Events Calendar

Pitt Public Health Events

April 2 - May 1, 2023

Monday, April 3

03 Apr
Dean's Day 2023 - Poster Sessions

Join us for our annual showcase of student research and practice April 3-5. There are six sessions, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m. Check out...

03 Apr
CVD Epidemiology Journal Club

The CVD Epidemiology journal club is a forum for scientific interaction between CVD Epidemiology training program students, collaborating faculty and other...

April 03, 2023 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 4

04 Apr
Dean's Day 2023 - Poster Sessions

Join us for our annual showcase of student research and practice April 3-5. There are six sessions, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m. Check out...

04 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Yusi Fang

"Methods for Combining Frequent or Sparse Signals in Omics Application" - Public Health/Biostatistics, Committee: George Tseng (advisor and committee...

April 04, 2023 9:30 a.m.
04 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Yujia (Susanna) Qiao

Development and Application of a Novel Accelerometry-based Performance Fatigability Index in Older Adults - Public Health/Epidemiology, Committee Nancy...

April 04, 2023 10:00 a.m.
04 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Samhita Ravi

"Time of Infection Affects Outcomes in Patients with Alcoholic Hepatitis” - Public Health/Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Committee: Jeremy Martinson...

April 04, 2023 1:00 p.m.
04 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Wei Zong

"Statistical Modeling for High-dimensional Omics Studies for congruence, Heterogenity and Clustering" - Public Health/Biostatistics, Committee: George...

April 04, 2023 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 5

05 Apr
Dean's Day 2023 - Poster Sessions

Join us for our annual showcase of student research and practice April 3-5. There are six sessions, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m. Check out...

Thursday, April 6

06 Apr
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Journal Club

Intended for graduate students to become familiar with the primary original literature by learning to select, read, analyze, understand, and orally summarize...

April 06, 2023 11:00 a.m.
06 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Dasha Pokutnaya

"Developing and validating a comprehensive implementation framework for reporting reproducible infectious disease computational modeling studies" - PUblic...

April 06, 2023 1:00 p.m.
06 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Yang Ou

Estimation of Causal Treatment Effect for Clustered Observational Data with Unmeasured Confounding - Public Health/Biostatistics, Committee: (Joyce)...

April 06, 2023 1:00 p.m.
06 Apr
Biostatistics Seminar: Novel Presence-Absence Based Methods for Microbiome Data Analysis

Gen Li, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The microorganisms (e.g.,...

April 06, 2023 4:00 p.m.

Friday, April 7

07 Apr
Emerging Latino Communities Conversations

Co-sponsored by the Center for Health Equity (CHE) and Center for Latin American Studies, the Emerging Latino Communities Conversations explore 1) the...

April 07, 2023 10:30 a.m.
07 Apr
Human Genetics Seminar - Nick Nystrom, PhD

Chief Technology Officer, Peptilogics, Inc. Designing Peptide Therapeutics with Generative AI Generative AI is making headlines for transforming the way we...

April 07, 2023 12:00 p.m.
07 Apr
CHE Monthly Journal Club

The Center for Health Equity (CHE) invites all students, faculty, staff, and community members to its April 7 dicussion of the article "No Mental Health...

April 07, 2023 1:00 p.m.
Virtual Event
07 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Pattra Chun-On

“Recurrent TPP1 Promoter Mutations Drive Telomere Maintenance in Melanoma” Committee Members: Patricia Opresko, PhD Aaron Barchowsky, PhD Jonathan...

April 07, 2023 1:00 p.m.
07 Apr
Spring Cathedral

Learning from our students, faculty, and staff, internationally known scientists, practitioners and policymakers on issues of environmental, occupational and...

April 07, 2023 1:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 11

11 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Sarah Minion

"Associations of spatial accessibility to maternity care services and adverse pregnancy outcomes" - Public Health/Epidemiology, Committee Catherine...

April 11, 2023 9:00 a.m.
Virtual Event
11 Apr
Pitt Public Health Building

"Using Implementation Science to Address Healthcare Disparities" Presented by: Shari Rogal, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery Co-Director,...

April 11, 2023 12:00 p.m.
Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 12

12 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Andrea Casas

"The impact of the public housing demolition process on violent crime in Pittsburgh, PA" - Public Health/Epidemiology, Committee: Tom Songer, EPI...

