Join us Thursday, March 10th at 6pm at Jaywalkers!
We are planning National Public Health Week!
April 4th – 8th
Monday: What is Public Health? Why should I get an MPH? (Kelly Gorman)
Tuesday: Public Health Policy (Elizabeth Durkin)
Wednesday: Mental Health (Joseph Pacheco & Amber Ashley)
Thursday: Environmental Health (Karissa Deculus)
Friday: Diversity w/ LGBT focus (Stephanie Grassie)
We need help with:
Speaker Introductions
Food/Lunch Set Up & Clean Up
Advertising & Promoting the Events
Promoting awareness of the new texting law(s)
If you are an individual or student organization interested in any of the topics and/or the items we need help with, please ATTEND! If you cannot make it please contact the officer in charge of the topic. (listed in parentheses).
Also, we will be voting in 2011-2012 officers in May. If you are interested in a position please attend the March and April meetings to learn more.
Question/comments: Feel free to look up any of the officers listed above in the Groupwise Address Book, or email: kumphso@gmail.com
We will be picking up the donation boxes and sorting them during our meeting this Thursday. Feel free to join us! Orr Major cafeteria, 6:30pm! Thank you for helping us!!!
INMED Cross Cultural Competency Symposium: Friday, Oct 2
People seeking healthcare in North America are increasingly global in their make up. Some 50 million are culturally diverse and operate with understandings of health and medicine that are unfamiliar to most healthcare professionals. Nevertheless, we must effectively understand and communicate with these individuals and families to be successful in assisting them. For this very reason, INMED is offering the Cross-Crossing CulturesCultural Competency in Healthcare Symposium on October 2, 2009.
Kansas City community organizations, including the University of Kansas Medical Center, are hosting a Community Conversation focusing on girls and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning. At the event, attendees will discuss how our community can help open doors and promote STEM opportunities to girls.
We are in need of recorders for the event who will write down the highlights from the discussion groups. Recorders must attend a training on Wednesday, September 30th, 5 – 9 p.m. as well as the Community
Conversation on Tuesday, October 6, 5:30 – 9 p.m. Recorders will receive dinner at both events and certification for the training. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to sign up. (See attached flyer)
For more details or to register as a recorder, please contact me at pbaum@kumc.edu or call, 588-1017 or my cell, 785-766-1560. For more information or to register for the Community Conversation,
More information at: girls in stem website
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSASSCHOOL OF LAW
Requests your company at a special screening of
UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?Episode One
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Time: 3:45 pm – 5: 30 pm
Place:KU School of Law Room 104
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film moderated by Elizabeth Leonard and Trinia Arellano.
A reception will follow.
Please RSVP to Trinia Arellano @ Trinia@ku.edu by October 1st.
For more information, please visit www.unnaturalcauses.com.
*If you would like to carpool to this even in Lawrence, Kansas please email kumphso@gmail.com to find out more!
2009 Healthy People 2020 Public Meetings
Registration Now Open
Registration for the 2009 Healthy People 2020 Public Meetings is now open. Meeting participants will be among the first to review and comment on the newly developed draft Healthy People 2020 objectives and topic areas.
October 22, 2009 - Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas University Medical Center in Battenfield Auditorium
Please email Tanya Honderick at thonderick@kumc.edu if you would like to volunteer to help out with this event! This will be a great networking opportunity for all MPH students!
Hello and welcome to the official blog of the Master of Public Health Student Organization at the University of Kansas - School of Medicine.
This blog is designed to be a place for information, collaboration, updates, suggestions, and much more! As you can see we're still under construction, so you'll see many changes over the next few weeks.
We hope you'll bookmark our page and check back for what events we have coming up. Public health students are eager to make a difference and we hope you'll join us in our mission. There are many exciting and fun events we coordinate each semester and joining our team is a great way to make a difference in public health. Joining MPHSO is as little or as much as you want it to be. Anyone can join (not just MPH students) and we encourage membership from a wide variety of fields, including: epidemiologists, public health officers, physicians, lawyers, MPH students, Health Policy & Law students, medical students, environmentalists, researchers, counselors and more!
For more information about the MPH degree program at the University of Kansas, please refer to the university website.
Check back soon! We'll be updating this page very regularly to keep everyone notified of upcoming events and what we've been busy doing.
