This Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network Grand Rounds featured a panel of three rehabilitation providers who will discuss initiatives within their health systems to collect and use social determinants of health data.

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The 4th decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside heightened assaults on reproductive rights has prompted an undoing of our sense of self and community in relation to illness and inequality. Join the Pembroke Center for a talk by Jallicia Jolly, assistant professor in American Studies and Black Studies at Amherst College and co-chair of Birth Equity and Justice Massachusetts. She clarifies the role of reproductive justice as an actionable political strategy and framework attentive to the dynamics of Black women’s sexuality and reproductive capacities and invested in concrete systemic changes that cultivate enabling conditions for marginalized groups to both exercise bodily autonomy and become active beneficiaries of scientific advances.

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The Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) presents Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, and Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and Biostatistics.

Does your code work? How are you sure? Software engineers have thought a lot about answers to these questions. Researchers, not so much. In this talk, Professor Bilinski will argue that better systems for reproducibility and transparency could both improve science and help researchers, and she’ll talk about what these could look like in health policy.

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The online MPH presents Madina Agénor, associate professor of behavioral and social sciences and of epidemiology, for the next Leadership in Action Webinar moderated by online MPH students. Agénor's research focuses on structural determinants of health inequities; experiences of and resistance to racism, sexism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism in sexual and reproductive health care settings among mutliply marginalized groups; and Black women's community health and reproductive justice organizing and activism in the 19th and 20th century. The Leadership in Action Webinar Series features real and intimate conversations enabling students to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on the career paths of our extraordinary leaders.

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When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Thirty years in the making, Anonymous Sister is Emmy Award®-winning director, Jamie Boyle’s chronicle of her family’s collision with the opioid epidemic.

Join the Pandemic Center and the Brown Arts Institute for a reception at 5:30pm, film screening at 6pm, with panel and community discussion to follow.

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The United States is known and respected worldwide for its innovation. But innovation, at its core, relies on failure and a freedom to learn from failure. The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs welcomes former Ambassador Suzi LeVine to Brown to share how other nations view failure vs. the US. She will present the failed starts of many individuals we currently consider successful, along with tales of learning from failure in her own non-linear career.

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Multisite observational research reusing sensitive data requires a federated approach. Building on the lessons learned in several international research projects, Dr. Enrique Bernal-Delgado, of the Institute for Health Sciences of Aragon (Spain), will join the CHeSS Seminar Series to discuss key issues in the deployment of federated research including how to achieve the data-visiting principle, the orchestration of the nodes in a federation, and the need for semantic and technical interoperability.

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The CAAS Postdoctoral Training Program's 2024 Angela K. Stevens Memorial Lecture presents Ijeoma Opara, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at the Yale School of Public Health, for "Strengths Based Approaches to Substance Use Prevention for Black Girls." Professor Opara is founder and director of the Substance Abuse & Sexual Health Lab at Stony Brook University and director of a consulting agency that offers training to youth, community-based organizations, companies and schools on topics related to substance use prevention and sexual health.

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