If you intend to graduate in May, please remember that you must complete your defense and have your warrant signed no later than Friday, May 18th. If circumstances occur where this is not possible, you can change the term on your warrant to summer 2007. If you finish during the summer window period (on or before June 15), summer course registration is NOT required (however, your degree would be considered earned during the summer term). If you finish after the summer window (after June 15), please see the summer enrollment requirements below.

Please also remember to submit a CD copy as well as bound copy of your thesis or dissertation to the Graduate Program Office (WARF 740). For further details, please review the thesis and dissertation sections of the Population Health MS/PhD Academic Guide at
http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/info_curr_grad.htm

Summer 2007 Graduates

As a reminder, if you intend to graduate over the summer (in August) please remember that you must be enrolled in 2 graduate-level credits as a Master’s student or 3 graduate-level credits as a Ph.D. student. The credits should be taken in the eight-week general summer session. In addition, audit and pass/fail courses do not satisfy this enrollment requirement. These are requirements taken from the Graduate School’s Academic
Guidelines: http://www.wisc.edu/grad/guidelines/glossindex.html#171

Summer 2007 Course Enrollment

Am I required to enroll for courses over the summer? Yes, if you intend to graduate in the summer (in August); please see above. The answer also may be “yes” depending on the job appointment you have over the summer. Please review your job appointment letter as well as the requirements listed in the Graduate School’s Academic Guidelines at:
http://www.wisc.edu/grad/guidelines/glossindex.html#171

The Summer enrollment period began Monday, March 26. There are no general enrollment holds for summer; thus, there is not a Summer Advising Form to complete. However, if you intend to enroll in a summer 699 or 990 course, you will need to complete a 699/990 Authorization Form for each relevant course. The 699/990 Authorization Form needs to be signed by the instructor overseeing the work of the 699 or 990 course and turned in to Lisa Steiner’s mailbox (7th floor WARF). These forms are available at:
http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/info_curr_grad.htm

Student Publications, Awards, and Honors

Please report to Kelly Haslam at haslam@wisc.edu any publications, awards, and honors you have received during your tenure with the graduate program. The department would like to keep track of the scientific production and achievements of its students as well as recognize all your accomplishments. When submitting your information, please indicate if you prefer your name to be withheld should the information be included on the web or in a program newsletter. Thank you in advance for helping us compile this information!

Other Program and Graduate School Guidelines

For further information on program or graduate school issues, please refer to the
Population Health MS/PhD Academic Guide at
http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/info_curr_grad.htm or the
Graduate School Academic Guidelines at
http://www.wisc.edu/grad/guidelines/glossindex.html .

Recognition

Elect a Nominee for Donn D’Alessio Student Award

Nominations are posted on the PHS Student Organization bulletin board and are also posted on the web at: http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/fin_don_dal.htm . All students are eligible to vote and may do so by going to Kelly Haslam’s office (Room 744) beginning on Monday, April 30 and no later than 4:00 pm on Wednesday, May 9. The prize will be a book selected by the winner (up to $200 in value) and will be awarded at the Graduation Luncheon. To be selected a student must demonstrate:

1. Outstanding activities indicative of good citizenship as a member of this Department's student, faculty and academic staff community.

2. A history of excellence in research and academics, and of active sharing of this knowledge base with fellow students through formal and informal activities.

3. Active involvement in student affairs and the PHS Student Organization.

Population Health Interview

For the inside scoop on Population Health students and staff...

This month's feature: Denny Fryback, Population Health Professor

We understand you are planning on retirement later this year. Can you share with us some of your retirement plans?

Judy and I are moving to Huntington Beach, California, which is on the coast south of Los Angeles. We own a condo on the ocean there that used to be Judy's family's home, and we have family and friends from San Diego, California, to Bellingham, Washington, all up and down the west coast. We'll move sometime around Christmas or New Years. I'll remain affiliated with the UW and PHS, and I hope to continue working about 40% time with my research group until the grant runs out sometime in 2009. Since the grant funds two projects at UCLA and one at UCSD, I'll be a visiting faculty member at UCLA in 2008 and use my time to help them catch up to the fast pace that we've set here at UW. In the 2009/10 academic year I've got an opportunity to be a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and I'd like use it to write a book about measuring health.

So "retiring" is in part just an opportunity to work on things that I really like to do and say "no" to other stuff. And it is an opportunity to travel more. I'll be 60 years old this year -- the leading edge of the baby boom -- and after 33 years at UW it seems like a good time to change venues so I can have one more opportunity to reinvent myself.

