Annual Occupational, Environmental and Public Health Conference at Semiahmoo Resort

The focus of January 5 and 6 will be on Environmental Health, and will feature Dr. Kirk Smith from the University of California at Berkeley. The Public Health portion will take place on January 6 and 7 and will feature health economist Dr. Bob Evans. Attendees can register for the full conference or for part of the conference (the environmental health [January 5-6] or public health portion [January 6-7]).

Information and registration materials available at http://sph.washington.edu/phc/

Anne Martin-Matthews, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
University of British Columbia

Abstract:
This presentation will place the aging of Canada's population in international context. It will consider implications of population aging for health services and systems (especially in relation to cognitive impairment, mobility in aging, and home care); and it will address the research opportunities of more longitudinal lenses and emerging scientific perspectives.

About the Speaker:
Anne Martin-Matthews has recently completed two terms (2004-2011) as the Scientific Director of the Institute of Aging, one of 13 national Institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Since coming to UBC in 1998, she has held positions as Associate Dean Research, Associate Dean Strategic Initiatives, and Dean pro tem in the Faculty of Arts. She has been a member of the Department of Sociology since 2008.

Professor Martin-Matthews’ publications include two books, Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life: Blurring the Boundaries; Widowhood in Later Life; three edited volumes (on methodology; policy development; and Canadian gerontology in international context); and over 140 papers on health and social care, aging and social support, work - family balance, and rural aging. She is President of the Research Committee on Aging of the International Sociological Association (2010-2014). A former Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal on Aging (1996-2000), she is a member of the editorial boards of Ageing and Society (UK), the Journal of Aging Studies (US), the Policy Press (UK) series on ‘Ageing and the Life Course’ and the Advisory Board for the Sage Handbook of Interview Research (2nd edition).

She is a Fellow of the (U.S.) Gerontological Society of America and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She holds a Distinguished Alumnus Award from McMaster University; a Commemorative Medal for the
Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, awarded by the Canadian Association on Gerontology; and an Honorary Degree in Civil Law from Newcastle University (UK). As of December 2011, she has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

Please join us on Thursday, January 12, 2012 for International Child Rights Monitoring Symposium, an event hosted by the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP).

The symposium will feature an introduction by Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Director, HELP and a presentation by Dr. Ziba Vahgri, Director, International Research & Initiatives Program, HELP. It will include an introduction to, and demonstration of, a new Child Rights Monitoring tool developed by HELP and international partners including UNICEF and the World Health Organization. This event will be of interest to all child rights stakeholders.

Registration is now available. For more information and to register, please visit: http://bit.ly/tPlsaF.

Maternal Child Health - MCH Seminar 2012

“Fear of Childbirth Among Young Canadians”
Presenter: Kathrin Stoll

1. Presentation
2. Conferences
3. Upcoming funding opportunities

PHP Theme Meeting has been confirmed for Thursday, January 12, 2012 starting at 4:00pm. The meeting will take place in room B104 at the School of Population and Public Health. Please find attached to this email the Agenda and relevant documents

Students, Faculty and Staff are invited to join in as we present the movie Contagion on the big screen in the SPPH lobby. Bring your own snacks... and some to share!
Movie: Contagion

In this presentation the following will be reviewed
* Review causes of pregnancy related death and disability in women globally
* Consider the social and cultural context impacting equity in access to Maternal Child Health
* Describe progress to date in meeting Health MDGs and the role of partnership
* Review opportunities to prevent tragedies in women’s and children's health

Presenter: Dorothy Shaw, Vice President, Medical Affairs, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre; Clinical Professor, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UBC

Presenter: Glenys Webster, PhD
Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Presenter: Grand Chief Doug Kelly

Bio
Grand Chief Doug Kelly is married, with a blended family of six adult children, he resides on the Soowahlie Indian Reserve located near Cultus Lake, BC.

He is a founding member, elected Tribal Chief, and Treasurer of the Stó:lô Tribal Council. Doug advocates for health, children & family services, fisheries, Aboriginal Title and Rights. In addition to being a regionally appointed member of the First Nations Heath Council, Kelly was appointed Chair in 2010. The First Nations Health Council is responsible to design and deliver a community-driven Governance Structure for First Nations Health as well as overseeing the delivery of health action items identified in the Tripartite First Nations Health Plan.

