University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health's Center For Health Promotion Research

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Commercial Determinants of Health: data, digital spaces and misinformation

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Challenging Public Health: Seye Abimbola.

Our Challenging Public Health series invites leading thinkers to reflect on public health, to ask what is being done well and what should be done better. This conversation features Dr. Seye Abimbola, a health systems researcher from Nigeria and a senior lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Abimbola advocates strongly for equity in health outcomes within and between countries.

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The Threat to Trans Rights and the Public’s Health

The past few years have seen the proposal and enactment of a range of laws that challenge the human rights of the LGBTQ+ community, and particularly transgender people. This calls on public health to affirm a central truth, that there can be no health without respect for the dignity and basic rights of all populations. This conversation will address the current attacks on transgender populations, the active threats to those working to support these populations, and how we as a public health community can continue to promote the health and rights of transgender people.

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Centering Disability in the Public Health Agenda.

Public health aims to create conditions so that all populations flourish and live fully realized lives. How do we ensure that we keep the concerns of persons with disabilities—visible and invisible—front and center in the public health conversation? What should be our priorities for public health to center the concerns of disabled populations in our work?

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Challenging Public Health: Ian Rowe.

Our Challenging Public Health series invites speakers from outside of public health to reflect on public health, to ask what is being done well and what should be done better. This conversation features Ian Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies. Mr. Rowe writes extensively about education, housing issues, family formation and adoption. His latest book Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power was published in May 2022.

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The Resilience of Cities: Where We Work, Live, and Play

Almost 80% of the US population currently live in cities. This increase in urban populations places a greater demand on city resources – housing, transportation, reliable employment. How do you build a city that is sustainable, inclusive and centered around community needs? By putting public health at the center of the planning process, cities can find a sustainable solution to build a resilient community.

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Centering the Health of Mothers in the Public Health Agenda

Approximately 4 million women give birth each year in the U.S. Yet, traditional public health approaches have continued to consider maternal and child health together. How do we put the needs of mothers at the heart of public health? And how do we ensure attention to the health of all persons who give birth?

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Challenging Public Health: Reverend Liz Theoharis.

Our Challenging Public Health series invites speakers from outside of public health to reflect on the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This conversation features Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Rev. Theoharis persistently fights against “economic injustice “and firmly believes that all Christians have a responsibility to end poverty once and for all.

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Abolition, Incarceration, and the Public’s Health.

The United States is the most incarcerated nation in the world. Decades of harmful policies have led to overcrowded prisons and a broken criminal justice system, leading to prison populations that are disproportionately poor and people of color. Recently, the issue of prison reform has been gaining national attention, forcing policymakers to rethink the issue. As momentum grows to call for change, how does public health play a role in ending mass incarceration and reforming a criminal justice system?

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Towards Antiracist Academic Institutions: Next Steps.

How can we create a more inclusive and just environment within our academic institutions? What kind of policies can be introduced to ensure that these institutions continue to uphold these ideals?

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The Fortune Men.

Each year BUSPH hosts “SPH Reads”, a community wide reading program hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ). It aims to encourage critical thought and discussion among all members of the BUSPH community and is centered on a carefully chosen, thought-provoking book. The Fall 2022 selection is “The Fortune Men” by Nafida Mohamed. Nafida Mohamed is an award-winning Somali-British novelist.  The Fortune Men, her third novel, is based on the true story of Mahmood Mattan, a petty criminal in Cardiff, Wales, wrongfully convicted of murder in 1952.  The book was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize in 2021.

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Monkeypox, old disease, new fears.

This program will explore the importance of stopping the spread of monkeypox without encouraging the spread of stigma. Speakers will address both the epidemiological and social challenges posed by the disease, including what we can learn from past disease outbreaks and from the COVID pandemic. As the country grapples with how best to address monkeypox, there is little doubt that doing so requires both an effective public health response and a clear eye on the challenges of stigma that can readily emerge around the disease.

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