What do you feel were some of your most significant achievements during your career in Population Health.

It was great to be a part of a department in evolution, and to play a small role in a terrific program in health administration and administrative medicine in the early history of the department, and in the transition to our being a program in Population Health with the MS/PhD program. This is the work of many people and we collectively should be very proud that we have produced this wonderful thing! I've been lucky to have great students; helping them start careers is very rewarding and what they will do is far more than what I've done.

Where are your favorite travel destinations?

Gosh. There are a lot. I really enjoy Cape Town, South Africa, where I was an exchange student in high school. I like York, England. But I also love the US northwest where I grew up in Oregon. And the 'four corners' area where New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado come together. But then I'd always go back to Badlands National Park in South Dakota too. I guess I like traveling just about anywhere!

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

I don't have one idea of perfect happiness. There are moments that I really treasure in my mind: A perfectly still and clear, moonless night with Saturn at 400X in the eyepiece of my telescope and Mozart playing in my headphones comes to mind. Then there was the perfect August night when the moon went into total eclipse and the stars came out like they were 3-dimensional. Or a time out sailing with a great friend when the wind was strong but didn't touch the water so the lake surface was like a mirror and we buried the rail of the boat making 8 knots. Or watching a great sunset with my wife from the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Or finding the exact perfect wine to match a great cheese. Or sitting down with a good book on history of science, or 'hard-science' science fiction. Or wandering a great art museum or science and technology museum. Or finding a really interesting fossil.

But I could equally say that perfect happiness is sitting down to my computer with a brand new data set no one has seen before and saying, "Now, let's see what we've got!"

Who are the heroes in your life?

My parents are heroes to me, and a couple of mentors (Jack Thornbury, Lee Lusted) I've had . But really, what I really admire is anyone with a talent, who loves to use that talent and who uses it well: scientists, writers, artists, thinkers, story tellers, activists, musicians, healers, athletes, housepainters, plumbers, parents -- it doesn't matter to me quite what it is. People who make the best of their talent and who love using it to good purpose are my heroes.

Tell us a little about your research interests or areas of expertise.

My interests have evolved over the years. I was trained in mathematical psychology (my undergrad degree is a dual major in psychology and math from UCLA, and my MA is in mathematics and my PhD is in psychology from Michigan) -- specializing in theories of measurement and decision making. In the late 1970s applying decision analysis to medical decision problems was where I wanted to be. It was great because all the important things about it, probabilities and how we value outcomes, were subjective and hard to measure. Gradually I became more and more interested in using the apparatus of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis for evaluating medical technologies. Now, I think the frontier where I can have most impact is in helping to standardize measures of health outcomes. These all may sound different, but they really are a continuum along which I've traveled.

Along the way I got involved in a number of things that have really been fun: I helped to found the Society for Medical Decision Making, and edited their journal for several years. I got to spend a year of leave from UW at the National Library of Medicine and was the "inside man" helping to change the MeSH term "sensitivity" from meaning an allergic reaction to meaning the sensitivity of a test, thereby helping medical decision analysts ever since be able to search the literature for this critical piece of data for many decision analyses. I also got to dabble in artificial intelligence for medical diagnosis at NLM, and later, with a colleague in Industrial Engineering wrote a computer program for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to use data about the 12000 miles of state-maintained highways that used AI to diagnosis the problem with failing pavements and to use decision analysis to optimize highway repairs over a 6-year rolling horizon. We figured this saved Wisconsin several million dollars a year for maybe 10 years. In the early 1990s I got invited to be a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force because they wanted a methodologist to help evaluate preventive interventions. That was a real education for me! At the same time I was invited to be on the US Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine, and that turned into a 4 year seminar in health economics with some of the best minds in the country -- again a great education!!

I tell people to be open to these sorts of experiences and to grab them when the come by. They may not be exactly in your area, but you will grow with them and have fun learning. A lucky person will get 2 or 3 of these in a career. I've been very, very lucky!

Thanks, Denny!

AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship Awarded

Congratulations to Salwa Massad for her selection as an American Association of University Women International Doctoral Fellow Award for the 2007-08 school year. She is among 65 women selected from 957 applicants to receive an award.

Since AAUW began providing fellowships to women in 1888, over $35 million dollars has been awarded to outstanding women scholars from over 135 countries. Salwa joins the ranks of women who are leaders and role models worldwide.

