Student Conversation with Dr. Karmel Choi (Precision Prevention Program)
Speaker
Dr. Karmel Choi (Director, Precision Prevention Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital)Date & time
Location
This is an in-person event for current U-M students. Light lunch will be provided. This event will not be recorded or livestreamed.
Join Dr. Karmel Choi for a discussion surrounding her health career and the importance of research for her current work at the Precision Prevention Program.
Prof. William Axinn, Interim Director of the International Policy Center (IPC), will serve as moderator.
This event is part of IPC's Global Health Seminar series. At Global Health Seminar sessions, students learn about the impact global health research can have on global health policymaking.
This event is co-sponsored by the Ford School's Career Services office.
About the Speakers
Dr. Karmel Choi is a Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Precision Prevention Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her lab uses interdisciplinary approaches from epidemiology, data science, and statistical genetics to understand the development of depression across the life course (including social and environmental determinants) and identify actionable strategies for early prevention, with a focus on modifiable factors in young people.
Prof. William Axinn is the Ronald and Deborah Freedman Director of the International Hub at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR), Interim Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, a research professor at ISR, a professor in the Department of Sociology, a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and a professor of public policy (by courtesy) at the Ford School. Axinn also serves as co-director of both the Chitwan Valley Family Study and the World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Axinn is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests include: the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, and reproductive and mental health in the United States and Nepal. He also studies the interrelationships between population and the environment and new techniques for the collection of social science data. More recently in his career, Axinn's interests have evolved to include public policy applications of his research. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.
