Please join Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean, for this new Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health lecture series that aims to inspire innovative approaches to transform the public's health–nationally and globally–setting our sights on leadership needs for the 21st century.
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Alumni Auditorium, 650 W. 168th Street, New York City |
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All lectures are from 4:00–5:30 p.m. |
MULTIMEDIA RECAPS:
- Spring 2009
- Fall 2008
- Viewing Instructions
| April 22, 2009 |
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Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point
James Hansen, PhD [bio]
Director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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| April 1, 2009 |
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Evidence-Based-Policy: The Misleading Metaphor
Kenneth Prewitt, PhD [bio]
Vice-President for Global Centers and Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University
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| March 26, 2009 |
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Race, Place and Health: Tackling the Fundamental Causes of Disparities
David Williams, PhD [bio]
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health
Harvard University School of Public Health
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| March 19, 2009 |
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The Transformational Nature of the AIDS Response: Opportunities for Public Health
Peter Piot, MD, PhD [bio]
Professor of Global Health, Imperial College, London and Senior Fellow, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Founding Executive Director of UNAIDS
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| March 4, 2009 |
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Scaling Up: Health Services in Low Income Countries
Jeffrey D. Sachs, PhD [bio]
Director of The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, School of International & Public Affairs
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health
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| February 18, 2009 |
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The Mailman School's Vision and Strategy For The Future of Public Health
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH [bio]
Dean and DeLamar Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
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| February 11, 2009 |
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Unequal America: Income Inequality and Population Health
Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD [bio]
Chair, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health
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| February 4, 2009 |
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Self Regulation and Physical and Mental Health Disparities: A Life-Course Framework
James Jackson, PhD [bio]
Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health
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| January 28, 2009 |
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The Global Obesity Epidemic: Implications for the Shape of Public Health to Come
Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH [bio]
Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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| January 21, 2009 |
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Meeting the Survival Needs of the World’s Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention
on Global Health
Lawrence Gostin, JD [bio]
Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law and Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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| December 8, 2008 |
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Distrust, Race and Research: Toward a Community Engagement Model to Eliminate Health Disparities
Stephen B. Thomas, PhD [bio]
Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health and Social Justice, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
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| December 3, 2008 |
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Towards a Life Course Approach to Health
and Prevention
Frederica P. Perera, DrPH '82 [bio]
Bruce Link, PhD, MS '82 [bio]
Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH '92 [bio]
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH [bio]
Faculty, Mailman School of Public Health
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| November 12, 2008 |
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Urban as a Determinant of Health
David Vlahov, PhD, RN [bio]
Senior Vice President for Research and Director, Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine
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| October 16, 2008 |
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From Knowledge to Action: Crossing the Divide in Public Health Training and Research
Thomas Frieden, MD/MPH ’85 [bio]
Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene
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| October 2, 2008 |
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Coming of Age:
Where does an aging world fit in public health?
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH [bio]
Dean, Mailman School of Public Health
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| September 24, 2008 |
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Why is Prevention a Hard Sell? Meeting a Crucial Challenge to Improve the Public’s Health
Harvey Fineberg, MD [bio]
President, Institute of Medicine
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| September 8, 2008 |
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Academia as Change Agent: Our role in insuring the public’s health
Jo Ivey Boufford, MD [bio]
President, New York Academy of Medicine
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September 3, 2008 |
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Back to the Future: What history reveals about the future of public health
Framing Remarks: Dean Linda P. Fried [bio]
David Rosner, PhD, MPH; [bio]
Amy Fairchild, PhD ’97, MPH ’90; [bio]
James Colgrove, PhD ’04, MPH ’01 [bio]
Faculty, Mailman School of Public Health
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This series will run throughout the 2008-2009 academic year. For questions,
please contact publichealth@columbia.edu or call 212-305-4797.
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