LifeSciences BC Breakfast Speaking Event Featuring Health Economist, Dr. Aslam Anis, discussing: "Sustainability of the Health Care System: Equitable and Timely Access to New Medications - Attainable Goals?"

LifeSciences BC is pleased to welcome Dr. Aslam H. Anis as our keynote speaker for our next Breakfast Speaking Event. Dr. Anis is Professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, Director for UBC’s Masters in Health Administration Program and Director of the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences.
Background

There is a lot of debate about the sustainability of the Canadian healthcare system. Since pharmaceutical expenditure growth has been identified as a major contributor to healthcare cost escalation and because community-based pharmaceutical coverage is excluded from the Canada Health Act, an inordinate amount of pressure is being applied to reign-in pharmaceutical costs. The popular wisdom being that uncontrolled pharmaceutical expenditure growth threatens the very sustainability of the public system in Canada. The flip side of the argument is that successful cost cutting is leading to slower approval and delays in gaining access to the newer and more expensive medications for Canadians. The solution is just as unpalatable as the original threat. This presentation will explore, from an historical perspective, major pharmaceutical policy initiatives, and contrast both the policies and their outcomes in Canada, as well as in other developed countries and comment on system sustainability.

Prior to Dr. Anis' presentation, representatives from Verisante Technology and MSI Methylations Sciences Inc. will introduce their respective companies to the local life sciences community.

Young men often remain at the periphery of chlamydia screening yet technology, such as the Internet, offers exciting potential for sexual health promotion. This presentation describes the results of a formative, exploratory study of Scottish young men’s (16-24) views towards Internet-based chlamydia screening. Whilst most men considered the proposed approach to be acceptable, there was an age-related difference in digital tastes and individual use of new technologies. Young men should be engaged as co-producers of intervention materials and websites, to ensure messages and content are framed appropriately within a fast changing environment. The seminar will include a discussion on the ways in which evidence is being used in the UK to inform proactive screening of young men for chlamydia.

Presenter: Dr Karen Lorimer is a Research Fellow in Public Health at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK. She is a sociologist (PhD, University of Glasgow) and leads a portfolio of work around social and behavioural dimensions of sexual health, methods for reaching hard-to-reach populations (e.g. young men, older people), and impact of technology on sexual behaviour and sexual health. Recent work on the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions among men who have sex with men (MSM) has informed the Scottish guidance for HIV prevention interventions among MSM. She is leading the development of a Sexual Health Research Network in the UK. Karen is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland (est. 2011). She is also Co-Convenor of the Young Academy Health and Wellbeing working group and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

Hosted by Youth Sexual Health Team

Abstract: At present the annual recidivism rate among 7000 admissions to female correctional centres in Canada is 40% within one year and 75% within two years. Few researchers have conceptualized imprisonment as an outcome of a disordered health and social environment. The overwhelming majority of women in prison have been subjected to poverty, child abuse, and role modeling of criminal behaviour by parents and, as adults, domestic violence. Our aim is to work with incarcerated women to improve our understanding of factors that prevent or facilitate their re-integration into society. In a cohort analysis, we followed 407 women following release from provincial prison in British Columbia, Canada, to evaluate the impact of exposure to intimate partner violence on their post-incarceration trajectory. Interviews were conducted at release and three months later by phone or in person with community-based peer researchers who themselves had been previously incarcerated.

Speaker: Dr. Patricia Janssen
Dr. Janssen conducts clinical trials and population-based studies to evaluate obstetrical interventions such as management of early labour, and alternative methods of pain management. She also designs new standards for fetal evaluation including intrauterine growth standards, and fetal oxygen saturation using near infra-red spectroscopy and standards for fetal heart rate patterns at preterm gestations. She works with marginalized women including women in the sex trade and previously incarcerated women to identify and test strategies to promote safety and self-reliance. For her work on home birth in British Columbia, she is the 2010 recipient of the University of British Columbia’s President”s Award for Public Education through Media. She is a Professor, Theme Leader, Maternal Child Health, and Director of the Master of Public Health Program in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia and Associate Faculty in the Departments of Family Practice, Midwifery, and Obstetrics and Gynecology and the School of Nursing.

