It’s time for bed: The neglected connection between sleep and health
Friday, April 5, 2019 11am to 12pm
About this Event
View map Free EventAs part of National Public Health Week, F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD, MPH, MHS, dean of Oregon State's College of Public Health and Human Sciences, will present "It’s time for bed: The neglected connection between sleep and health.”
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About F. Javier Nieto
F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD, MPH, MHS, a leading epidemiologist and population health expert, brings more than 30 years of expertise and passion for public health to the CPHHS, which became Oregon’s first nationally accredited college of public health in 2014.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Valencia in Spain, a Masters in Public Health from the Institute for Health Development in Havana, Cuba, and a masters and a doctorate (PhD) in epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Before moving to the United States, he was director of the Division of Primary Health Care in the Province of Segovia in Spain, where he coordinated the region’s primary health care centers.
Between 1991 to 2001, Nieto worked as an epidemiology faculty at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, including serving as director of its General Epidemiology Program. Prior to joining OSU, he served as chair and professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he was the inaugural Helfaer Professor of Public Health.
Javier’s research spans a number of fields, including cardiovascular disease epidemiology, socio-economic determinants of health, and the epidemiology and health consequences of sleep disorders. He has been principal investigator and collaborator on numerous major research grants, both federally and privately funded, and has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, books, and book chapters.
Javier has served as a consultant for numerous organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, National Academy of Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Heart Association, American College of Epidemiology, Sleep Research Society, National Sleep Foundation, Pan American Health Organization, the Spanish Government, among other national and international organizations.
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