic
Curves)
- New
York New Jersey Public Health Training Center has an interactive
orientation to public health
- Population
and health: an introduction to epidemiology, by Ian Rockett
- EpiData
– freeware program for epidemiologic data entry
- Studying
Populations: computer assisted learning package for basic
epidemiological Methods
- MIT's
OpenourseWare Initiative, list
of courses
- Health
statistics - tools of the trade, concepts, formulas, and interpretation
of the range of commonly published vital statistics and related
statistical concepts (from the Pennsylvania State Health Department).
- Public
Health Code of Ethics (9/30/2001)
- EpiGrad
Today - Every epidemiologist needs a place to call her
own - very witty! (9/20/2001)
- Case
study of a major program of epidemiologic investigation: Atherosclerosis
Research in Communities (includes data collection protocols,
manuscript proposal forms, . . .) (9/30/2001)
About epidemiology and public health, including resources for young people
Featured web sites relevant to epidemiology
… and statistics
- 1/2005
Learning
Statistics through Activities
– about a dozen puzzles, demonstrations, and simulations,
designed by Engin A. Sungur, to teach basic statistical concepts.
My favorite is “To switch or not to switch”
- Interactive
Statistics Pages – over 300 web pages that explain and
perform statistical calculations
- Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics - simulations,
demonstrations, case studies, exercises, source code for Java
applets
- ViSta,
the Visual Statistics System - freeware (Windows, Mac, Unix)
for dynamic, interactive statistical visualizations; site has
lecture notes, applets, access to source code
- VassarStats
- statistical calculators, demonstrations, textbook - featured
in Science
- NCHS research:
Visualizing
health statistics, Pennsylvania State University
Other epidemiology information resources
Miscellanea
- Several key sites for population, demography, reproductive health, and other health information, literature, and data: Population
Reference Bureau, Population
Index, Popline, FastStats
- Math
refresher on ratios and proportions, algebraic expressions,
exponents, and logarithms – some basics from the University
of Minnesota
- Math Forum for help with all kinds of math - don't miss Ask
Dr.Math!
- More resources for math and writing skills
Other work by this author
- My current introductory course, Principles of epidemiology for public health (EPID600) (taught fall 2001 - spring 2013 and online summer 2002 through the present)
- Spring seminar course (2014-2017), Social justice and equality - in search of John Cassel's epidemiology. Co-taught with Bill Jenkins
- Evolving history of the UNC Department of Epidemiology, link
- UNC
SPH Minority Health Project, featuring interactive Internet broadcasts, archived presentations and webcasts, reports, links to organizations, and other resources relevant to health disparities, diversity, and health equity.
- The Epidemiology of Diversity in Epidemiology. Presented at the American College of Epidemiology Minority Affairs Committee workshop, September 11, 2010
[slides]
- Recorded seminar: Translating epidemiologic findings into action to eliminate disparities. Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences, May 24, 2013 [slides]
- More about / by the author
Other sites to know
For information:
Victor_Schoenbach@unc.edu,
go.unc.edu/vjs/
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