Presenter: Dr. Clive Ondari, Coordinator, Medicine Access and Rational Use (MAR),
Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies (EMP) at the World Health Organization (WHO).

Clive Ondari, PhD, MBA, BSc, is the Coordinator, Medicine Access and Rational Use (MAR),
Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies (EMP) at the World Health Organization. Dr. Ondari has been with the WHO since 1999, and was previously Associate Professor and Head of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice at the University of Nairobi.

Dr. Ondari’s work to improve access to medicines is extensive: he was Program Coordinator for the Kenya National Drug Policy Implementation Program which included responsibility for activities related to effective medicines supply management, rational use, and regulatory activities including registration, quality assurance of marketed medicines and pharmaceutical human resources. He has lead activities in the evaluation of the quality of malaria medications in developing countries and coordinated the development of the first comprehensive WHO guidelines on malaria treatment. He successfully secured the commitment of, and supported, key manufacturers to produce newer antimalarials and national regulatory agencies to strengthen their control on the market for antimalarial medicines. He provides technical guidance to countries in developing appropriate medicines policies on affordability, availability and financing, supply management and ensuring good governance in their regulatory and supply
systems.

Chris McLeod, PhD, Assistant Professor, UBC School of Population & Public Health

Ellen ‘t Hoen, LL.M.
Former advocacy director of the Médecins sans Frontières
Research Fellow at University of Amsterdam

“Patents and Politics - How the HIV crisis changed pharmaceutical intellectual property policies”

Biography:
Ellen ’t Hoen is a lawyer and an independent consultant in medicines policy and law, with expertise in intellectual property and access to medicines. She established the Medicines Patent Pool to accelerate the availability of low cost HIV treatments in developing countries through patent licensing, and was its Executive Director until June 2012. Ellen ‘t Hoen is a member of the World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Policies and Management, and a research fellow at the IS HIV/AIDS Academy of the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of the book: "The Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power. Drug patents, access, innovation and the application of the WTO Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health," published in 2009. She also co-founded DES Action the Netherlands and has won several awards for her work on DES (diethylstilbestrol)

Turing Award winner Judea Pearl (UCLA) looks at how math can demystify data-intensive research in medicine, population health, the social sciences, economics, and beyond. Pearl, widely credited with creating the computational foundation for processing information under uncertainty, will discuss sample-selection bias, external validity, generalizing from experiments, and incorporating data from diverse studies.

Presenter: Joanne Wooldridge, Regional Leader, Early Childhood Development, VCH
Title: 'Healthy Start Initiatives - Implementation in VCH'

The Maternal-Child Health seminars are a bi-monthly non-credit seminar for trainees. Students present their work for feedback, students and faculty present journal articles of interest, discuss submissions for conferences, explore sources of funding, or present guest speakers.

Topic: Diagnosis of Amniotic Fluid Infection Prior to Cerclage Using Glucose and Gram Stain: an individual patient meta-analysis

Sarka Lisonkova, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UBC

Yasser Sabr, MD, MHSc
Fellow, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UBC
PhD Candidate, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

Learning objectives:

To provide participants with
* Information on recent developments in the field
* Multidisciplinary perspectives
* Critical analysis of important topics from a substantive and methodologic perspective (through presentation and discussion of Journal articles, etc)
* A forum for discussing research ideas and research in progress


** The Academic Perinatology Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada **

Presentations from Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residents

Presenters:

• Andrew Deonarine: RWUI: An online system for the analysis and visualization of spatial epidemiological data using R and Google Maps


• Emily Newhouse: Life expectancy inequities in Vancouver Coastal Health and the Downtown Eastside: Exploration through decomposition


• Mark Lysyshyn: Development of a framework for assessing risks related to public health emergencies at the Public Health Agency of Canada


• John Omura: The Descriptive Epidemiology of HIV infection in the Vancouver Coastal Health Region


• Jason Wong: Effectiveness of a two visit Hepatitis B vaccination schedule in the urgent traveler