Grand Chief Doug Kelly has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience. His leadership background includes: two years with the First Nations Summit Political Executive, 4 years as Treasurer for the Stó:lô Tribal Council, eight years as Soowahlie Chief, 2 years on the Stó:lô Nation Executive, and 2 years with the BC Treaty Commission. He also has 13 years in senior management positions. He worked for the First Nations Chiefs’ Health Committee, Stó:lô Nation, and Stó:lô Tribal Council. Doug led the development of Stó:lô Health Transfer, Stó:lô Child Welfare, and other programs including fisheries and economic development.

SPPH Faculty Meeting

Presenter: Erna van Balen, MSc, M.Phil
National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health

SPPH will be ordering in Chinese food, and invites students, faculty and staff to join in the celebration.

Vegetarian options will be provided

$7.00 per person (payable in advance). Sign up at SPPH Reception

You MUST RSVP by Friday, January 20

Howard P. Greenwald, School of Policy, Planning, and Development University of Southern California
UBC CHSPR Public Seminar
Tuesday, January 24 at 12:00 pm
491 – 2206 East Mall (Library Processing Centre), UBC

This talk will address four interrelated areas: (1) the degree to which the recent Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has reformed the US health care system; (2) the extent to which the system actually needed (or still needs) reform; (3) the factors that inhibit actual reform; (4) conditions under which reform might take place.

Howard P. Greenwald, Ph.D., has research interests in public policy, health services, evaluation research, public opinion, and organizational management. He has served as director of USC's Health Services Administration Program, chairman of the Western Network for Education in Health Administration, and commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. He has made major contributions to research on health care delivery and socioeconomic disparities in health status and treatment outcomes. Recent books include The United States Health Care System: Organization, Management, and Policy (Jossey-Bass, 2010), Organizations: Management Without Control (Sage, 2008), and Health For All: Making Community Collaboration Work (Health Administration Press, 2003). His book, Who Survives Cancer? (University of California Press, 1992), reports the results of a ten-year survival study. Other work includes articles in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (J-PART), Public Administration Review, Journal of the American Public Health Association, Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, and several medical journals. He has an extensive consulting practice in program evaluation, policing, and medical/legal issues.

Join us for a discussion on the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on climate, how long these effects will persist, and what needs to be done to limit global warming to safe levels. Learn how to reduce climate change and become healthier by doing so, and hear about the world’s first (cost, barrier, advertisement, and carbon) free university (NextGenU.org), and its training on climate change and health.

What: Limit Climate Change and Stay Healthy by Drs. Kirsten Zickfeld, SFU and Erica Frank, UBC

When: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Where: Rm C130, UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC

Register: www.limitclimatechange.eventbrite.ca (free of charge and open to the public)

Live Web Stream: www.pics.uvic.ca/events.php



Dr. Kirsten Zickfeld is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography in the Faculty of Environment at SFU, and an adjunct professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UVic. She is a climate scientist with a particular interest in anthropogenic climate change. Her current research focuses on the interactions between climate and the carbon cycle and the century-scale response of the climate system to greenhouse gas emissions. She is also interested in the emissions implications of long-term climate targets such as limiting global mean warming to below 2 °C, a climate target adopted by many countries.

Dr. Erica Frank is a professor in the School of Population and Public Health, and the Department of Family Practice at UBC. Dr. Frank is a Canada Research Chair in Preventive Medicine and Population Health. She specializes in preventive medicine, and her research emphasizes the degree to which a clinician’s positive health habits influence patients’ positive health habits. Dr. Frank is also the Founder and President of Next Generation University (NextGenU.org, the world’s first free university), and Past President (2008) of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

We hope that you can make it, either in person or by accessing our webcast at www.pics.uvic.ca/events.php.

January 26th is International Data Privacy Day

Do you know how the latest changes to FIPPA may impact your research?

Come celebrate International Data Privacy Day 2012 by learning about last November’s changes to FIPPA and how it may impact your research.

Research Implications of the Recent Amendments to BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)

Speaker: Caitlin Pencarrick Hertzman, CIPP/C

Thursday January 26th
12pm – 1pm (feel free to bring your lunch)
LPC 491 (School of Population and Public Health Building)
2206 East Mall, UBC

Caitlin will highlight the most significant changes, speak about recent comments on the
amendments and answer questions you may have about what it means for you.

If you would like to attend please RSVP to: caitlin.hertzman@popdata.bc.ca

Check our website www.popdata.bc.ca regularly to keep up to date.

