InCHIP 2015 - 2016 Lecture Series | Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP)

Location: All lectures take place in the J. Ray Ryan Building at 2006 Hillside Road at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. For directions and maps, click here. Please note the specific room number for each lecture.

RSVP: For each lecture InCHIP will send reminders, which include requests for RSVPs, through the InCHIP-L listserv. To subscribe, click here. Any questions regarding the lecture series, please contact lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu.

Webcast: LIVE: The InCHIP Lectures Series can be viewed via a live web stream by clicking on the webcast “play button” for the selected talk.

ARCHIVED: If you missed the live webcast, use the same button to access the archived video, available by the afternoon of the next business day.

This activity is made possible with support from the Office of the Vice President of Research and various UConn and UConn Health Schools, Departments and Centers.

NOTE: This semester we will now be offering lectures on Monday. These will be denoted by an orange background!

We are still adding additional lectures. Please check back frequently for the most up-to-date schedule!

The entire 2015-2016 InCHIP Lecture Series is co-sponsored by very generous contributions from the following:

UConn Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy
UConn College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
UConn Department of Communication
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health

Completed Lectures

Monday, 9/14/15

Speaker: Howard Leventhal, PhD, Rutgers University

Lecture title: “Modelling Health Behavior In Daily Life (CSM)”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 9/24/15

Speaker: Janet Tomiyama, PhD, UCLA

Lecture title: “Stress, Eating, and Biobehavioral Effects of Low-Calorie Dieting”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 10/1/15

Speaker: Mark Weist, PhD, University of South Carolina

Lecture title: “Interconnecting School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Support”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 10/8/15

Speaker: Alice Ammerman, DrPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lecture title: “Heart Healthy Lenoir: A multi-level CVD risk reduction intervention in the stroke belt”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 10/15/15

Speaker: Jennifer Stinson, PhD, CPNP, University of Toronto

Lecture title: “Improving Child Health Outcomes: Harnessing Electronic and Mobile Health Technologies”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 11/5/15

Speaker: Melissa Riddle, PhD, NIH

Lecture title: “Funding for Behavioral and Social Research: Finding New Partners and Opportunities”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Monday, 11/16/15

Speaker: Rivet Amico, PhD, University of Michigan

Lecture title: “Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: Research, Implementation & Advocacy”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 12/3/15

Speaker: Gregory A. Aarons, PhD, University of California

Lecture title: “Facilitating Leadership and Organizational Change for Evidence-Based Practice Implementation”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 1/21/16

Speaker: James W Pennebaker, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Lecture title: “Current State of the Art About the Expressive Writing Methods & Health”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 1/28/16

Speaker: Christine Gidycz, PhD, Ohio University

Lecture title: “Sexual Violence: A Major Public Health Problem”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 2/18/16

Speaker: Josh Smyth, PhD, Penn State

Lecture title: “Real-time Ambulatory Assessment and Intervention”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 2/25/16

Speaker: Ki Chon, PhD, University of Connecticut

Lecture title: “Sensors and Wearable Devices for Vital Sign, Atrial Fibrillation and Underwater ECG Monitoring”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 3/10/16

Speaker: Seth Noar, PhD, University of North Carolina

Lecture title: “The Impact of Cigarette Pack Warnings”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 3/24/16

Speaker: Elsie M. Taveras, PhD, Mass General Hospital for Children & Harvard Medical School

Lecture title: “Improving Childhood Obesity Management – Learning & Applying Best Practices of Positive Outliers”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Monday, 4/4/16

Speaker: Alessio Fasano, PhD, Harvard

Lecture title: “Celiac Disease Genomic, Environmental, Microbiome and Metabolomic Study: A Paradigm of Multi-omics in Autoimmune Diseases”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in InCHIP Colloquium Room (1st Floor)

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Thursday, 4/7/16

Speaker: Dolores Albarracín, PhD, University of Illinois

Lecture title: “Online Information and HIV in US Counties: Theory Testing and Prediction?”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 4/14/16

Bio-CHIP Lecture Subseries

Speaker: Stephen Intille, PhD, Northeastern University

Lecture Title: “Measuring Behavior and Motivating Health Behavior Change Using Mobile Technology: Opportunities and (Difficult) Challenges”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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Thursday, 4/28/16

Speaker: Julie Wagner, PhD, UConn Health Center

Lecture title: “Diabetes, Culture and Mental Health in Vulnerable Populations”

Lecture time and location: 12:30-1:30pm in Room 204 (2nd Floor)

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