Older Adults in Louisiana: Observations and Conversations after a Disaster
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Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1440 Canal Street Tidewater Building, Room 1204 New Orleans, Louisiana 70112Description
The Aging is Public Health 2019-2020 Seminar Series proudly presents "Older Adults in Louisiana: Observations and Conversations after a Disaster" featuring Dr. Katie E. Cherry, Professor of Psychology and a founding member of the LSU Life Course and Aging Center.
After a successful Fall series of four seminars, this is the first of three seminars during the Spring series in the Aging is Public Health 2019-2020 Seminar Series at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In addition to our faculty, staff, and students of both downtown and uptown Tulane University campuses, this series is open to members of the New Orleans community to encourage participants to examine their work with a lens of aging and to consider aging as the future of life and work opportunities.
This series is only possible with the generous support of following Tulane University sponsors: Delta Omega Honorary Society, One Health Club, Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking, Tulane Nutrition, the Thomas C. Keller Professorship, the Weatherhead Visiting Professorship, and the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Student Government Association.
THIS SERIES IS FREE AND ALL ARE WELCOME. Please RSVP here. There will be a light lunch served.
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Hannah Kaufman is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences. She served as a 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student Researcher in Paraguay while conducting fieldwork for her doctoral dissertation, “Social Determinants of Positive Health Perceptions by Older Adults in Paraguay.” Ms. Kaufman lived and worked with Peace Corps in Paraguay with a focus on rural health and sanitation from 2008 to 2012 before receiving her Master of Public Health from Tulane University in 2015. Today her research interests focus on health equity and access among vulnerable and marginalized populations in Paraguay, Latin America and Latinos in the United States, specifically the social determinants of health, and the needs of aging populations and the societies in which they are aging.