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UC San Diego Institute for Public Health - Faculty Presentations in Public Health and Strategic Meeting

The UC San Diego Institute for Public Health invites you to its second strategic meeting and dynamic seminar featuring UC San Diego guest speakers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Department of Pediatrics, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Department of Bioengineering.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015
3:00pm - 5:00pm
UC San Diego School of Medicine Campus
Leichtag Building, Room 107

Please RSVP to vsaddler@ucsd.edu by Friday, April 17, 2015.
Visit our website at http://publichealth.ucsd.edu

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will speak on population, poverty, environment degradation and public health.

Sheila Gahagen, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Child Development and Community Health, will speak on early life factors and cardiovascular risk as related to public health.

Larry Smarr, PhD, Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, will speak on novel human microbiome surveillance diagnostics to support public health.

Todd P. Coleman, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, will speak on neuroscience and bioelectronics as related to public health.

A panel discussion with the speakers, questions from the audience, and a brief wrap-up will follow the presentations.

Refreshments will be provided at a reception following the meeting for team building and further discussion and networking.

We hope you can join us on April 21, 2015!

Bess H. Marcus, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Senior Associate Dean for Public Health UC San Diego Health Sciences