Read more about the AAUW Fellowhip awards at
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/index.cfm

Congratulations, Salwa!

Anderson Chosen as Guggenheim Fellow

Professor Warwick Anderson is among three professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison chosen for a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, which recognize artists, scholars, and scientists based on distinguished past achievement and exceptional future promise. The UW professors are among 189 individuals selected by the Guggenheim Foundation from a pool of nearly 2,800 applicants. Read the complete article...

Departmental Seminars

Monday Seminar Series

http://pophealth.wisc.edu/seminar.htm

All regular seminars held 12:00 noon, in Room 1309 Health Sciences Learning Center unless otherwise noted. Seminars on the first Monday of the month are co-sponsored by the UW Population Health Institute.

May 7

Michael Rothschild, PhD, Emeritus Professor, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “An Introduction to Social Marketing: Considering its Philosophy and Process as Input to Public Health Practice.”

If you have any questions about the departmental seminars, call Patty Grubb at 5-0516 or contact her by e-mail at pagrubb@wisc.edu

Wednesday Seminar Series

All seminars are held from 12:00-1:00 PM in 132 WARF unless otherwise indicated.

May 2

Brent Johnson: "Physical activity and function in older, long-term colorectal cancer survivors"

May 9

Jessica Schumacher: "The Effect of a Cancer Diagnosis on Health Care Utilization"

Other Opportunities & Updates

Kinesiology Seminar

Thursday, May 3rd, 4PM
Room 1140, Natatorium

Dr. Ed Howley, University of Tennessee, will give the inaugural Henry Montoye-Francis Nagle Lecture
entitled: " Physical Activity: How much is enough?"

Dr. Howley has co-authored two textbooks on fitness and exercise and currently serves as editor in chief of the American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Fitness Journal. The Montoye-Nagle lecture series was established to honor the contributions to the UW-Madison Department of Kinesiology of Professors Emeriti Henry Montoye and Francis J. Nagle. Refreshments will be served.

Questions? Contact Gary Diffee at diffee@education.wisc.edu.

Population Health Sciences
Teaching Assistant (TA) Opportunity

PHS 797, “Introduction to Epidemiology”
Fall Semester 2007: September 4, 2007 – December 14, 2007

Responsibilities include:
• Attend lecture Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15
• Lead discussion sections
• Hold office hours
• Meet weekly with course instructor
• Assist with grading and maintaining course website

Requirements:
• Completed PHS 797
• Strong communication skills
• Preference will be given to graduate students in Population Health Sciences

Compensation:
• 50% appointment (20 hours/week)
• Includes tuition waiver
• Pay rate dependent upon experience

To Apply:
Contact Halcyon Skinner
Email hgskinner@wisc.edu
Office WARF 1007B
Telephone 265-4654

Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Position for
2007 Principles of Population Health Science (795)

Overview
The Department of Population Health Sciences is seeking a Graduate Teaching Assistant to help with the development and instruction of the 2007 Principles of Population Health Science (795) Course (Fall). The purpose of this course is to provide students with a foundation for understanding: 1) how population health is defined and measured; 2) the biological, cultural, social, economic, and healthcare determinants of population health; 3) the research development and design for studying population health; and 4) prevention and intervention strategies for improving population health.

Position Description
Teaching Assistant responsibilities will involve the development of course materials. These development and “course construction” activities will be conducted in collaboration with the Course Director over the Spring and Summer of 2007. Additional responsibilities will include preparation time for in-class meetings (such as lectures, tutorials, review sessions, discussion sections, and lab sessions), grading, office hours and lecture attendance.

Qualifications
Requirements for the position include:
• Must have recently completed Principles of Population Health Science (795)
Preference will be given to applicants who:
• Are enrolled in the PhD program in Population Health and have completed their comprehensive exams (1st year)

Please contact Dr. Witt (wwitt@wisc.edu), the 2007 PHS 795 Course Director, to apply or to obtain more information.

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Send us your announcements and we will include them in the next issue of the Program Update. Send your announcements to us at lmsteiner@wisc.edu.

All announcements we receive that appear relevant to students, faculty and/or staff are included in the program update. Inclusion of an announcement in the program update does not imply endorsement of it.

