Registration for the 2022 event has closed. Stay tuned for details on the next Research Exchange.
The ColoradoSPH Research Exchange will bring the Colorado School of Public Health community together in person. This event is a chance to celebrate the great work of our colleagues, share and trade ideas, and build bridges across departments, units, and campuses. Faculty and students from all three of our universities—CU Anschutz, CSU, and UNC—and community partners who share our dedication to public health are invited to participate in this half-day event.
Programming will include:
Time | Activity |
8:00-8:15am | Breakfast |
8:15-9:15am | Opening remarks; Keynote Address |
9:15-9:35am | Student Poster Session |
9:35-10:35am | Lightning/Panel Discussions
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10:35-10:45am | Break |
10:45-11:45am | Lightning/Panel Discussions
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11:45am-12:35pm | Academic Public Health Careers Panel |
12:35-1:35pm | Student Q&A session during lunch Lunch |
1:35-2:00pm | Optional student tour for undergrads |
Alonzo Plough, PhD, MPH, was appointed Vice President for Research and Evaluation and Chief Science Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in January 2014. RWJF is one of the largest private funders of health and health care research in the nation with the aim of producing evidence that policy-makers and practitioners can use to build a culture of health. One of the cornerstones of RWJF’s mission is the support and evaluation of ground-breaking research aimed at solving the most pressing health issues facing Americans. Dr. Plough came to RWJF from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, where he served as director of emergency preparedness and response from 2009 to 2014. In that role, he was responsible for the leadership and management of the public health preparedness activities protecting the 10 million residents of Los Angeles County from natural disasters and threats related to disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. He coordinated activities in emergency operations, infectious disease control, risk communication, planning and community engagement. Prior to that position, Plough served as vice president of strategy, planning and evaluation for The California Endowment from 2005-2009. He was responsible for the leadership of The Endowment’s strategic planning and development, evaluation, research and organizational learning. Dr. Plough also served 10 years as director and health officer for the Seattle and King County Department of Public Health, and professor of health services at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle. He previously served as director of public health in Boston for eight years. Dr. Plough earned his PhD and MA at Cornell University, and his MPH at Yale University School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. He did his undergraduate work at St. Olaf College, where he earned a BA. He has held academic appointments at Harvard University School of Public Health, Tufts University Department of Community Medicine, and Boston University School of Management. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for public service and leadership and is the author of an extensive body of scholarly articles, books, and book chapters.
Name | Poster title |
Blair Weikel | Defining an Infant's Race and Ethnicity: A Systematic Review |
Karli Swenson | Marijuana for morning sickness: How, when, and where pregnant people receive information about safety or risk of consuming cannabis |
Nicole Reed | Does social media have a place in community-based participatory research? Lessons learned from a mobile health project with urban American Indian/Alaska Native young women |
Karen Kanaster | Exploring Author Roles in Biomedical Publication Networks Using Interactive Visualization |
Connor Elkhill | Age-dependent machine learning model improves head shape characterization and enables longitudinal evaluation of patients with craniosynostosis |
Wenru Zhou | Building the Foundation for More Flexible A/B Testing: Applications of Interim Monitoring to Large Scale Data |
Ying Jin | Visual Interactive Model Selection in Context-Driven Team Science |
Jessica Wild | Upstrapping To Determine Futility: Predicting Future Outcomes From Past Data |
Rifei Liang | Assessing the Accuracy of Primary Payer Information in Cancer Registry Data: the Colorado Experience |
Danielle Demateis | Distributed Lag Interaction Model: Birth Weight and Maternal Exposure to Air Pollution |
Hannah Kisselburgh | Food Safety and Kitchen Inspections in Long-Term Care Facilities in Colorado |
Eric Prince | Modeling and Visualizing Uncertainty in AI Diagnosis of Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma from Preoperative MRI |
Ying Jin | Visual Interactive Model Selection in Context-Driven Team Science: Pulmonary Case Studies |
Elise Grover | A geospatial analysis comparing the predictive capacity of malacological survey data to remotely sensed environmental data for predicting household Schistosoma japonicum infection in rural China |
Ruqoyat Abdulsalam | The Relationship between Social Determinants of Health and Potentially Preventable Hospitalization among American Indian and Alaska Native Older Adults with and without Dementia |
Mika Hamer | The Effect of Medicare Annual Wellness Visits on Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis |
Yisha Li | Metformin is associated with protective effect of emphysema progression in smokers |
Lauren Vanderlinden | Association of Lipid Mediator Profile Trajectories and Development of Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis in a High Risk, Anti-citrullinated Protein Antibody Positive Population |
