Zilber College of Public Health Seminar Series

Join us in a forum to hear the latest in the research and practice of public health to support a just, equitable, healthy future for people, communities, and the environment in Milwaukee, the state of Wisconsin, and beyond.

Seminars are held weekly on Thursday mornings from 9:00 – 9:50 a.m., on UWM’s Kenwood campus in the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (KIRC) room 1150 (3135 N. Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211).

Coffee and bagels will be served.

Most seminars can also be attended virtually via Teams.

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Spring 2025

January 23 – Zilber College of Public Health Weekly Seminar – PeriData.Net Clinical Registry: Population-Based Cohort of Prenatal, Hospital, and Outcome Data

January 30 – Power to the People: Evaluation Considerations for Public Health Liberation, Dr. Monique Liston, UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

February 6 – Canceled, will be rescheduled – Mayor Cavalier Johnson, City of Milwaukee

February 13 – Interpretable Fall Risk Prediction Using Explainable AI and Large Language Models, Jake Luo, PhD – Associate Professor, Health Care Informatics & Administration

February 20 – Brittany Keyes, DPT – Healthy Climate Wisconsin

February 27 – Exploring the impact of Mutual Aid on Health and Well-Being of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse People, Linda Wesp, PhD – UWM School of Nursing

March 6 – T(O₂)xicologists: Still wrong after all these years, or…How cell culture methods that do not consider the amount of oxygen present in our body mess up risk assessment and drug discovery, Michael Laoisa, PhD – Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

March 13 – Introduction to EMR and AI in Public Health, Min Wu, PhD – Associate Professor, Health Care Informatics & Administration

March 27 – Victor Florez-Garcia, PhD Zilber College Alum, University of Illinois Chicago

April 3 – What will it take to end campus sexual violence?, Rose Hennessy Garza, PhD, MPH

April 10 – Detecting mosaic chromosomal alterations in apparently healthy individuals, Paul L. Auer, PhD – Medical College of Wisconsin

April 17 – Health/Data Disparities in Indian Country, Will Funmaker, MBA, MLT (ASCP) – Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (GLITEC)

April 24 – The role of Public Health Nurses in Emergency Preparedness and Recovery in Local Public Health Departments – a Toolkit, Deborah Heim, PhD, MN, RN, PHNA-BC

May 1 – Integrating Teaching and Research at a Teaching Institution, Maren Hawkins, PhD and Barbra Beck, PhD

Fall 2024 Schedule

September 12 – Todd Miller

September 19 – Amy Kalkbrenner

September 26 – Linnea Laestadius

October 3 – Langston Verdin, MPH

October 10 – Young Cho

October 17 – Kat O’Connell-Valuch – ZCPH Office of Research

October 24 – Christy Greenleaf

October 31 – Scott Strath

November 7 – Mike Totoraitis, Commissioner of Health, Milwaukee Health Department

November 14 – Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project

November 21 – Tara Jenson

December 5 – David Frazer, Director of CUPH