Jonathan Mann Health & Human Rights Memorial Lecture

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

The Dornsife School of Public Health’s Jonathan Mann Health & Human Rights Memorial Lecture speaks to the importance of health and human rights and honors the legacy of our School's founder, Dr. Mann.

This year's speaker is Gregg Gonsalves, PhD, a professor in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health and a professor (adjunct) at Yale Law School.

At Yale, Dr. Gonsalves also co-directs the Global Health Justice Partnership, an initiative of Yale's Schools of Public Health and School of Law, working at the intersections of health and human rights and social justice.

For close to 35 years, he has been an AIDS activist, working first with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in Boston and New York, then co-founding the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC). He has also worked with Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa in Cape Town. Dr. Gonsalves was named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.

Contact Information

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