The UNMC College of Public Health will host the third annual Midwest Public Health Innovation and Research Expo on Nov. 3 to celebrate public health research. The expo is free, but registration is required.
The event will take place in UNMC’s Maurer Center for Public Health on the Omaha campus and enable faculty, students and stakeholders to meet collaborators and community and clinical partners, showcase their research, hear updates from UNMC College of Public Health Innovation Fund investigators and brainstorm innovative ideas for federal funding.
The expo is co-sponsored by the Great Plains IDeA-CTR and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Presentations will begin at 9 a.m. The keynote address is at 11 a.m. by Qingzhao Yu, PhD, interim associate dean at the School of Public Health at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans. She will deliver the keynote presentation on “Inference on Moderation Effect with Mediation Analysis — Application to Explore the Trend of Racial Disparity in Oncotype DX Test for Breast Cancer Treatment.”
The UNMC College of Public Health is excited to welcome colleagues from the UNL Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said Dean Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH.
Dr. Khan said, “Cooperation between our NU campuses is critical for the health of the citizens of Nebraska and for national models of improved community health. We look forward to talking with Dean Derek McLean and his faculty and students to devise ways to learn the great work IANR is doing across the state of Nebraska and infuse a greater public health perspective.
“We are confident that our collaborations can help make Nebraska the healthiest state.”
Register for the free event at this link. A virtual option is available for online and remote students or those not able to attend in person; denote “virtual” when registering to receive Zoom information closer to the event.
The event also includes oral and poster presentations with topics ranging from health care disparities and public health to economic analysis of health interventions to global health issues. Both faculty and student research will be featured.
For more information, email Wendi Jensen.