[Brownbag] School of Public Health Brown Bag Presentations - March 31 and April 7

[Monique Marie VERRIER]

Dear Demography Brown Bag Community,
Please find below information about the School of Public Health upcoming
virtual Brown Bag Presentations. Anyone is welcome to join.

Monique


Zoom Link:
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*March 31 Ann Keller, Associate Professor of Health Politics*
*Turning Off the Tap: New Strategies Undermining Science for Public Health
   *
11:30am-12:30pm
 Social Scientists have documented multiple strategies used to weaken
scientific research especially where such research supports public health
oriented regulation. These include “bending science” to generate a
literature that finds fewer public health harms, sowing doubt about any
studies that do find harm, and shifting the membership of federal science
advisory boards to increase the number of industry-funded scientists
serving in those roles. A more recent strategy--discontinuing federal
funding for scientific research altogether—has been added to the mix and
offers a much less expensive way to achieve similar policy ends.  To
establish the significance of what I call “turning off the tap,” I explore
the longstanding partnership between the federal government and academic
science and show how progressives and conservatives, even though they
disagreed on policy outcomes, tended to approach conflicts over science in
ways that bolstered the state-science partnership.

Ann Keller is Associate Professor of Health Politics at the University of
California, Berkeley School of Public Health.  Keller holds a PhD in
political science and studies the role of expertise in public
decision-making, focusing on how expert systems are designed in the public
sector and how expertise is maintained in contested political domains.
Before joining the UC Berkeley faculty, Keller completed a postdoctoral
fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research
Program. Keller is currently working on a book that examines a new phase in
partisanship over funding and application of scientific research to guide
federal regulations to protect health.  In addition, she is principal
investigator of an NSF-funded study of how regulatory agencies are
responding to CRISPR/Cas-9 and automated vehicle technologies.

*April 7 Sandi McCoy, Associate Professor of Epidemiology*
*Why social distancing can slow SARS-CoV-2: Insights from infectious
disease epidemiology *
11:30am-12:30pm
 Social distancing is a risk reduction measure to interrupt the spread of
an infectious agent and is defined as “remaining out of congregate
settings, avoiding mass gatherings, and maintaining distance (approximately
6 feet or 2 meters) from others when possible.” Globally, numerous cities,
states and countries have enacted policies recommending or requiring social
distancing strategies in order to slow the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. McCoy
will use insights from infectious disease epidemiology to explain the
rationale behind these recommendations and why some believe that social
distancing is the best available strategy to interrupt transmission.

Sandra McCoy is an Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology at
the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) School of Public
Health. She studies how social, economic, and cultural forces influence
disease transmission and health outcomes. During the past several years,
Dr. McCoy has explored these relationships through the lens of HIV
infection and reproductive health. Using a diverse array of approaches, her
goal is to identify innovative, cost-effective, and scalable strategies to
overcome global health challenges. Dr. McCoy has an MPH from the University
of Michigan and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. At UC Berkeley, Dr. McCoy teaches introduction to
epidemiologic methods and co-teaches a course on the epidemiology and
control of infectious diseases.





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*Lauren Heim Goldstein, PhD*
*Director of Research Development*
*lhg at berkeley.edu <lhg at berkeley.edu>*
*School of Public Health, 2121 Berkeley Way, 5402, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360*
https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/



-- 
Monique Verrier
Graduate Student Services Advisor
Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
Ph: 510-459-0110 (cell phone)
Hours: Monday and Tuesday 9-5, Wednesday 9-3
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