Join the Eck Institute for Global Health for a Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Speaker Series event featuring professor William J. Riley, Ph.D. Register here. Drawing from his expertise in leading academic and industry partnerships, Riley will share his insights into improving pregnancy and postpartum experiences. Riley will also illustrate how partnerships can lead to a reduction in health disparities and improve health metrics. Schedule of Events:Date: Friday, October 4, 2024 Venue: McKenna Hall 205/206/207TIMETITLESPEAKER8:30 - 9:00 amArrival, BreakfastN/A9:00 - 9:05 amWelcome RemarksTim Weber9:05 - 9:10 amSpeaker IntroductionJoyce Adams9:10 - 9:55 amPresentation- Perinatal SafetyDr. William Riley9:55 - 10:05 amBREAK - Coffee/Tea 10:05 - 10:20 amEquity and Disparities DiscussionDr. William Riley10:20 - 10:25 amQ & A Panel IntroductionMarie Donahue10:25 - 10:55 amGuided Q & ADr. William Riley TBDTBDJoyce Adams10:55 - 11:00 amClosing RemarksNydia Morales SotoAbout the Invited Speaker:William J. Riley, PhD, is a professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, and founding director of the National Safety Net Advancement Center (SNAC) launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve population health and equity. He has led numerous studies to improve perinatal safety including a seven-year national project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). These novel studies provided breakthrough evidence to improve perinatal outcomes. The translational research created new understanding regarding breaches in safety mechanisms and developed interdisciplinary team training approaches to create high reliability in healthcare organizations. Riley currently leads six large academic/industry partnership projects. This includes a five-year $250 million state-wide program funded by the Arizona Medicaid Department to reduce disparities and improve health metrics, involving over 400 health systems/clinics and 2000 physicians. Before joining ASU, Riley served as associate dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining academics, Riley served for over two decades as president and CEO of several medical delivery organizations including a large safety net system, and as senior executive at a public trauma hospital and teaching center. In addition to research, he teaches graduate courses in population health, healthcare finance, and the science of improvement. Register here. About the MNCH Speaker Series: Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) is committed to addressing the critical healthcare needs of pregnant and postpartum women and their children. The EIGH fosters interdisciplinary collaborations and inspires advancements to improve maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) outcomes within communities in Indiana and around the world. The Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Speaker Series is hosted by the Eck Institute for Global Health to bring awareness to local and global health-related issues that impact vulnerable populations. Learn more by visiting the MNCH webpage. Originally published at globalhealth.nd.edu.

Join the Department of Music for the first Fall Fridays at Noon concert, which features short performances by talented Department of Music students.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.

As part of the Keough-Naughton Institute's fall 2024 speaker series, Ciaran Brady, emeritus professor of early modern history and historiography at Trinity College Dublin, will deliver a lecture based on his forthcoming book about Sir Thomas Cusack. Lecture Abstract Thomas Cusack was at the forefront of Irish politics from the 1530s to the early 1570s. Closely associated with every initiative of Tudor policy in Ireland from the Reformation, the conciliatory policy of surrender, and regrant to the introduction of provincial presidencies, he was the only Irish-born official in the years after 1534 to hold the office of chief governor. Yet he remains one of those elusive figures who appear, positively but fleetingly, in historical studies of sixteenth century Ireland. No monograph devoted to Cusack has ever been attempted, and he has not even been the recipient of a single scholarly article. In this lecture, Ciaran Brady seeks to redress this neglect, but more importantly to question the underlying interpretative assumptions from which it arose. Speaker Biography Ciaran Brady, MRIA, is emeritus professor of early modern history and historiography, and Fellow Emeritus, at Trinity College Dublin. The author of several books, including The chief governors: the rise and fall of reform government in Tudor Ireland (Cambridge, 1994) and James Anthony Froude : an intellectual biography of a Victorian prophet (Oxford, 2013), his latest book, Sir Thomas Cusack: a Tudor career in sixteenth century Ireland, is currently being prepared for publication. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

The Social Concerns Fair is open to students, faculty, and staff looking to engage more deeply with the city of South Bend. Meet representatives from community organizations addressing a range of issues, including education, housing, health care, disability, food security, immigration, and human rights. Booths will be set up throughout Geddes Hall. Find more info at socialconcerns.nd.edu/fair.

Candy Gunther Brown (Indiana University, Bloomington) will deliver the 2024–25 Cushwa Center Lecture. Brown received a Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2023 for a biography of Francis MacNutt, to be published in the Eerdmans Library of Religious Biography series. More recently, she secured a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers in support of the book. The Cushwa Center recently interviewed Brown about her research on MacNutt and the dramatic growth of charismatic Christianity over the past half century. This event is free and open to all. About the speaker Candy Gunther Brown is professor of religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington. A historian and ethnographer of religion and culture, her research and writing have dealt with evangelical print culture and U.S. evangelicalism; global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, science, medicine, and religion; and religious practices related to alternative healing, including yoga and mindfulness. Past projects have received support from, among other sources, the John Templeton Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.Image: Candy Gunther Brown, left; Francis MacNutt, right, at Notre Dame Stadium on June 14, 1974 (courtesy of Notre Dame Archives). Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.

Hayden Kirwan, a senior majoring in history and minoring in poverty studies, will facilitate a discussion about workers and the 2024 election — jobs, immigration, unions, taxes, tariffs, and more. Kirwan is a Just Wage Research Lab fellow at the Center for Social Concerns. The Labor Café at the Center for Social Concerns convenes the Notre Dame community for casual conversation on contemporary questions about work, workers, and workplaces. What rights and protections should those who work for others have? What’s the proper role for government in the economy? How should we address enduring problems of inequality, poverty, and lack of opportunity? And what does Catholic social tradition have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained. Visit socialconcerns.nd.edu/labor-cafe for more information.