March 6, 2008
Lecture: Robert Temple
3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
School of Public Health Rosenau Auditorium
Robert Temple, MD, is the director of the Office of Medical Policy of Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and acting director of the Office of Drug Evaluation I, which is responsible for the regulation of cardio-renal, neuropharmacologic and psychopharmacologic drug products. The talk is sponsored by the School’s UNC Center for Innovative Clinical Trials. A reception will follow the event at 5 p.m. in the Research Center’s atrium. Register now (or get more information).
March 17, 2008
Speaker: Michael Neidorff
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Michael Hooker Research Center
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation Auditorium
Michael Neidorff, CEO of Centene, a Medicaid managed care firm, will give a lecture as part of the School of Public Health Distinguished Visitors Program. A reception will follow in the Research Center atrium. For more information, contact Jerry Salak at (919) 966-0198.
March 26, 2008
Seminar: Interdisciplinary Obesity Center
11 a.m. – 12 noon
School of Public Health Rosenau Auditorium
The Interdisciplinary Obesity Center will sponsor a seminar by Boyd Swinburn, MD, chairman of the population health program at Deakin University, and president of the Australasian Society for Study of Obesity. Swinburn, an internationally renowned endocrinologist and public health researcher, will speak on “The Methodological Challenges of Whole-of-community Intervention Projects for Obesity Prevention.” For more information, contact Frances Dancy at (919) 966-2155.
March 28, 2008
Program on Health Outcomes Seminar
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Michael Hooker Research Center
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation Auditorium
The Program on Health Outcomes Seminar will feature Professor Jeff Alexander of the University of Michigan. His talk is titled “A Review and Critique of Quality Improvement Research and Its Implications for Practice.”
School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.
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