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Presenter: Adrienne Cachelin, PhD, Director-SPARC Environmental Justice Lab & Jennifer Follstad Shah, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Environment and Society and SustainabilityDate: 5/16/2024Brief Description: Discusses research on gendered experiences of climate grief and the student experience of climate realities among undergraduate students at the University of Utah.Keywords/Main Subjects: Environmental health, griefCopyright: copyright Adrienne Cachelin and Jennifer Follstad Shah ©2024

Presenter: Brenda Heaton, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services Research Associate Dean for Research – School of DentistryDate: 5/16/2024Brief Description: Discusses the separation of oral health from other healthcare in the United States, its consequences, inequities, and gendered effects.Keywords/Main Subjects: Oral health, health equity, utilization of care, periodontal disease, oral health disparityCopyright: copyright Brenda Heaton ©2024

Moderator: Kirtly Parker-Jones, MDDate: 5/16/2024Brief Description: A three-presentation panel on intersections between environment and mental and physical health followed by a Q&A session with all presenters.Keywords/Main Subjects: Environmental health, mental health, suicide, altitude, depression, anxiety, air pollution, cancerCopyright: copyright Kirtly Parker-Jones, Emily DiBlasi, Shami Kanekar, & Anne Kirchhoff ©2024 First Presentation: Clinical and environmental risk factors in suicide deaths …

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Moderator: Diana Brixner, PhD, Professor, Department of PharmacotherapyDate: 5/16/2024Brief Description: A three-presentation panel on pharmacogenomics testing for medication sensitivities followed by a short Q&A session.Keywords/Main Subjects: Pharmacogenomics, testing, medication sensitivities, research, gendered effects, drug outcomesCopyright: copyright Diana Brixner, Joseph Rower, & Ryan Nelson ©2024 First Presentation: Pharmacogenomics tests that are being done on our patients for understanding their medication …

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Presenter: Kary Woodruff, PhD, RDN, CSSD, Assistant Professor-Department of Nutrition and Intregrative PhysiologyDate: 5/16/2024Brief Description: Discusses weight bias in healthcare, including effectiveness of dieting practices, impact of weight stigma, weight-based discrimination, and a weight-inclusive approach to patient care.Keywords/Main Subjects: Weight bias, dieting, harms of dieting, weight stigma, weight-based discrimination, weight-inclusive healthcare, Health at Every Size (HAES)Copyright: copyright Kary Woodruff ©2024

Presenter: Nicole Mihalopoulos MD, MPH, Chief, Adolescent MedicineDate: 5/16/2024Brief Description: Discusses recent legislative updates regarding transgender health, including hate crime laws, conversion therapy bans, and access to trans healthcare across the United States.Keywords/Main Subjects: Transgender health, legislation, hate crime, conversion therapy ban, transgender healthcare accessCopyright: copyright Nicole Mihalopoulos ©2024

Presenter: Jessica Sanders, PhD, Director of Research-Division of Family Planning Department of OB/GYNDate: 5/16/2024Brief Description: Discusses updates in the reproductive justice sphere since the prior symposium in 2023, including but not limited to abortion access post-Roe, emergency contraception access, and family planning services access.Keywords/Main Subjects: Reproductive justice, emergency contraception, family planning, abortion, abortion access, Roe vs. Wade, Dobbs, post-Roe …

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Presenter: Valerie Ah Chee (Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth Brisbane), Kate Cohen, MD (Ft. Defiance Indian Hospital), & Ernest Harry Begay (Utah Navajo Health System)Date: 10/12/24Brief Description: Discusses the ways in which First Nations communities around the world address stillbirthKeywords/Main Subjects: Equity, traditional practice, First Nations, Indigenous communitiesSlides: View / download (Ah Chee), View / download (Begay)Copyright: copyright Valerie …

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Presenter: Tsegaselassie Workalemahu (University of Utah Health), Naomi Riches (University of Utah Health), & Sarah Lopez (University of Utah Health)Date: 10/12/24Brief Description: Discusses updates from stillbirth equity research.Keywords/Main Subjects: Equity, research, from the fieldSlides: View / downloadCopyright: copyright Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Naomi Riches, & Sarah Lopez ©2024 Tsegaselassie Workalemahu Dr. Workalemahu is a genetic epidemiology researcher in the Stillbirth Research Program, …

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Presenter: Alex Heazell (University of Manchester), Emily Price (Healthy Birth Day, Inc.), Bob Silver (University of Utah), & Adrienne Gordon (University of Sydney)Date: 10/12/24Brief Description: Discusses stillbirth equity through the lens of fetal movement monitoring and existing disparities in recommendations and proceduresKeywords/Main Subjects: Equity, fetal movement monitoringSlides: View / download (Heazell), View / download (Price), View / download (Gordon)Copyright: copyright …

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