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Leading epidemiologist to bring attention to population health research at Delta Omega Lecture on March 16
March 1, 2012
Dr. Ana Diez Roux, director of the Center for
Social Epidemiology and Population Health
at the University of Michigan's School of
Public Health, will be the featured speaker for
the 2012 Delta Omega Lecture.
Internationally known epidemiologist Dr. Ana Diez Roux will be the featured guest speaker for the Delta Omega Lecture of the Arnold School of Public Health at noon on Friday, March 16.
The event, which will be held in the Gressette Room of Harper College on the University of South Carolina's historic Horseshoe, is free and open to the University community and the public.
The title of the program is "Transcending Impasses in Population Health Research: Can Complex Systems Help?"
A professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Diez Roux is a research professor in the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research. She also is director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at the University of Michigan.
Diez Roux has been an international leader in the investigation of the social determinants of health, the application of multilevel analysis in health research, and the study of neighborhood health effects. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology.
Recent areas of work include social environment-gene interactions and the use of complex systems approaches in population health. Her research and other scholarly programs are supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Diez Roux has an impressive background in medicine and public health. She earned her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires and was chief resident of general pediatrics at the Ricardo Gutierrez Children's Hospital. Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Diez Roux was an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and an assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
She earned a master's degree in public health and a doctorate in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