	Population Health Graduate Program Update
	May 1, 2007
Informational Websites Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Demography and Ecology Demography of Health and Aging Economics Environmental Studies Institute for Research on Poverty Seminars La Follette School of Public Affairs Sociology Statistics Transdisciplinary Studies of Health and Society Working Group Counseling and Consultation Services Graduate School Graduate Student Council Software Training for Students Teaching Assistants' Association (TAA) TAA Contract Writing Center Classes	Important Program Reminders Recognition Departmental Seminars Other Opportunities & Updates Important Program Reminders Spring 2007 Graduates If you intend to graduate in May, please remember that you must complete your defense and have your warrant signed no later than Friday, May 18th. If circumstances occur where this is not possible, you can change the term on your warrant to summer 2007. If you finish during the summer window period (on or before June 15), summer course registration is NOT required (however, your degree would be considered earned during the summer term). If you finish after the summer window (after June 15), please see the summer enrollment requirements below. Please also remember to submit a CD copy as well as bound copy of your thesis or dissertation to the Graduate Program Office (WARF 740). For further details, please review the thesis and dissertation sections of the Population Health MS/PhD Academic Guide at http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/info_curr_grad.htm Summer 2007 Graduates As a reminder, if you intend to graduate over the summer (in August) please remember that you must be enrolled in 2 graduate-level credits as a Master’s student or 3 graduate-level credits as a Ph.D. student. The credits should be taken in the eight-week general summer session. In addition, audit and pass/fail courses do not satisfy this enrollment requirement. These are requirements taken from the Graduate School’s Academic Guidelines: http://www.wisc.edu/grad/guidelines/glossindex.html#171 Summer 2007 Course Enrollment Am I required to enroll for courses over the summer? Yes, if you intend to graduate in the summer (in August); please see above. The answer also may be “yes” depending on the job appointment you have over the summer. Please review your job appointment letter as well as the requirements listed in the Graduate School’s Academic Guidelines at: http://www.wisc.edu/grad/guidelines/glossindex.html#171 The Summer enrollment period began Monday, March 26. There are no general enrollment holds for summer; thus, there is not a Summer Advising Form to complete. However, if you intend to enroll in a summer 699 or 990 course, you will need to complete a 699/990 Authorization Form for each relevant course. The 699/990 Authorization Form needs to be signed by the instructor overseeing the work of the 699 or 990 course and turned in to Lisa Steiner’s mailbox (7th floor WARF). These forms are available at: http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/info_curr_grad.htm Student Publications, Awards, and Honors Please report to Kelly Haslam at haslam@wisc.edu any publications, awards, and honors you have received during your tenure with the graduate program. The department would like to keep track of the scientific production and achievements of its students as well as recognize all your accomplishments. When submitting your information, please indicate if you prefer your name to be withheld should the information be included on the web or in a program newsletter. Thank you in advance for helping us compile this information! Other Program and Graduate School Guidelines For further information on program or graduate school issues, please refer to the Population Health MS/PhD Academic Guide at http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/info_curr_grad.htm or the Graduate School Academic Guidelines at http://www.wisc.edu/grad/guidelines/glossindex.html . Recognition Elect a Nominee for Donn D’Alessio Student Award Nominations are posted on the PHS Student Organization bulletin board and are also posted on the web at: http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/grad/fin_don_dal.htm . All students are eligible to vote and may do so by going to Kelly Haslam’s office (Room 744) beginning on Monday, April 30 and no later than 4:00 pm on Wednesday, May 9. The prize will be a book selected by the winner (up to $200 in value) and will be awarded at the Graduation Luncheon. To be selected a student must demonstrate: 1. Outstanding activities indicative of good citizenship as a member of this Department's student, faculty and academic staff community. 2. A history of excellence in research and academics, and of active sharing of this knowledge base with fellow students through formal and informal activities. 3. Active involvement in student affairs and the PHS Student Organization. Population Health Interview For the inside scoop on Population Health students and staff... This month's feature: Denny Fryback, Population Health Professor We understand you are planning on retirement later this year. Can you share with us some of your retirement plans? Judy and I are moving to Huntington Beach, California, which is on the coast south of Los Angeles. We own a condo on the ocean there that used to be Judy's family's home, and we have family and friends from San Diego, California, to Bellingham, Washington, all up and down the west coast. We'll move sometime around Christmas or New Years. I'll remain affiliated with the UW and PHS, and I hope to continue working about 40% time with my research group until the grant runs out sometime in 2009. Since the grant funds two projects at UCLA and one at UCSD, I'll be a visiting faculty member at UCLA in 2008 and use my time to help them catch up to the fast