• Joanna Oda: Experiences of burnout amongst family practice residents: a qualitative study


• Karin Goodison: Increasing Access to Immunization Services within Interior Health


• Lisa Mu: Using and Evaluating PBL to develop the knowledge and skills of public health professionals in healthy urban development

Daniel Song, MSc student, UBC School of Population & Public Health

The Place of Culture-based Reasons in Public Debates
Allen Alvarez
NTNU, Norway

The recent mass murder in Norway revived the old debate about whether extremist communication should be banned in public debates. Starting with this case the discussion will revisit the old debate about how to conduct public deliberation of controversial policy issues such as immigration and banning extremist speech. Should our competing claims in public debate include only public reasons that people at large share in liberal democracies? Or should nonpublic (culture-based) reasons (e.g. religious or comprehensive views, or even extremist ideologies) held by specific groups be included in public debate as well? The review is hoped to generate ideas that could support developing online public discussion models that include nonpublic (culture-based) reasons.

Antibiotic Awareness Week is from November 14 - 20, 2012.

The Menace of Antimicrobial Resistance
Donald E. Low, MD, FRCPC
Chief of the Department of Microbiology, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital
Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Department of Medicine.

Infections with resistant bacteria were first reported in the early part of the last century with the use of optochin to treat pneumococcal pneumonia. Early on the problem was often overlooked, because if one antibiotic did not treat the infection another was usually available. Since then, infections with resistant bacteria have become more common in healthcare and community settings, and many bacteria have become resistant to more than one type or class of antibiotics. Consequently, health care workers are faced with treating infections where antibiotic options are very limited, and in some cases, where no effective antibiotics exist. The consequences of resistance are many including: need to use antibiotics that are more expensive or more toxic; the risk of increased morbidity and mortality; failure to effectively treat, the microorganisms will persist and potentially spread to others; and the economic burden on the healthcare system. We are currently witnessing a number of new emerging threats that will challenge how we care for our patients including pan-resistant gram-negatives pathogens in both the hospital (NDM-1, MRSA), the community (multi-drug resistant gonorrhoea, MRSA, multidrug-resistant pneumococci), and in agriculture (Multidrug-resistant DT 104 Salmonella Typhimurium).

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Jeffrey T. Parsons, Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York

Jeffrey T. Parsons is CUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Public Health and the Director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST). He is also a member of the doctoral faculty in the Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Health Psychology, and Public Health programs at CUNY. Dr. Parsons' research revolves around issues concerning HIV/AIDS. Most of his work centers on sexual risk behaviour change, but reducing alcohol and other drug use and improving adherence to HIV medications are also the focus of some of the current interventions being tested. He is the editor of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and an Associate Editor of Archives of Sexual Behaviour and AIDS and Behaviour.

Antimicrobial Resistance: Perspectives from the Public Health Agency of Canada

Marc-André Gaudreau
Manager, Strategic Issues, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada

• An overview of the Agency’s role with respect to antimicrobial resistance will be provided.
• Monitoring AMR from farm to fork – results from the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS)

Rita Finley
Senior Epidemiologist, Surveillnce Division of the Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada.

• Following antimicrobial resistant Salmonella isolated from farm, abattoir, retail and human clinical cases. Ms Finley will also share updates on the human antimicrobial use surveillance that is carried out by CIPARS.


• Antimicrobial Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada: a National Perspective

Irene Martin
Head, Streptococcus and STI Unit, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada

• In Canada, reported rates of gonorrhea infection have been increasing yearly since 1997. Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates with decreasing susceptibilities to the cephalosporins used for treatment are on the rise, threatening the available drug treatment options for gonorrhea infections. The Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory monitors the antimicrobial susceptibilities of N. gonorrhoeae to ensure the effectiveness of recommended treatments and timely detection of emerging resistance mechanisms.


• Public Health Updates on the Management of multidrug resistant gonorrhea (MDR-GC)

Dr. Thomas Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC
Director of Professional Guidelines and Public Health Practice Division, Centre for Communicable Diseases & Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada

• Dr. Wong will share treatment recommendations from the Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections that have been updated in response to increasing gonococcal antimicrobial resistance.

