August 24, 2020

The upcoming fall quarter at the Dornsife School of Public Health will look different than in the past due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there will be no shortage of programming and ways to remain connected in these challenging times.

Lectures that are typically hosted on campus will be delivered in a new digital format and are open to all to tune in.

Starting the week of September 22, 2020, Dornsife will reintroduce the “Emerging Issues in the Coronavirus Pandemic” virtual series which explores important questions about science, our society, and racial inequities that need to be addressed. The series features public health practitioners with a range of expertise. As soon as dates are confirmed, they will be listed here.

In October, the first-ever virtual Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture with speaker Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB professor of the practice of health and human rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will take place on Wednesday the 14th.

With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity. Prior to joining the FXB Center, she served as New York Commissioner of Health from 2014 to 2018. Bassett’s many awards and honors include the prestigious Frank City’s A. Calderone Prize in Public Health, a Kenneth A. Forde Lifetime Achievement Award from Columbia University, and election to the National Academy of Medicine.

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Dornsife's annual Population Health Spotlight Series kicks off virtually in November. The 2020-21 theme is “Racism and Health: Evidence and Action.” Below you will see the lineup of speakers in the series:

• Wednesday, November 11, 2020: Sacoby Wilson, PhD, associate professor at the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland-College Park, has more than 15 years of experience as an environmental health scientist in the areas of exposure science, environmental justice, environmental health disparities, community-engaged research including crowd science and community-based participatory research, water quality analysis, air pollution studies, built environment, industrial animal production, climate change, community resiliency, and sustainability. He works primarily in partnership with community-based organizations to study and address environmental justice and health issues and translate research to action.
• Wednesday, December 2, 2020: Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, tenured associate professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity, is a reproductive health equity researcher. Hardeman applies the tools of population health science and health services research to elucidate a critical and complex determinant of health inequity—racism. She leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and reproductive justice to inform her equity-centered work which aims to build the empirical evidence of racism’s impact on health particularly for Black birthing people and their babies.
• Wednesday, January 20, 2021: Melody S. Goodman, PhD, MS, associate dean for research and associate professor in the School of Global Public Health at New York University, is a biostatistician and research methodologist with a large statistical toolbox. Her research interest is on identifying origins of health disparities and developing, as necessary, evidence-based primary prevention strategies to reduce these health disparities.

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