Nov. 18 Public Health Forum: Promising Approaches to Prevention
On Wednesday, November 18, join Debra Furr-Holden, assistant professor in the Mental Health Department at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as she presents a talk on “Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol, and Other Drug Prevention.”
Her presentation will look at the geographic distribution and determinants of violence, alcohol and other drug problems, and cover new environmental assessment and analytic methods that integrate geographic information system technology with biobehavioral research. Implications for policy and environmental preventive intervention strategies will also be discussed.
Furr-Holden is an epidemiologist by training with expertise in drug and alcohol dependence epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, prevention science and psychosocial measurement. In the last 5 years her work has focused largely on developing environmental strategies for violence, alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention in high-risk urban settings. Furr-Holden also initiated the Drug Investigations, Violence and Environmental Studies Laboratory (The DIVE Studies Lab) in Baltimore, Maryland, which seeks to provide contextual insight on violence and alcohol and other drug exposure among Baltimore city youth.
The BUSPH Public Health Forum is a regular series presented by the School of Public Health. It is free and open to the public
BUSPH Public Health Forum: “Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol, and Other Drug Prevention”
- Speakers: Debra Furr-Holden, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Date: November 18, 2009
- Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Location: BUSM Instructional Building, Room L-112
For more information, contact Lizzy Romero, eromero@bu.edu
Students are also welcome to join Dr. Furr-Holden for an informal meet and greet session from 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. in room R110.