Public Health Grand Rounds - Education - Center for Community Health & Prevention

Below you can find available videos and slides from past presentations organized by discussion topic.

Health Equity and Justice

• 9/26/25 – Alejandra Hurtado de Mendoza, PhD: Addressing Disparities in Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment through Community Engaged Research

• 4/4/25 – Rev. Myra Brown: Rochester Guaranteed Basic Income to Living Water GBI Program

• 10/25/24 – Megan Lytle, PhD, Betty Webb, CHES: Patient-Centered Care for Trans and Gender Diverse Individuals

• 4/19/24 – Michelle A. Williams, ScD: Bold Steps American Health Care Systems Must Take to Ensure an Equitable and Healthier Future

• 4/5/24 – Julia Iyasere, MD, MBA: Advancing Health Justice Through Data: Dalio Center for Health Justice

• 12/1/23 – Maureen R. Benjamins, PhD: Unequal Cities, Structural Racism, and the Death Gap in America’s Largest Cities

• 11/3/23: Naomi Lee, PhD, CPH: The More You Know...About HPV and Cervical Cancer in Native American Communities

• 2/17/23 – Edith Williams, PhD, and Theresea Green, PhD, MBA: Progress Report: URMC Equity and Anti Racism Action Plan

• 11/4/22 – URMC Equity and Anti Racism Action Plan Panel: URMC Equity and Anti Racism Action Plan

• 1/20/22 – Jonathan Jackson, PhD: Towards a Quantifiable Science of Research Equity

• 1/7/22: Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS: Special Session Supplement: "Joy in the Journey: Triumphs in lessons learned along the way"

• 12/2/21 – Dean S. Seneca, MPH, MCURP and Rohsennase Dalton LaBarge: Historical Trauma and the Health Disparities that Perpetuate in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities

• 10/1/21 – Wade Norwood, CEO, Common Ground Health: The Color of Health: The Devastating Toll of Racism on Black Lives

"The Color of Health:The Devastating Toll of Racism on Black Lives" Report

• 3/19/21: Stephanie Townsend, PhD: Commission on Racial and Structural Equity, Our City. Our County. United for Change.

• 2/19/21 – Amy JH Kind, MD, PhD: Aligning Towards Action in Social Determinants of Health Research: The Neighborhood Atlas

Maternal Health and Equity

• 11/12/25 – Leseliey Welch MBA, MPH, Special Public Health Grand Rounds, Dr. Bernard Guyer Lecture Series: Beloved Birth 50 by 50: An Invitation to Courageous Collective Action

• 10/24/25 – Angela Odoms Young, PhD: Transforming Nutrition Across the Life Course: Applying Targeted Universalism to Improve Racial and Socioeconomic Gaps in Maternal and Child Health

• 11/19/24 – Dorcey L. Applyrs, DrPH, MPH: Are Black Women Safe Giving Birth: The Hard Truth of How Racism and Discrimination Perpetuate Disparities in Maternal Mortality

• 12/9/22 – Lisa Harris, MD, PhD: From Politics Towards Care: Talking about Abortion as a Health and Public Health Issue

• 10/7/22 – Stefanie Hollenbach, MD, MS: Modern Echoes of Historic Institutionalized Racism: Associations Between Previously Redlined Districts and Current Obstetric Outcomes

• 3/18/22 – Ndidiamaka Amutah Onukagha, MD: Black Women and Maternal Health Disparities: Addressing the Role of Racism

Child and Family Health

• 10/24/25 – Angela Odoms Young, PhD: Transforming Nutrition Across the Life Course: Applying Targeted Universalism to Improve Racial and Socioeconomic Gaps in Maternal and Child Health

• 3/7/25 – Joseph McFall, PhD; Kristin Lynch, MS, CCC SLP; Matthew Tae, BA: Children’s Institute and Get Ready to GROW: Supporting Child Development in Monroe County

• 11/15/24 – Jennie Noll, PhD: Making Greater Rochester Safer and Healthier with Cutting Edge Research and Child Abuse Prevention Efforts

• 2/16/24 – Mary T. Caserta, MD: A New Era of RSV Prevention

• 2/3/23 – David Figlio, PhD: How Population Level Matched Birth School Administrative Records Can Address Public Health and Education Policy Questions

Public Health and One Health

• 9/12/25 – Marielena Vélez de Brown, MD, MPH: The Public Health Landscape in Monroe County and Beyond

• 5/9/25: Janette Berkley-Patton, PhD: Dr. David Satcher Community Health Improvement Awards & Special Public Health Grand Rounds: Engaging Community and Health Partners in Designing and Delivering Large-Scale Health Interventions for Increased Reach, Influence and Impact

• 9/20/24 – Marielena Vélez de Brown, MD, MPH: Public Health and Cross-Sector Collaboration: Continued Progress Towards Whole Health

• 9/29/23: Martin Shapiro,MD, PhD, MPH: The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions

• 9/15/23: Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH: Public Health in Monroe County: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future

• 4/21/23: Andrea Garroway, PhD: Strategies for Effective Partnership and Communication in Healthcare

• 3/3/23: URochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Candidates for Distinction in Community Health: Mariah Erlick ’23, Kiersten Flodman ’23, Shane Fuentes ’23, Nilsa Ricci ’23, and Valentina Sedlacek ’23: Medical Students and Community Engagement: Partnerships for Health

• 9/16/22 – Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH: Public Health in Monroe County: Past, Present and Future

• 4/1/22: Michael Waller, PhD: Sustainability in Healthcare

• 2/4/22: Daniel G Petereit, MD: Walking Forward: Collaborating at the Community Level to Advance Cancer Control in the Northern Plains American Indians