April 12, 2023 9:00 a.m.
12 Apr
Annie Infancia Arockiaraj - Final Dissertation Defense - HUGEN PhD Candidate

Department of Human Genetics Doctoral Candidate, Annie Infancia Arockiaraj, defends her dissertation on “Development of a Mutation-Independent Approach to...

12 Apr
Several holding candles of several colors

Incidents of mass violence often occur without warning and can happen anywhere, impacting entire communities and our country at large. Join us in this...

April 12, 2023 1:00 p.m.
Virtual Event

Thursday, April 13

13 Apr
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Journal Club

Intended for graduate students to become familiar with the primary original literature by learning to select, read, analyze, understand, and orally summarize...

April 13, 2023 11:00 a.m.
13 Apr
Discriminatory Stressors and Early Markers of Cardiovascular Disease: Implications for African-American Women's Health

Sutton-Tyrell Lecture Presented by Tené T. Lewis, president of the American Psychosomatic Society and associate professor at Emory Rollins School of Public...

April 13, 2023 12:00 p.m.
13 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Jian Zou

"Clustering, Biomarker and Cancer Model Selection Using Omics Data" - Public Health/Biostatistics, Committee: George Tseng (advisor and committee...

April 13, 2023 12:30 p.m.

Friday, April 14

14 Apr
Supporting a Peer in Distress

Student well-being is a shared responsibility - one that requires each member of the Pitt community to equip themselves with knowledge and skills to...

April 14, 2023 12:00 p.m.
14 Apr
A group of hikers are offering support to one another as they face towards the edge of a rock outcropping.

It’s no secret that today’s public health workers face more demands than ever before. It is especially important to continue to foster your personal good...

April 14, 2023 12:00 p.m.
Virtual Event

Monday, April 17

17 Apr
CVD Epidemiology Journal Club

The CVD Epidemiology journal club is a forum for scientific interaction between CVD Epidemiology training program students, collaborating faculty and other...

April 17, 2023 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 18

18 Apr
Maternal and Child Health Equity Scholars Meeting

MCH Equity Scholars is a platform for learners and early-career researchers to exchange ideas, network and collaborate on projects related to health equity,...

April 18, 2023 12:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19

19 Apr
Pitt Public Health Council Meeting

The governance activities of the administration and faculty are unified, and all standing committees report to one principal body — The Pitt Public Health...

April 19, 2023 9:00 a.m.
Virtual Event
19 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Bethany Flage

“The role and mechanism of hemoglobin variation in Plasmodium falciparum sexual differentiation” Committee Solomon F. Ofori-Acquah, IDM (advisor) Jeremy...

April 19, 2023 1:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 20

Friday, April 21

21 Apr
CHE Focused Writing Sessions

Let's use the cold months to get ahead on our writing so we can play later! Are you working on class papers, reports, manuscripts, grant proposals, sermons,...

April 21, 2023 9:00 a.m.
Virtual Event
21 Apr
Human Genetics Seminar - Michael Deem, PhD

Associate Professor, Human Genetics; Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics & Health Law; Director, Consortium Ethics Program, Dept. of Medicine; Resident...

April 21, 2023 12:00 p.m.

Friday, April 28

28 Apr
CHE Focused Writing Sessions

Let's use the cold months to get ahead on our writing so we can play later! Are you working on class papers, reports, manuscripts, grant proposals, sermons,...

April 28, 2023 9:00 a.m.
Virtual Event
28 Apr
Spring Cathedral

Learning from our students, faculty, and staff, internationally known scientists, practitioners and policymakers on issues of environmental, occupational and...

April 28, 2023 1:00 p.m.
28 Apr
Jonas Salk in his laboratory

Save the date for a special unveiling of our new exhibit of artifacts from Jonas Salk's lab during the histoic development of the polio vaccine. Featuring a...

April 28, 2023 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 29

29 Apr
comencement

Celebrate the academic achievement of our 2022-23 graduates as they become the newest cohort of alumni at the Pitt Public Health Graduation ceremony. New...

April 29, 2023 11:00 a.m.

April 2 - May 1, 2023