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Abstract:
Comparative effectiveness research evaluates benefits and harms of alternative treatments. A causal connection between treatment choice and outcomes can be demonstrated by comparing patients randomly assigned to one of the treatments. However, not all causal questions can be answered through even well-designed experiments. For example, questions of attribution (What proportion of patients treated with A would have survived, had they been treated with B?) and questions of susceptibility (What proportion of patients treated with B would have died, had they been treated with A?) cannot be answered with data alone. Such questions require counterfactual analysis of the observed data, since only the outcome of one treatment alternative can be observed for a given patient. In this talk, I discuss the causalilty perspective in comparing effectiveness of alternative interventions in coronary revascularization.

Speaker: Dr. Boris Sobolev
Professor and Canada Research Chair
School of Population and Public Health
The University of British Columbia

Please note: this is a new date, updated from November 23rd.

All faculty are invited to attend

Ed Chessor, MBA, PEng, Adjunct Professor, UBC School of Population & Public Health

Dr. Nir Eyal
Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School

With the 2012 global turnover expected to reach $100-billion USD, medical tourism (travel across international borders to obtain health care) is rapidly expanding. India and Thailand are currently the lead global service suppliers. Unfortunately, providing health care to tourists may exacerbate the already critical shortages of health professionals in these countries’ underserved sectors—in remote rural areas and in the public sector. What can be done to improve the impact of medical tourism on health worker availability in these sectors? State regulation of medical tourism might increase prices and send tourists to competitors. International regulation and codes tend to be toothless. Nir Eyal proposes an ethical accreditation system that might improve health worker availability at an acceptable cost. Accreditation could promote global health in additional areas.

Thematic Series: Philippine-Canadian Crosscurrents: Thinking of the World through Global Migration and the Thematic Series: Public Health Law and Policy in Asia

Dr. Mark Tyndall will present "Public Health and the Supreme Court of Canada: The Good, the Bad and the Smudgy" at the BC Centre for Disease Control lunchtime Grand Rounds session.

Dr. Mark Tyndall is a Professor of Medicine and Head of Infectious Diseases at the University of Ottawa. He was at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS from 1999 to 2010 where he conducted a number of high impact research projects around HIV and drug use. He joined the University of Ottawa in November 2010, where he has continued to advocate for research and programming in HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, addiction treatment and health care for people who use drugs.

This presentation will be webcast live.

To view the webcast, please click on the following link or copy and paste into your browser: http://phsa.mediasite.com/mediasite/Play/f385b205f3de49829bc5a5c4a9609b711d

Faculty, staff and students in SPPH are invited to a pancake breakfast to raise funds for the UBC United Way campaign.

Cost is $5 (minimum), with all proceeds going to United Way.

Faculty volunteers will be flipping pancakes from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. There will be a gluten-free station, fruit and drinks served. Please bring your own utensils, a plate and cup if possible.

RSVP: kim.mantle@ubc.ca by Nov. 16

With:
Peter Dodek, MD, MHSc • Professor, Div. of Critical Care Medicine, UBC • Scientist and Chair, Critical Care Working
Group, CHÉOS

Natalie Henrich, PhD, MPH • Scientist, CHÉOS


This talk is open and will include a light lunch.

Are you a Joss Whedon fan? Still smarting after Fox callously cancelled FIREFLY almost 10 years ago? Chances are that you have already seen SERENITY, but here is your chance to see it again on the big TV screen in SPPH Lobby.

Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds (also known as Captain Tightpants) commands his ragtag crew, including quirky pilot Wash and his former Browncoat wife, Zoe; the gun-loving, Jayne; sweet but horny, Kaylee; and the Tan siblings - Simon who walked away from his prestigious medical career to rescue and protect his damaged psychic sister, River.

Unfortunately for all, River knows something that the Alliance government wants buried, and they have sent an operative out to ensure she is silenced - along with anyone close to her. That, well, that makes Mal gorram annoyed. And when Mal gets annoyed, he 'aims to misbehave.'

Shiny!

