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Family Science and Public Health: Our Shared Future
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Family Science and Public Health: Our Shared Future - Video Recording

Panel: Robert Gold, Ph.D, University of Maryland.; Elaine Anderson, Ph.D., University of Maryland; Alan Acock, Ph.D, Oregon State University; Kathleen M. Roche, Ph.D., George Washington University

Parenting Styles and Children's Obesity Research: Theoretical and Methodological
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Parenting Styles and Children's Obesity Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues - Video Recording

Thomas Power, Ph.D., Washington State University

Community Capacity Building and Health in the US Military
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Community Capacity Building and Health in the US Military - Video Recording

Jay A. Mancini, A. Laura Arnold, James A. Martin, Gary L. Bowen, Danielle Swick, Anne F. Farrell, Irene Nathan Zipper, Denise Lindley

Childhood Obesity: From the Family Dinner Table to Public Policy
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Childhood Obesity: From the Family Dinner Table to Public Policy - Video Recording

Barbara Fiese, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign and Director of the Family Resiliency Center. Her research focuses on family-level factors that promote health and well-being in children. Under her leadership the Family Resiliency Center is engaged in numerous initiatives related to families, food, and child health.

Alex Ortega
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Immigrant Health

Alex Ortega, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health, Professor of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Health Services

Tai Mendenhall and Betty GreenCrow
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Family Education Diabetes Series: Improving Health Urban-dwelling American Indian Population

Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell
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Interaction of Physical and Mental Health Responses to Family Violence: A Lifespan Approach - Video Recording

Jacquelyn Campbell, Ph.D., Anna D. Wolf Chair and Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, has conducted research in the areas of family violence and health disparities related to trauma since 1980. She has received 10 major NIH, National Institute of Justice or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research grants and published more than 150 articles and seven books on violence against women.

Womb to Womb: The Persisting Influence of Health Disparities Across the Lifecour
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Womb to Womb: The Persisting Influence of Health Disparities Across the Lifecourse - Video Recording

This invited symposium addresses the critical problem of health disparities facing women of color and other women living in the margins of society, and their families. Drs. Norwood and Coehlo will review briefly the literature on health disparities related to women’s health (preconception, prenatal care, infant mortality) and those evidenced in among children with special health care needs.

Joyce Arditti
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Joyce Arditti on parental incarceration

Professor Joyce Arditti at Virginia Tech talks about her research on parental incarceration and the transformative effect it had on her scholarship.  Criminology has long been examined in the social sciences. However, Dr. Arditti has added a family lens to this area of study.  Her ground-breaking research is now published in her new book on parental incarceration.

from RAND report

Home Front: Post-Deployment Mental Health and Divorces

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