pace that we've set here at UW. In the 2009/10 academic year I've got an opportunity to be a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and I'd like use it to write a book about measuring health. So "retiring" is in part just an opportunity to work on things that I really like to do and say "no" to other stuff. And it is an opportunity to travel more. I'll be 60 years old this year -- the leading edge of the baby boom -- and after 33 years at UW it seems like a good time to change venues so I can have one more opportunity to reinvent myself. What do you feel were some of your most significant achievements during your career in Population Health. It was great to be a part of a department in evolution, and to play a small role in a terrific program in health administration and administrative medicine in the early history of the department, and in the transition to our being a program in Population Health with the MS/PhD program. This is the work of many people and we collectively should be very proud that we have produced this wonderful thing! I've been lucky to have great students; helping them start careers is very rewarding and what they will do is far more than what I've done. Where are your favorite travel destinations? Gosh. There are a lot. I really enjoy Cape Town, South Africa, where I was an exchange student in high school. I like York, England. But I also love the US northwest where I grew up in Oregon. And the 'four corners' area where New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado come together. But then I'd always go back to Badlands National Park in South Dakota too. I guess I like traveling just about anywhere! What is your idea of perfect happiness? I don't have one idea of perfect happiness. There are moments that I really treasure in my mind: A perfectly still and clear, moonless night with Saturn at 400X in the eyepiece of my telescope and Mozart playing in my headphones comes to mind. Then there was the perfect August night when the moon went into total eclipse and the stars came out like they were 3-dimensional. Or a time out sailing with a great friend when the wind was strong but didn't touch the water so the lake surface was like a mirror and we buried the rail of the boat making 8 knots. Or watching a great sunset with my wife from the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Or finding the exact perfect wine to match a great cheese. Or sitting down with a good book on history of science, or 'hard-science' science fiction. Or wandering a great art museum or science and technology museum. Or finding a really interesting fossil. But I could equally say that perfect happiness is sitting down to my computer with a brand new data set no one has seen before and saying, "Now, let's see what we've got!" Who are the heroes in your life? My parents are heroes to me, and a couple of mentors (Jack Thornbury, Lee Lusted) I've had . But really, what I really admire is anyone with a talent, who loves to use that talent and who uses it well: scientists, writers, artists, thinkers, story tellers, activists, musicians, healers, athletes, housepainters, plumbers, parents -- it doesn't matter to me quite what it is. People who make the best of their talent and who love using it to good purpose are my heroes. Tell us a little about your research interests or areas of expertise. My interests have evolved over the years. I was trained in mathematical psychology (my undergrad degree is a dual major in psychology and math from UCLA, and my MA is in mathematics and my PhD is in psychology from Michigan) -- specializing in theories of measurement and decision making. In the late 1970s applying decision analysis to medical decision problems was where I wanted to be. It was great because all the important things about it, probabilities and how we value outcomes, were subjective and hard to measure. Gradually I became more and more interested in using the apparatus of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis for evaluating medical technologies. Now, I think the frontier where I can have most impact is in helping to standardize measures of health outcomes. These all may sound different, but they really are a continuum along which I've traveled. Along the way I got involved in a number of things that have really been fun: I helped to found the Society for Medical Decision Making, and edited their journal for several years. I got to spend a year of leave from UW at the National Library of Medicine and was the "inside man" helping to change the MeSH term "sensitivity" from meaning an allergic reaction to meaning the sensitivity of a test, thereby helping medical decision analysts ever since be able to search the literature for this critical piece of data for many decision analyses. I also got to dabble in artificial intelligence for medical diagnosis at NLM, and later, with a colleague in Industrial Engineering wrote a computer program for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to use data about the 12000 miles of state-maintained highways that used AI to diagnosis the problem with failing pavements and to use decision analysis to optimize highway repairs over a 6-year rolling horizon. We figured this saved Wisconsin several million dollars a year for maybe 10 years. In the early 1990s I got invited to be a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force because they wanted a methodologist to help evaluate preventive interventions. That was a real education for me! At the same time I was invited to be on the US Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine, and that turned into a 4 year seminar in health economics with some of the best minds in the country -- again a great education!! I tell people to be open to these sorts of experiences and to grab them when the come by. They may not be exactly in your area, but you will grow