Public Health Week ...

The Department of Public Health Science is celebrating National Public Health Week, April 5-11, with a symposium and two movie nights, all free. The symposium, “A Healthier America — One Community at a Time,” is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. April 6 in the auditorium of the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility.

Organizers said Mark Horton, director of the California Department of Public Health, will deliver the keynote: “Promoting Health Through Healthy Communities.”

The program also includes four speakers from UC Davis: Thomas Nesbitt, associate vice chancellor, School of Medicine: “Public Health at UC Davis”; Heather Young, professor, associate vice chancellor and dean, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing: “Community Strategies for Older Adults and Rural Dwellers”; Kathryn Dewey, nutrition professor, speaking about the Program in International and Community Nutrition, of which she is the director; and Cheryl Scott, speaking about the One Health Project, of which she is the director.

The program also includes Yolo County Health Officer Joseph Iser, giving a talk titled “County Public Health: Notes From the Edge.”

The free movie nights:

• April 7 — “Becoming American,” part of the PBS documentary series Unnatural Causes, exploring racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health. 6:10 p.m., 180 Med Sci 1C.

• April 8 — “Rise of the Super Bugs,” part of the PBS series RX for Survival. 6:10 p.m., 180 Med Sci 1C.

... and mental health, too

“Healthy Minds Across America” is the theme for three symposia on April 10, free and open to the public, under the sponsorship of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

• 1 p.m. — Kimberly McAllister: “The Importance of Mental Health Research — Understanding the Causes of Schizophrenia and Autism.”

• 2 p.m. — Michael Minzenberg: “New Directions in Mental Health — New Treatments and How They Work.”

• 3 p.m. — Cameron Carter: “Translating Basic Research to the Clinic.”

All three programs are set to take place at the MIND Institute, 2825 50th St., Sacramento.

Policy and obesity

Registration is under way for a two-day workshop on government policies on farming and food, and the role that such policies play in obesity — by affecting the prices of food and beverages or the commodities used to produce those products.

The workshop is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 21 and 7:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 22 at the Conference Center, with the public invited to attend both (including the more technical May 22 session).

UC Davis speakers: Professor Judy Stern, Nutrition and Internal Medicine-Division of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism; Professor Julian M. Alston, Agricultural and Resource Economics; and Lucia Kaiser, associate nutrition specialist.

The fee is $95 if paid by April 15, or $145 thereafter. Registration and more information: aic.ucdavis.edu/obesity.

Alum and Aggienaut Stephen Robinson to participate in open forum and give a lecture, April 9.

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