Please join us for the DrPH Coalition's 3rd Annual Conference, The DrPH: Our Time is Now
Speakers: Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM (Friday)
Dr. Christina Welter, DrPH, MPH (Saturday)
Conference Date and Time:
Friday, October 15, 2021 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST and
Saturday, October 16, 2021 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
The COVID-19 pandemic and other social and political crises have impacted the field of public health and changed the way we work, research, and collaborate. Now more than ever, it is critical for us to tell our stories as individual DrPHers and as a community in a compelling and authentic way to advocate for the public's health and elevate the DrPH degree. Join us for this two-day, interactive conference with opportunities to network, learn, discuss and workshop with DrPH students and alumni. Together, we will work towards creating a unified voice behind the DrPH as leading public health during these tumultuous times.
This event is FREE to DrPH Coalition Members. For non-members, the fee for this conference is $15.00.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You can register on Wild Apricot! If you have any questions about registration or the conference, please contact us at president@drphcoalition.org. Hope to see you there!
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Speaker Bios
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo
Dr. Nuzzo is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), with joint appointments in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. An epidemiologist by training, her work focuses on global health security, with a focus on pandemic preparedness, outbreak detection and response, health systems as they relate to global health security, biosurveillance, and infectious disease diagnostics. She directs the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts, in partnership with frontline public health practitioners, operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response.
Dr. Nuzzo is also the lead epidemiologist for the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Testing Insights Initiative housed within the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Together with colleagues from the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Economist Intelligence Unit, she coleads the development of the first-ever Global Health Security Index, which benchmarks 195 countries’ public health and healthcare capacities and capabilities, their commitment to international norms and global health security financing, and socioeconomic, political, and environmental risk environments. Previously, she conducted research related to the Affordable Care Act, tuberculosis control, foodborne outbreaks, and water security. Dr. Nuzzo is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security.
Dr. Christina Welter, DrPH, MPH
Dr. Welter is a nationally recognized policy practitioner, visionary leader, and practice-based researcher committed to helping organizations and their partners co-create equity-focused systems change. She is the Director of the Doctorate in Public Health Leadership and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health. Dr. Welter specializes in engaged and applied mixed method research that promotes collaborative learning to develop, implement, and/or evaluate policy and systems initiatives that address the structural determinants of health.
A few of Dr. Welter’s current projects include serving as a Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health funded Center for Healthy Work where she conducts an action research project to increase policy and systems strategies that addresses precarious work. She also serves as the Associate Director and Translation Investigator of the Centers for Disease Control-funded Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center where she studies governmental public health agency readiness for strategic transformation. Dr. Welter is also currently leading the evaluation for the Cook County Department of Public Health’s Contract Tracing initiative, focused on a racial justice, community mobilization and worker-centered approach to Covid-19. Dr. Welter proudly served as one of the Deputy Incident Commanders for the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Covid-19 response Spring, 2020, helping the state to expand its strategic management and policy responses to the virus.
Prior to coming to UIC, Dr. Welter served as the Deputy Director at the Cook County Department of Public Health where she catalyzed the establishment of several ongoing and award-winning leadership collaboratives and secured over 25 million dollars in funding to implement policy, systems, and environmental changes initiatives. She received her DrPH degree from the UIC School of Public Health and her MPH from the University of Michigan in Health Education and Health Behavior.
