CHET Speaker Series: Jessica Thompson, M.Ed.

CHET will be hosting visiting doctoral candidate Jessica Thompson, M.Ed., for a talk February 13th entitled, "Contextualizing Cardiovascular Disease among Rural Appalachian Women: What Methods Should We Use?" Ms. Thompson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Her research interests include community-engaged approaches, chronic disease prevention, rural and Appalachian women’s health, mixed method research, and systems science approaches to community health research. The talk will take place Thursday February 13th from 9:00-10:00am in Room 104 of the Medical Behavioral Science Building.