Health Disparities Symposium
Social Determinants: Methods and Practice
Agenda
Registration for the Health Disparities Symposium is free.
May 6th
3:30 - 3:35 pm Opening Remarks
3:35 - 4:45 pm Keynote Address
May 7th
9:30 - 11:30 am Faculty Panel
1 - 2:50 pm Epidemiology Workshop
3 - 5 pm Statistics Workshop
May 8th
10:30 am - 12 pm Public Health - Seattle / King County Presentations
1 - 2:30 pm Public Health - Seattle / King County Presentations
Tuesday, May 6
3:30-3:35 pm Opening Remarks, Hogness Auditorium
Dean Patricia W. Wahl, PhD
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
3:35-4:45 pm Keynote Address, Hogness Auditorium
"Population Health and Health Disparities: The Role of Social Epidemiology"
John W. Lynch PhD, MPH, MEd, University of Michigan
Reception to follow, Health Sciences Lobby
Wednesday, May 7
9:30-11:30 am Faculty Panel, South Campus Center 316L
"Social Determinants & Structural Factors in Current Epidemiologic Research":
Moderator Shirley A. Beresford, PhD
AIDS, Social Networks Martina Morris, PhD
Cancer John D. Potter, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Disease Andrea Z. LaCroix, PhD, MPH
Injury Thomas D. Koepsell, MD, MPH
1-2:50 pm Epidemiology Workshop, D209
"Challenges in Social Epidemiology Research"
"Framing the Research Question"
John W. Lynch, PhD, MPH, MEd, University of Michigan
"Issues in Design"
Thomas D. Koepsell, MD, MPH
"Issues in Measurement"
Donald L. Patrick, PhD, MSPH
3-5 pm Statistics Workshop, T531
"Causal Inference and Hierarchical Modeling"
Moderator - Norman E. Breslow, PhD
"Modern approaches to confounding, with reference to socioeconomic effects on health"
Thomas S. Richardson, PhD, MS
Discussant: Thomas S. Lumley, PhD
"Ecological Inference in Epidemiology"
Jonathan Wakefield, PhD
"Multilevel modeling and its applications to social contagion."
Brian G. LeRoux, PhD

Thursday, May 8
10:30 am-2:30 pm Public Health - Seattle / King County Presentation, D209
"Social Determinants of Health in Public Health Practice"
Moderator - James Krieger, MD, MPH
Chief, Epidemiology, Planning and Evaluation Unit
Public Health - Seattle & King County
10:30 am - noon "Methodologic Issues using Social Epidemiology for Local Public Health"
Michael Smyser, MPH, and David Solet, PhD
Public Health - Seattle / King County
1-2:30 pm "Community Health Assessment and Improvement"
Kathryn Horsley, DrPH, Alison Eisinger, MSW, and James Krieger, MD, MPH
Public Health - Seattle / King County