• 12/3/21 – Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH: Making the Most of a Global Pandemic

• 11/19/21 – Jeff Wyatt, DVM, MPH: One Health Initiative in Borneo: Transforming Community Health and Saving Endangered Orangutans

• 11/5/21 – Jane Hoppin, ScD: Responding to Community Concerns about Chemical Exposure: The GenX Exposure Study

Social Drivers - Housing, Food, and Education

• 2/7/25 – Heather Busick, MD; Hannah Grisewood, RN, BC; Taylor Harrison, MHA: Social Drivers Determine Health: A Technology Response to Health Related Social Needs

• 5/3/24 - Kelly M Luther, LMSW, Peg Bierley, LMSW, Lisa Lewis, MPA, Kathy Curtis-Rubin, RN: Transitional Supportive Housing and Community Partnerships

• 3/1/24 –Marlene Blocker; Jodi Cook; Maria A. Marconi, EdD, RN; Emily Murphy; Ashwani Sharma, MD; Elizabeth Cox, MD; Annabelle Kleist, PhD: EAST High School and University of Rochester Collaborations Panel

• 3/17/23 – Mahala Schlagman, MD and Rebecca Russo: Medical Legal Partnership: A Tool for Community Advocacy

• 2/18/22 – Wendy Parisi, MS; Amy Woods, MPH; Mitch Gruber, PhD; Laura Ballou, MSW; Eugene Vogler: A Tale of Two Pantries: Partnering with the Community to Address Local Food Insecurity

• 4/2/21 – Moderator: Katrina Smith Korfmacher, PhD, Speaker: Elijah de la Campa, PhD, Panelists: Nadine D. Hylton, PhD; Mark Muoio; John Oster; Denise Read: Housing and Health in a Pandemic: A Public Health Perspective on Rochester’s Looming Eviction Crisis

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Behavioral Health and Trauma

• 2/2/24 – Sandhya Seshadri, PhD and Rev. Kelly Spahr, MDiv: Loneliness of the Long-Term Caregiver: Exploring Connections for the Disconnected Caregivers of Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy-body Dementia Patients.

• 11/17/23 – Alisha Moreland Capuia, MD: Building Trauma Informed Organizations and People: Why Healing Must Be the Way Forward

• 3/31/23 – Holly Russell, MD and Jade Malcho, MD: Opioid Safety at UR Medicine

• 4/22/22 – Jessica Watington; Meghan Jenner, LCSW; Jason Teller BA, CASAC: Changing Times: Behavioral Health in Monroe County

Violence Prevention

• 12/6/24 – Gale Burstein, MD, PhD, FAAP, Ryan Belka Esq., Spencer Cantrell, Nina Agrawal, MD, Shannon Frattaroli: Extreme Risk Protection Orders: A New Gun Violence Prevention Tool for Healthcare

Additional Resources:

• 10/20/23 – Irshad Altheimer, PhD: Assessing Gaps in Services for Violence Victims and How We Can Fix Them

• 11/18/22 – Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH: Public Health Grand Rounds and 11th Annual Bernard Guyer Lecture on Gun Violence and Prevention

Innovation, Data, and Technology

• 5/2/25 – Benjamín Castañeda, MS, PhD: Developing Technologies for Inclusive Medical Care in Rural Peru

• 2/7/25 – Heather Busick, MD; Hannah Grisewood, RN, BC; Taylor Harrison, MHA: Social Drivers Determine Health: A Technology Response to Health Related Social Needs

• 3/4/22 – Heather Reyes, MD: Social and Emotional Learning Tool via Moxie the Robot

• 10/15/21 – Abigail Zuger, MD: Public Health at the Bathroom Sink: Home Testing for Contagious Disease

• 9/17/21 – Heather J. Busick, MD: The HEART of the Matter: Leveraging Our Electronic Health Record to Address Health Inequities

• 4/16/21 – Girmay Berhie, PhD: Managing Epidemics with Consumer Wearables

Health Policy and Systems

• 12/5/25 – Joshua Farrelman: View from Washington and Albany

• 2/21/25 – Jamie Druckman and Cameron Hecht: Interventions to Strengthen Democracy

• 3/17/23 – Mahala Schlagman, MD, and Rebecca Russo: Medical Legal Partnership: A Tool for Community Advocacy

• 12/9/22 – Lisa Harris, MD, PhD: From Politics Towards Care: Talking about Abortion as a Health and Public Health Issue

• 10/21/22 – Abigail McHugh Grifa, PhD: Climate Impacts and Solutions for the Genesee Finger Lakes Region

Aging and Long-Term Care

• 3/21/25 – Michael Alan Anderson, PhD: Encore, Encore: Giving Voice to People Living with Dementia

• 10/11/24 – Ann Marie Cook and Paul L. Caccamise, LMSW, ACSW: Lifespan of Greater Rochester

• 2/2/24 – Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS, and Rev. Kelly Spahr, M.Div., BCC: The Loneliness of the Long-Term Caregiver: Exploring Connections for the Disconnected Caregivers of Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy-body Dementia Patients.

Infectious Disease and Epidemiology

• 11/3/23: Naomi Lee, PhD, CPH: The More You Know...About HPV and Cervical Cancer in Native American Communities

• 12/3/21 – Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH: Making the Most of a Global Pandemic

• 4/16/21 – Girmay Berhie, PhD: Managing Epidemics with Consumer Wearables

• 3/5/21: Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS: Feast and Famine: COVID-19 Vaccine Local Efforts

• 2/5/21 – Marguerite A. Urban, MD: Pandemics and Epidemics: Updates on Sexually Transmitted Infections in 2021

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