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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK: FEATURED EVENT</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Population Health Informatics and the Life Course Perspective on Chronic Disease</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24900">
<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24901">Presented by Russell S. Kirby, PhD, MS, FACE</b></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">When:</span></b><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24907"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple"> </span></b><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24909"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Monday,
April 4th at 6:00 PM</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24912">
</span><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24913"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">Where:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> OHSU Collaborative Life Sciences Building - Room # 3A003A <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24916">
2730 SW Moody Ave, Portland, OR, 97201<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24917">
(take the North Elevators to the 2nd floor)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">*FREE parking available at the Schnitzer Lot</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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***<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">If you are unable to join us in person, this event will be live-streamed via the Internet</span>. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Russell Kirby, PhD, MS, FACE: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Kirby is the Chairman of the Department of Community
and Family Health at the College of Public Health, University of South Florida. Dr. Kirby is a human geographer with extensive training and experience in public health practice, academic medicine, and academic public health. He will discuss population health
informatics as it pertains to health equity, chronic disease and improving outcomes across a person's lifespan.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24943"> social determinants of health framework</b> provides a holistic perspective
for the study of how health promotion and disease prevention can improve population health.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Integrating this framework with the life course perspective can provide powerful insights into the manners by which economic,
social and cultural factors influence the health experiences of the individual, and collectively can enable us to identify interventions and policies that can ameliorate chronic health conditions.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24955"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Population health informatics provides the tools to study the role of social
and physical environmental factors, health behaviors, and genetics in creating the conditions that lead to chronic disease, and the role of health care and public health in improving outcomes across the population. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">While some elements are in place, much work needs to be done to create and maintain the necessary infrastructure for population
health informatics to integrate the necessary data across space, time, and critical domains.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#FF6600">Statewide Public Health Week Event Calendar</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">OPHA is hosting a
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Statewide PHW Event Calendar</a> on our website that will highlight Oregon Public Health Week Events: April 4-10. Whether you're hosting an event or know of one in your community, we invite you to submit all events (big and small) to the online calendar. Let
us help get the word out - OPHA will be promoting Oregon Public Health Week events through our listserv and social media channels leading up to and during PH Week. Visit
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http://www.oregonpublichealth.org/events</a> to check out what's going on near you and get involved!</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24983"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Oregon Public Health Association</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Portland OR 97204<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459353675986_24989">
503-719-5600</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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