In our second UBC Aboriginal Youth Learning Circle of the 2012-2013 season, Indigenous role model Alissa Derrick shares her experience of a difficult past and how she has overcome numerous challenges to become a badminton champion and all-round role model for Indigenous youth.

The Youth Circle is oriented towards Aboriginal youth aged 12 to 29 throughout BC. There are approximately two Youth Circles per month. The Circle gives young Aboriginal people a place to express themselves, to be entertained and to learn and teach others about what’s going on and what they want to do in their communities.

Registration is required to attend this Youth Circle. To register, please
click here.

New Visions of Health Care in Aboriginal Communities: Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
Come learn and share ideas about Aboriginal health care and research.

Panel Speakers: Kim Brooks, Dr. Annette Browne, Mara Andrews, Dr. Marjorie MacDonald

For many Aboriginal community members, primary health (eg. family doctors) and public health (eg. disease prevention) services are the first contact with the health care system. This event will explore examples of how public health and primary care can be potentially combined in creative ways to better meet the needs of Aboriginal community members.

This event is open to the general public. Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community members are welcome and encouraged to attend. This event is very relevant for health care practitioners, community service providers and Aboriginal organizations.

Refreshments will be provided. Please feel free to distribute the attached poster to colleagues, students and friends.

Please RSVP: staff@phabc.org

The Terry Project Global Speaker Series presents Margaret Atwood: Writing the Future

Margaret Atwood, a giant of modern literature who has anticipated, explored, satirized—and even changed—the popular preoccupations of our time, will explore “whether or not one can write about “The Future,” and why prophecy is dodgy. This will include an in-depth dive into the meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse, which always takes place in “The Future.” Unlike vampires.”

Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards including the prestigious Booker Prize. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction and non-fiction. Currently, in collaboration with Naomi Alderman, she is releasing in installments a serialised novel called The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home.

This event is held in partnership with Canadian Literature, the Department of English, the UBC Bookstore, the Faculty of Arts, the International Canadian Studies Centre, and the Alma Mater Society


Tickets available at the Chan Centre box office. This is open noon to 5pm, on Mondays to Saturdays.

Tickets are free for students, staff members, faculty, and alumni. Some tickets will be available to the general public for $15 + service fees.

Please note: The speaker has asked that all participants please bring everyone to bring a device capable of web access or SMS messaging

Speaker:
Dr. Larry Lynd received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy from the University of Saskatchewan in 1986 and PhD in epidemiology from the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia in 2002. He then completed a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in health economics with Dr. Bernie O'Brien at McMaster University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, an Associate of the School of Population and Public Health, and he has an adjunct appointment to Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is the Associate Director of the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) at UBC. He is a Scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences (CHEOS) at Providence Health, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator.

Outside of the university setting, Dr. Lynd has served on the National Drug Scheduling Advisory Committee, and he currently sits on the Health Canada Special Advisory Committee for Non-prescription drugs, and the BC Ministry of Health’s Expensive Drugs for Rare Diseases Advisory Committee.

Join us to celebrate the School of Population and Public Health students who graduated in UBC 2012 Fall convocation ceremonies.

Cake and tea/coffee will be served.

Drew Ross, MSc, Manager, Health and Safety, City of Vancouver

Host Site: Diamond Health Care Centre, Lecture Theatre
Main Floor, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver

Lower Mainland: Life Sciences Centre, Lecture Theatre 1

Vancouver Island: UVic, Medical Sciences Building (MSB) 150 LT

Northern: UNBC, Northern Health Science Centre (NHSC) 9-235 LT

Interior: Kelowna General Hospital, Clinical Academic Campus, Room 235

SPPH will be hosting one of UBC Risk Management Services' free influenza immunizations (flu vaccine) clinics for UBC students, faculty and staff.

These clinics are on a first come, first served basis, so
register early!


Clinics will be held in a variety of locations across UBC during November. For more information click here

Abraham Rudnick MD PhD, Vancouver Island Health Authority, University of British Columbia

Abstract: Ethics consultations (ECs) are established in contemporary health care. Informal ECs often occur and are possibly beneficial, yet they have not been empirically studied. We sought to describe features of informal ECs and to find facilitators and disruptors of patient participation in such ECs.

