"Grand Rounds Focuses on Public Health & Legal Rights
The Institute of Public Health's October Grand Rounds featured Professor of Law in the GSU Center for Law, Health & Society, Dr. Paul A. Lombardo.  Dr. Lombardo discussed the Aiken Leper Case, an anomaly among public health cases, in which deference to local health authorities who act to restrict individual liberties was the norm. For more information on this case, click here.

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"Developmental Disabilities & Child Maltreatment Research & the Fit with Public Health"

John R. Lutzker, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Healthy Development;
visiting Professor of Public Health

Wednesday, Sept 3rd, 2008

Dr. John Lutzker, Director of the new Center for Healthy Development and IPH visiting professor, was the featured speaker at IPH's first Grand Rounds of the 2008-09 academic year.  Dr. Lutzker's talk entitled "Developmental Disabilities & Child Maltreatment Research & the Fit with Public Health" discussed the center's research efforts and collaborations.  For more information on the Center for Healthy Development, click here.

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“Assessing Within-Day Energy Balance as a Strategy for Obesity Reduction”

Dan Benardot, PhD
Department of Nutrition, Georgia State University

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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“Interdisciplinary VIOLENCE Research at Georgia State University”

Panelists
Julia Perilla, PhD, Dept. of Psychology
Lesley Reid, PhD, Dept. of Sociology
Monica Swahn, PhD, Institute of Public Health
Jonathan Todres, JD, College of Law
Volkan Topalli, PhD, Dept. of Criminal Justice

Learn about current VIOLENCE research at GSU and discuss the possibility of future collaborations.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Co-Sponsored by Public Health Institute Student Association

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Dr. Alawode Oladele, Medical Director, county-wide services, DeKalb County Board of Health
Feb 20th, 2008

From 1981 - 2006, nearly 57,000 refugees moved to Georgia from all over the world.  A majority (~65%) of those refugees resettled in DeKalb County, and 90% of those individuals passed through the DeKalb County Board of Health within their first 90 days of being in the US.
 
Dr. Oladele, Medical Director, County Wide Services for the Dekalb Board of Health will be speaking about cross-cultural public health in DeKalb County.

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CURRENT TRENDS IN FOODBORNE DISEASES
January 16, 2008 at 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.

E. coli in your hamburgers, salmonella in tomatoes - what is going on?

The Institute of Public Health presents CURRENT TRENDS IN FOODBORNE DISEASES as part of the Grand Rounds series on January 16th from 12-1pm in the University Center Rm 460. Dr. Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, is one of the most knowledgeable individuals in the world on food borne and waterborne diseases.

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