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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.

Location:   Alumni Auditorium, 650 W. 168th Street, New York City
Time:   All lectures are from 4:00–5:30 p.m.

MULTIMEDIA RECAPS:

  • Spring 2009
  • Fall 2008
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April 22, 2009   Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point

James Hansen, PhD
[bio]
Director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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April 1, 2009   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   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

Due to technical difficulties, this lecture does not have a multimedia recap.
     
March 19, 2009   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   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   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   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   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   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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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.