Maggie Reid | The effects of hospital acquisitions on the availability of unprofitable services |
Kyla Hagan-Haynes and Virginia McCarthy | Caring for the Educator: Work mistreatment and well-being among early childhood education staff in Colorado |
Weixuan Liu | Sparse Generalized Tensor Canonical Correlation Analysis for Multi-omics Network Inference with Application to COPD Data |
Lyndsay Krisher | Individual and household determinants of renal insufficiency among Guatemalan agricultural workers |
Michael Haverkate | Assessment of Antimicrobial Prescription in Veterinary Telemedicine Appointments |
Kirk Hohsfield | Evaluating Data Product Exposure Metrics for Use in Epidemiologic Studies of Dust Storms |
Kylie K. Harrall | Joint effect of exposure to maternal gestational diabetes in utero and genetic predisposition on markers of glycemia in offspring. |
As technology rapidly evolves in the modern world, ethical issues around the collection and use of data begin to emerge. The Big Data Ethics Panel will discuss examples where these questions arise, such as:
Susan Moore, PhD, MSPH
Associate Director, mHealth Impact Lab
mHealth & Informatics
Core Lead, ACCORDS
Research Program Director, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Colorado School of Public Health
Katerina Kechris, PhD
Professor
Department of Biostatistics
and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health
Associate Director of Data Science, Center for Innovative Design and Analysis
Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine
Center for Health AI
University of Colorado
School of Medicine
Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Humanities
and Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine, University of Colorado
Katrina Claw, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
We have seen devastating escalation in the impacts of climate change in the past several decades. The World Health Organization calls climate change “the biggest health threat facing humanity,” the American Medical Association adopted a new policy declaring climate change as “a public health crisis,” and the National Institutes of Health considers climate change a top priority in research funding. The Climate Change and Health panel will highlight various approaches to research and engagement on the impacts of climate change on public health. The panel will look at community-engaged research on climate stressors, such as drought, air quality, wildfires, and heat with a focus on populations experiencing the impacts now including rural communities, outdoor workers, children, and aging populations. We will highlight innovative methods in statistical modeling and big data, translation of research into clinical care, and training and education of the next generation of climate health researchers at the School of Public Health.
From COVID-19 to Dengue, models have been used to describe the spread of emerging infectious diseases and inform public health responses. In this panel, we will discuss how approaches from a range of disciplines, from economics to biostatistics to epidemiology, can be used to improve our understanding of infectious diseases. Panelists will discuss…
ColoradoSPH encourages innovative approaches to the research of public health. The New Methods in Public Health Panel highlights novel approaches utilized and studied by our faculty. The approaches that will be covered in this session range from:
The Social Justice Panel will explore both distributive and procedural justice in the context of health research and impact. Domestically and internationally, investments in health and actions taken to support health are centering justice. This panel will focus on local to global examples of research that inform such investments and actions, addressing questions like: How do we define, characterize, and understand disparities in health burdens among disparate populations? How do we get from the problems we diagnose to effective solutions? How do those solutions deliver impact and engage communities and stakeholders in substantive, sustainable ways? Panelists will include scholars at the forefront of building capacity for addressing historical and ongoing social and environmental health disparities. These interdisciplinary experts work through community-engaged frameworks and will consider the tasks necessary to engage meaningfully with communities and stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of research.
Both undergraduate students and current public health graduate students are welcome to attend this Student Q&A panel, which consists of school leadership and current students. Undergraduates can ask about careers in public health and about the educational programs offered by the school, including the certificate, masters, and doctoral programs. Current certificate and masters program students can ask about moving onto higher degree programs. The panel will be held during lunch, so participants and students can grab food and head to this informal and informative panel discussion.
Ned Calonge, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice
Associate
Professor
Center for Public Health Practice
Department of Epidemiology
Colorado School of Public Health
Dani Brittain, PhD
Associate Dean for Academic & Student Affairs
Professor
Department of Community & Behavioral Health
Colorado School of Public Health
Jon Samet, MD, MS
Dean and Professor
Colorado School of Public Health
Mika Hamer, PhD, MPH
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Center for Bioethics and Humanities
University of Colorado
Dayana Leyva, CHES
MPH in Health Systems, Management & Policy Student
Colorado School of Public Health
Post-Award Specialist
Department of Surgery, CU Anschutz Medical Campus