Pre-registration Required:
Institue members can register for this series of workshops by contacting Peg Polansky at 932-8415.

Pre-registration Required:
Institue members can register for this series of workshops by contacting Peg Polansky at 932-8415.

Pre-registration Required:
Institue members can register for this series of workshops by contacting Peg Polansky at 932-8415.

In this workshop, I will cover material such as systematic description of a table or chart, guidelines for writing about statistical significance, describing interactions, and building the case for a multivariate model. Some basic principles of writing with and about numbers will also be discussed. The presentation should be useful for people who need to communicate the results of their analyses to audiences whose statistical ability (and interest!) ranges from minimal to high, and in formats that range from policy briefs to detailed academic articles or analytic reports.

A social epidemiologist, Dr. James has devoted much of his career to studying racial and ethnic health disparities with emphasis on the interplay among socioeconomic, psychological, and behavioral risk factors. He originated the concept of "John Henryism" where prolonged, high-effort coping with systemic social and economic distress contributes to the high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially hypertension, in poor and working-class African-Americans. Dr. James is the principal investigator for the University of Michigan's School of Public Health component of the REACH Detroit Project, a four-year (2000-04), community intervention aimed at eliminating health disparities due to diabetes and CVD in Detroit's African-American and Latino communities. Determinants of the health of US racial and ethnic minorities, including recent immigrant populations, is a major focus of his yearly seminar in Social Epidemiology.

Taissa S. Hauser is Associate Research Scientist, Center for Demography of Health and Aging and Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has carried out and directed data collection, management, documentation, and outreach activities of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study since 1970. She is co-investigator in the round of WLS survey data collection planned for 2002-2003 and in a related program of projects.

Results from a Study of Newark School-Based Clinics: A Case Study in State Health Policy Analysis
Brown Bag Seminar Series

Most of Dr. Geiger's professional career has been devoted to the problems of health, poverty, and human rights. He initiated the community health center model in the U.S., combining community-oriented primary care, public health interventions, and civil rights and community empowerment and development initiatives, and was a leader in the development of the national health center network of more than 800 urban, rural, and migrant centers currently serving some nine million low-income patients. From 1965-71, he was Co-Director and then Director of the first urban and first rural health centers in the U.S., at Columbia Point, Boston, and Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

Contact Peg Polansky (mpolansky@ihhcpar.rutgers.edu) for reprints.

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: The other cluster of issues are centered around evolutionary psychology, the view that the mind consists primarity of a cluster of mental "organs" or "modules" that were shaped by natural selection to solve specific specific adaptive problems. I am particularly interested in the implications of evolutionary psychology in epistemology, ethics and psychotherapy.

Copies of the Surgeon General’s Report and the Special Issue can be borrowed from Fran Teeple in the main building of the Institute, 30 College Avenue. Please return these materials at the discussion session. Materials for the May 13th discussion will be available at this session.

The last two papers in this volume address the study of cultural syndromes among Latinos and provide new insights and approaches for examining these categories. At the end of this session, we will plan future sessions.