with them and have fun learning. A lucky person will get 2 or 3 of these in a career. I've been very, very lucky! Thanks, Denny! AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship Awarded Congratulations to Salwa Massad for her selection as an American Association of University Women International Doctoral Fellow Award for the 2007-08 school year. She is among 65 women selected from 957 applicants to receive an award. Since AAUW began providing fellowships to women in 1888, over $35 million dollars has been awarded to outstanding women scholars from over 135 countries. Salwa joins the ranks of women who are leaders and role models worldwide. Read more about the AAUW Fellowhip awards at http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/index.cfm Congratulations, Salwa! Anderson Chosen as Guggenheim Fellow Professor Warwick Anderson is among three professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison chosen for a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, which recognize artists, scholars, and scientists based on distinguished past achievement and exceptional future promise. The UW professors are among 189 individuals selected by the Guggenheim Foundation from a pool of nearly 2,800 applicants. Read the complete article... Departmental Seminars Monday Seminar Series http://pophealth.wisc.edu/seminar.htm All regular seminars held 12:00 noon, in Room 1309 Health Sciences Learning Center unless otherwise noted. Seminars on the first Monday of the month are co-sponsored by the UW Population Health Institute. May 7 Michael Rothschild, PhD, Emeritus Professor, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “An Introduction to Social Marketing: Considering its Philosophy and Process as Input to Public Health Practice.” If you have any questions about the departmental seminars, call Patty Grubb at 5-0516 or contact her by e-mail at pagrubb@wisc.edu Wednesday Seminar Series All seminars are held from 12:00-1:00 PM in 132 WARF unless otherwise indicated. May 2 Brent Johnson: "Physical activity and function in older, long-term colorectal cancer survivors" May 9 Jessica Schumacher: "The Effect of a Cancer Diagnosis on Health Care Utilization" Other Opportunities & Updates Kinesiology Seminar Thursday, May 3rd, 4PM Room 1140, Natatorium Dr. Ed Howley, University of Tennessee, will give the inaugural Henry Montoye-Francis Nagle Lecture entitled: " Physical Activity: How much is enough?" Dr. Howley has co-authored two textbooks on fitness and exercise and currently serves as editor in chief of the American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Fitness Journal. The Montoye-Nagle lecture series was established to honor the contributions to the UW-Madison Department of Kinesiology of Professors Emeriti Henry Montoye and Francis J. Nagle. Refreshments will be served. Questions? Contact Gary Diffee at diffee@education.wisc.edu. Population Health Sciences Teaching Assistant (TA) Opportunity PHS 797, “Introduction to Epidemiology” Fall Semester 2007: September 4, 2007 – December 14, 2007 Responsibilities include: • Attend lecture Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15 • Lead discussion sections • Hold office hours • Meet weekly with course instructor • Assist with grading and maintaining course website Requirements: • Completed PHS 797 • Strong communication skills • Preference will be given to graduate students in Population Health Sciences Compensation: • 50% appointment (20 hours/week) • Includes tuition waiver • Pay rate dependent upon experience To Apply: Contact Halcyon Skinner Email hgskinner@wisc.edu Office WARF 1007B Telephone 265-4654 Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Position for 2007 Principles of Population Health Science (795) Overview The Department of Population Health Sciences is seeking a Graduate Teaching Assistant to help with the development and instruction of the 2007 Principles of Population Health Science (795) Course (Fall). The purpose of this course is to provide students with a foundation for understanding: 1) how population health is defined and measured; 2) the biological, cultural, social, economic, and healthcare determinants of population health; 3) the research development and design for studying population health; and 4) prevention and intervention strategies for improving population health. Position Description Teaching Assistant responsibilities will involve the development of course materials. These development and “course construction” activities will be conducted in collaboration with the Course Director over the Spring and Summer of 2007. Additional responsibilities will include preparation time for in-class meetings (such as lectures, tutorials, review sessions, discussion sections, and lab sessions), grading, office hours and lecture attendance. Qualifications Requirements for the position include: • Must have recently completed Principles of Population Health Science (795) Preference will be given to applicants who: • Are enrolled in the PhD program in Population Health and have completed their comprehensive exams (1st year) Please contact Dr. Witt (wwitt@wisc.edu), the 2007 PHS 795 Course Director, to apply or to obtain more information. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send us your announcements and we will include them in the next issue of the Program Update. Send your announcements to us at lmsteiner@wisc.edu. All announcements we receive that appear relevant to students, faculty and/or staff are included in the program update. Inclusion of an announcement in the program update does not imply endorsement of it.

Population Health

Graduate Program Update

Informational Websites

Demography and EcologyDemography of Health

http://pophealth.wisc.edu/seminar.htm

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Websites

Demography and Ecology

Demography of Health