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Upcoming Events
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Mar
22
Bearing the Burden: Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women12:00pm
Bearing the Burden: Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Zoom
ARMS/Brown Webinar Series 2023
The University of Connecticut’s Center for Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship (ARMS) in Gun Injury Prevention and Brown University’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy have jointly collaborated to host a four-part webinar series entitled Bearing the Burden. The series focuses on gun violence in America, its
intersection with domestic violence, and its disproportionate impact on women, especially women of color. This series will bring together those focusing on these crucial issues across multiple domains and academic disciplines.
Part 2 - Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women
Date: Wednesday March 22, 2023 | 12PM-1:30PM (Eastern Time)
Format: Via Zoom
Description: This panel brings together legislators and scholars who study the creation of firearm laws to understand how state and federal governments create firearm policy. Topics to be discussed include when laws are too vague, who fills the gaps, what laws have been effective, and what happens when people in power do not want to comply with the law.
Panelists:
US Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Congressman, Rhode Island’s First Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives
Gretta Gardner, Esq., Chief Legal Officer, Ujima Inc., The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
Lisa Geller, Director of State Affairs, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
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Moderator: Professor Kaitlin Sidorsky (Coastal Carolina University)
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Mar
23
M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP: "Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being"12:30pm
M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP: "Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being"
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Virtual
Jeffrey Proulx, PhD, Brown University
March 23, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
“Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being: Results from the IndigenousMIND Project”
Dr. Proulx’s work focuses on the development of mindfulness programs in underserved communities and how these programs may be protective for health in those communities. His efforts bridge Native American and African-American traditional contemplative and healing practices and mainstream mindfulness practices and how mindfulness affects resilience and well-being across a person's developmental trajectory. Dr. Proulx’s work includes studying changes in physiological markers, such as cortisol or blood sugar levels, their relationship to stress and how responses to stress earlier in life may affect health later in life. Stress in minority communities is also influenced by historical and cultural traumas and his work is designed to address the loss of culture and traditions by relying on community input to assimilate community strengths and traditions that are already “mindful” into the mindfulness intervention. The goals of these interventions reflect the distinct cultures of the people he works with and affect health disparities in conditions such as diabetes and dementia. Dr. Proulx is recognized as a developmental health psychologist and his work integrates other disciplines including public health, medicine, molecular biology, and lifecourse sociology.
View the upcoming series, access RSVP's, and watch archived lectures: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series-2/ -
Mar
29
InCHIP/CSCH: Managing the Demands of Scholarship: Balancing Well-Being and Productivity12:00pm
InCHIP/CSCH: Managing the Demands of Scholarship: Balancing Well-Being and Productivity
Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Storrs Campus SOB, rm 321 or Virtually
InCHIP and the Center for School and Child Health Hybrid Event
Managing the Demands of Scholarship: Balancing Well-Being and Productivity
Join us for a chance to network (in-person or online) with scholars in the field of school and child health. This event is specifically designed for early career professionals and graduate students to learn about strategies to foster resilience as early career academics.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | 12 PM – 1 PM
School of Business, Room 321
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Join Virtually
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Apr
6
InCHIP Lecture: Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, "Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions for Obesity and Diabetes in Clinical Care Settings"12:30pm
InCHIP Lecture: Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, "Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions for Obesity and Diabetes in Clinical Care Settings"
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Webex
Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Northwell Health
April 6, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
"Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions for Obesity and Diabetes in Clinical Care Settings"
Dr. Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Health System Science and Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health. Her background is in clinical health psychology and behavioral medicine. Dr. Fitzpatrick has over a decade of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating behavioral interventions for obesity and chronic disease prevention and management in clinical and community-based settings. Her work particularly focuses on strategies to combine behavioral and social health interventions to address social needs and promote health equity. She has served as the Pl or Co-I on several NIH and PCORl-funded grants. Her most recent work, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), included a natural experiment with a mixed methods approach to evaluate the implementation of the Diabetes Prevention Program in a large, integrated health system as well as Bridge to Health/ Puente a la Salud, a randomized trial to test the effectiveness of a combined behavioral and social health intervention led by community health workers to improve diabetes management and related outcomes among a racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic marginalized patient population. Dr. Fitzpatrick is the Director of Research, Evaluation, and Strategic Implementation for the ADA-recognized DECIDE diabetes self-management support program. She also currently serves on the Oregon Health Authority's Metrics and Scoring Committee, determining statewide population health quality measure
View the upcoming series, access RSVP's, and watch archived lectures: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series-2/ -
Apr
13
Webinar: Doing Research with LGBTQ+ Populations12:00pm
Webinar: Doing Research with LGBTQ+ Populations
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Storrs Campus Webex
Webinar: Doing Research with LGBTQ+ Populations
Presenter: Lindsay Palmer, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Dr. Sherry Pagoto
When: Thursday, April 13th, 12:00PM Eastern
Details: This webinar will provide an overview of best practices and demographic style questions for research with LGBTQ+ populations.
Register Here: https://mhealth.inchip.uconn.edu/training-2-2/
