Seminars in Public Health

Schedule for Spring 2007 (Adobe PDF file, 142 kb)

Driving directions

• The Lyceum Conference Center - 227 Lawrence Street, Hartford, CT 06106
• CT Department of Public Health - 410 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106

For Spring 2007, disability issues and policy is the focus topic.

1. “HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities”
   Leila Monaghan, Ph.D.
   Course Director, Department of Communication and Culture,
   Indiana University
   Dr. Monaghan has done extensive work with deaf communiities.
2. POSTPONED due to inclement weather. RESCHEDULED for April 23.
   “When People Care Enough to Act: Mobilizing Communities for Action”
   Mike Green
   Asset Based Community Development, Denver, CO
   Mike Green works throughout North America on the practical questions of organizing community partnerships that really work. It takes both effective programs and powerful organized people to solve most community problems today. His work focuses on applying organizing to the practice of building social networks.
3. “Population Trends and Implications for Public Health Policy”
   Glenn T. Fujiura, Ph.D.,
   Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
   Department of Disabilities and Human Development, University of Illinois at ChicagoDr. Fujiura's research interests converge on the use of demographics and epidemiology as policy analysis tools in disability. Recent work focuses on issues of poverty, risk, family policy, the intersection of race and ethnicity and disability, and on the statistical surveillance of disability.
4. “Using the Emerging Disability Policy Framework to
   Support Community-based Systems Change Initiatives”
   Robert Silverstein, J.D.,
   Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy,
   Washington, D.C.
   Bobby Silverstein is a nationally recognized attorney with over 30 years experience negotiating and drafting bipartisan, consensus landmark legislation. He recently conducted action research on the  relationship between disability policy and welfare reform (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and assisted staff  members and federal policymakers in the Department of Health and Human Services to draft policy guidelines.
    
5. “People with Disabilities and Health Quality”
   Lisa Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
   Professor, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA
   Dr. Iezzoni has conducted numerous studies on a variety of topics, including evaluating methods for predicting costs, clinical outcomes, and substandard quality of care including evaluating methods for predicting costs, clinical outcomes, and substandard quality of care. She has published and spoken widely on risk adjustment for measuring health care outcomes. A 1996 recipient of the Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she is studying health policy issues relating to persons with disabilities. Her book When Walking Fails was published in the spring 2003.