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"Social Justice and Equality - in search of John Cassel's epidemiology"
A seminar course, EPID799C, taught by Bill Jenkins and Vic Schoenbach during spring semesters of 2014-2017.

About the course     Schedule overview     Student advice     2017 course materials*
[*materials should be publicly accessible; to view a recorded class, send email to Vic.]

Featuring Vic's Virtual library of resources
(Example folders: Big challenges for public health; Choice, decision-making, cognition, neuroscience; Commercial interests; Demography, economics, geography; Education, schools, early childhood, youth; Environmental and occupational; Epidemiology, behavioral science, biological science, physical science; History and biography; Individuals, organizations, networks; Origins of our planet, life, and ourselves; Political economy; Practice resources; Public institutions, NGOs, philanthropy; Racism, sexism, stereotyping, hate groups; Religion and Ideology; Social medicine; Student protest; Government, voter-suppression, voting-counting irregularities; Transcendental Meditation and the David Lynch Foundation; UNC, NC, US policies and resources)

Featured items:

• New posts   COVID-19   2020 Election
• Challenges: Sustainability, climate change, environmental degradation
• Case-examples: Lead
• Cognitive and neuroscience: Behavioral economics
• Cognitive and neuroscience: Racism
• Social science: School (re-)segregation and privatization
• History
• Basic sciences: Complexity
• Epidemiology societies, including
  • American College of Epidemiology (ACE) and its Committee on Minority Affairs Committee
  • American Public Health Association (APHA)
  • Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) and its Diversity and Inclusion Committee
• Organizational behavior: Law enforcement
• UNC historical materials
• People, by surname
• TM and the David Lynch Foundation, including the Quiet Time program

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Recorded interviews with UNC faculty and alumni: Van Sizar Allen, Mayra Alvarez, John Anderson, Ronald Aubert, Randolph Carter, Lana Dial, Edward Ellis, Michele Forman, John Hatch, Eugene Hines, Jr., M. Anita Page Holmes, Barbara Hulka, Joan Huntley, Michel Ibrahim, Sherman James, Curtis Jackson, Ethel Jean Jackson, Bill Jenkins, Bert Kaplan, David Kleinbaum, David McCoy, Lauren McCullough, Andrew Olshan, Bernice Otudeko, Theodore Parrish, Cheryl Blackmore Prince, Barbara Pullen-Smith, Diane Rowley, David Savitz, Victor Schoenbach, Carl Shy, Victoria Motley Washington, Allen Wilcox, Steve Wing, Stephen Zyzanski.

Vic Schoenbach's presentations including

Why haven't compelling epidemiologic data eliminated health disparities?, Victor J. Schoenbach. Presented September 23, 2017 at the American College of Epidemiology Minority Affairs Committee Workshop, New Orleans, LA (Slides, recording coming; an earlier version was presented on September 20 in the UNC Social Epidemiology Seminar)

The ACE Minority Affairs Committee looks toward our second quarter century, Victor J. Schoenbach. Presented September 23, 2017 at the American College of Epidemiology Minority Affairs Committee Workshop, New Orleans, LA (Slides, recording coming)

Epidemiology, equity, economics, evolution, and enlightenment, Victor J. Schoenbach. Presented August 24, 2016 in the Social Epidemiology Seminar, UNC Department of Epidemiology (Slides, 40-minute audio recording)

Health Disparities - Broader Perspectives, Victor J. Schoenbach. Presented April 11, 2016
at UNC AcademyHealth Lightning Talks on "Health Disparities" (slides, 15-minute audio recording)

A Consequential Future for Epidemiology, Victor J. Schoenbach. Presented September 8, 2014 at the
American College of Epidemiology (link) annual meeting, lunch sesson on
"Epidemiology: Foundations Laid - Lessons Learned - Directions Charted to Address Continuing Challenges" (Word document)

Translating Epidemiologic Findings into Action to Eliminate Disparities , Victor J. Schoenbach. Presented May 24, 2013
at the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University (60-minute video recording)

Behavioral Epidemiology - Expanding the Boundaries, Victor J. Schoenbach. Presented September 1995 at the American College of Epidemiology annual meeting (Word document)

Vic's home page, including Vic's scrapbook and Vic's YouTube channel