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Current Club News for Glohea at Washington-Liberty
Speaker on April 20th: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Ph.D.
Director, Ubicomp Research Lab and Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, USA
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Dr. Ahamed is also an Adjunct Professor in the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a Senior Research Scientist at R2D2 Center of UW Milwaukee and a senior member of the IEEE, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society. His research interests include the power of data in mHealth, building mHealth systems, customized text messaging and affective computing. Currently, he has multiple research grants in building systems to collect data, to analyze data, and to make intelligent decisions for improved health outcomes. Dr. Ahamed has a number of collaborative international mHealth projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, Taiwan and China. He has published over 150 peer reviewed journal articles, as well as conference and workshop papers, and his research and innovation has helped to create startup companies such as Ubitrix and Consciousos.
Speaker on March 23rd: Joshua Sharfstein, MD
Early in his career, Dr. Sharfstein served as health policy advisor to Congressman Henry A. Waxman. Among the issues he worked on were HIV/AIDS, oversight of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), tobacco, and public health.
After the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, Sharfstein served as leader of the Obama transition team on the FDA. In 2009, he was appointed by President Obama as Principal Deputy Commissioner of the FDA.
Dr. Sharfstein, whose early work in politics included work for Public Citizen’s Health Watch, has been a frequent critic of drug industry marketing practices—going all the way back to his days in medical training. During his time as public health commissioner of Baltimore, he led the effort to restrict the marketing of pediatric cold remedies.
Sharfstein has also written articles criticizing the American Medical Association for its pattern of giving campaign contributions to political candidates that take stands the majority of physicians oppose. One of those articles focused on AMA donations to candidates and elected officials who have fought the regulation of tobacco—a position the medical community generally favors and that Dr. Sharfstein has advocated over the years.
He has also come under the ire of anti-vaccine groups because, consistent with the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the vast majority of medical professionals, he has been an ardent supporter of vaccines as an essential part of public health.
Speaker on January 26th: Emily Blagg, MPH
Emily Blagg is as a healthcare consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Health account providing management consulting services to Department of Defense clients. She currently provides chief of staff support to a senior government leader in the Defense Health Agency. Previous work includes leading a team in conducting a mid-term evaluation of the military’s COVID-19 response and serving as the Education and Community Management Specialist for a Department of Defense global health office. She received her B.A in Anthropology and Global Health from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Public Health concentrating in humanitarian health and evaluation of international health programs from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
December 15th: First Guest Speaker
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