Methods: We used a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) evaluation design and conveniently sampled 64 sequential informal ECs over a period of 3 years in 2 academic health care centres in one city in Canada. Data were collected by the 2 participating ethicists. We used statistical description for the quantitative data and thematic analysis for the qualitative data.

Results: Patients participated in only 2 (3%) of the informal ECs. Factors that disrupted patient participation in ECs were related to patients’ issues (such as mental impairments), family issues (such as family withholding information from the patient), and team members’ issues (such as efficiency considerations).

Interpretation: Informal ECs may be used for ethics capacity building of health care providers rather than for engagement with addressed patients. Further research on informal ECs is required, including in different sites.

This neuroethics seminar is jointly hosted by The W. Maurice Young Centre of Applied Ethics

Join us as we welcome Indigenous role model, actor, and director William Belleau from Alkali Lake, BC for an exciting and interactive online Youth Circle!

William has appeared in a number of popular films including the Twilight saga where he played one of the Quileute warriors. William’s other acting accomplishments include the TV series Freedom Riders, the documentary TV series The American Experience, and the TV series Psych. This year, besides playing a part in Trevor Mack’s The Blanketing and The Dancing Cop, William was in the TV series The Killing and can currently be seen in the TVseries Primeval: New World as Leo John.

For more information about William, check out the Williams Lake news site,
demo reel, and his Facebook page!

The Youth Circle is oriented towards Aboriginal youth aged 12 to 29 throughout BC. There are approximately two Youth Circles per month. The Circle gives young Aboriginal people a place to express themselves, to be entertained and to learn and teach others about what’s going on and what they want to do in their communities.

How to Connect
There are now two ways to join us at the Learning Circle.
1) To join this interactive, online presentation via videoconference, please call 1-877-666-2311 and ask for the UBC Youth Learning Circle. You will still need to pre-register for this session. To register, please click here.
2) You can also participate via Adobe Connect from the convenience of your office, school, or home computer. To register, please click here. Further information on how to connect with the Learning Circle via Adobe Connect will be distributed on the morning of the event (November 29).

Registration is required to attend this Youth Circle.

Co-sponsored by Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE)

Speaker: MONICA BROWN, UBC
In this presentation, I discuss ways in which public health agencies persuade audiences to alter their hand washing habits. I argue that hand hygiene has been promoted within a framework of public health as a personal responsibility, in which hand washing is presented as an effective way for individuals to participate in risk management and disease prevention. I also critique the influence of this health habit, and challenge the limits of hand washing promotion as a panacea for systemic problems in health care and global health.

STS Colloquium: http://sts.arts.ubc.ca/colloquium-events/sts-colloquium/

Despite growing knowledge of the dynamics of HIV infection during conflict, far less is known about the period that follows cessation of hostilities and its implications for population health. This study sought to fill a lacuna in epidemiological evidence through examining HIV infection and related vulnerabilities of young people living in resource-scarce, post-emergency transit camps that are now home to thousands of IDPs following two decades of war in northern Uganda. The study’s main findings and their implications for the development and implementation of appropriate responses to HIV among young people in post-conflict transition will be presented. In addition, a discussion of the distribution of HIV within this population, including the social, biological, and behavioural factors associated with infection, will offer new insights on HIV transmission in post-conflict settings.

Presenter:
Dr. Sheetal Patel is a global health epidemiologist committed to HIV/AIDS prevention and care research among marginalized populations in Africa and Canada. She received her PhD in 2012 from the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She also holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from Simon Fraser University as well as a Master of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For the past 8 years, Dr. Patel has been investigating the impact of conflict on HIV infection and related vulnerabilities among young people surviving war and displacement in northern Uganda.

Book Launch & Lecture by Dr. Lou Marinoff, Best-Selling Author of “Plato Not Prozac”

Presented by Banyen Books, Soka Gakkai International of Canada, & the W. Maurice Young
Centre for Applied Ethics (UBC)

Bianca Malouf, SPPH MSc Candidate