Wednesday, August 28, 2013

EdX -- Free online courses from the world's top schools

Visit EdX to take courses from the world's top universities. Here is a link to the site and information about how it works https://www.edx.org/how-it-works 

Health and Society, a course by Harvard Professor of Epidemiology, Ichiro Kawachi, may be of interest to you. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the major social variables that affect population health. This is just one example of the many courses available on the website. 



Friday, August 16, 2013

Conference: The Affordable Care Act & Low Income Populations: Lessons from and Challenges for Research

Additional Information:
http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/aca_conference

Description:
When: November 1, 2013
8:00am-5:00pm
Where: Memorial Union II -- UC Davis Campus

Save the Date for the Center for Poverty Research’s conference on the Affordable Care Act and the poor. The conference will feature research highlighting what we already know about likely effects of the ACA on the poor and a panel discussion of the most critical new directions for research as the ACA is rolled out. The conference will take place in the MU II on the UC Davis campus on Friday, November 1, 2013.