Ruth Elwood Martin and Mo Korchinski

Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH
Ruth Elwood Martin is a UBC Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, and Associate Faculty, School of Population and Public Health. She is Lead Faculty for Research for the post-graduate family medicine program and Course Director for Doctor Patient and Society 410 (VFMP site). From 1994-2011, Ruth worked part-time as prison physician in provincial correctional centres. She is Director of the Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE), a group of interdisciplinary academics, policy makers, community organizations and men and women with previous incarceration experience, with a mission of enhancing social well-being and (re)integration of individuals in custody, their families and communities. CCPHE activities include developing prison health educational opportunities (for medical students, post-graduate residents, MPH students, and others) and fostering national/international prison health linkages. Ruth’s current community-based participatory research endeavours include a Vancouver Foundation-funded preventive health project with men and women with incarceration experience, who are now living in the community, and a CIHR-funded KT ‘Doing Time-Unlocking the Gates’ with women as they are released from prison.

Mo Korchinski
Mo Korchinski has a long history of substance abuse and incarceration. Mo overcame these obstacles and is now living independently and is engaged in full time studies at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology. Mo volunteers as a community based researcher with Women in2 Healing and works as a research assistant with the Canadian Institute of Health Research funded project “Doing Time Unlocking the Gates”. Mo has 6 years clean and sober and spends most of her spare time helping others in her community. Mo feels that the key to turning one’s life around and keeping it moving in the right direction is to help others turn their lives around. Mo is co-authoring a book called “Arresting Hope” and she has made a documentary “Revolving Door”. She is now filming a TV documentary about women’s release from prison, when the prison gate is unlocked and the doors to society are kept locked. Mo’s passion is to take her experience of addiction and the justice system to get people to see that changes are needed: to get the voices of women who are still inside of prison heard; and, to get policy makers to understand that change is needed in the prison system and in the communities.

Presenter: Kay Teschke, PhD
UBC School of Population and Public Health

Who should attend? Masters students who are preparing to submit their thesis.

Learning Opportunities: Working on your thesis? This session will review the UBC formatting and submission requirements and include:
• Planning ahead
• Thesis formatting requirements
• Electronic submission of theses


Presenters: Kirsten Frankish and Daniel Fritz, whose work includes advising students on thesis preparation and formatting.

Registration: Priority for UBC graduate students registered in the current academic session. No charge for admission, but advance registration is required. Seats are limited.
Please register here

Refreshments: Beverages will be provided. Please bring your own mug.

Applicants will receive confirmation within two working days of the receipt of their e-mail. If you have difficulty with registration, send an email to graduate.pathways@ubc.ca

“AIDING” DEVELOPMENT? THE MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS, FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION
Ashok Kotwal, Department of Economics, UBC
John Hariss, School for International Studies, SFU
Philippe Le Billon, Department of Geography, UBC
Patrick Francois (Moderator), Department of
Economics, UBC
5-6:30 pm, Wednesday, January 30, 2012

Did you know that employers spend an average of 20 seconds reviewing each resume? In those seconds, your resume needs to clearly demonstrate how your education, experience and skills qualify you for the position.
At the 1.5-hour long resume clinic, you will receive a short presentation on resume basics, and then get feedback on your resume and cover letters in a small group setting.

Please bring a paper copy of your resume and/or cover letter as well as a copy of any job posting to which you may be applying. Because students will be working in groups, it is challenging to accommodate laptops during the clinics.

Who will benefit most from this seminar?
Graduate students who are starting or are in the job search process.

You may prepare in advance by reading the resources provided at:
www.students.ubc.ca/careers/students/get-career-guidance/resume-advising/

John Horn, Associate Director of Career Services at UBC, delivers strategic direction and positive energy to UBC's Career Development team, who provide innovative and engaging advising, workshops and faculty-customized programming to over 50,000 students and alumni. As the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Gumboot he collaborates with nearly 30 correspondents from around the world to share stories and best practices about building community. John is also the Web Services Committee Chair for the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC), a Book Reviewer for Activehistory.ca, Co-Founder of The Circle of Literary Judgement, and a Resident Blogger for MyGradGuide.

John will be joined by several colleagues from UBC Career Services.

Note: Beverages will be provided. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MUG.

Registration: Due to limited space, advance registration is required. To register please visit here

Applicants will receive confirmation of their registration status within two working days of the receipt of their e-mail. If you have difficulty with registration, please send an email to graduate.pathways@ubc.ca