Past Events
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SYMPOSIUM
Teaching Public Health
Featuring presentations from public health leaders, educators, and the wider public health community
March 26, 2018 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SEMINAR
Public Private Collaboration: A Path to Sustainable, Affordable, Equitable, and Patient-Centric Healthcare
Arnaud Bernaert, World Economic Forum
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 | 
4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM
Value-Based Pricing: Panacea, Building Block, or Pipe Dream?
Daniel Ollendorf, Chief Scientific Officer, Institute of Clinical and Economic Review
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | 1–2:30 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SEMINAR: SHINE LECTURE
Is Patient Privacy Dead?
Mark Rothstein, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Monday, March 19, 2018 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SEMINAR
Disagreeing on Difficult Issues: Sexual Harassment
Kenneth Elmore, Associate Provost and Dean of Students, Boston University and Caryl Rivers, Professor, Journalism, Boston University College of Communication
March 14, 2018 | 1–2:15 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SEMINAR
#ENOUGH: Community Forum on Gun Violence
A conversation for the SPH community
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM
Applying Lessons Learned from the Master Settlement Agreement with Big Tobacco to Other Industries
Cheryl Healton, Dean, College of Global Public Health, New York University
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Keefer Auditorium
DEAN’S SEMINAR: BICKNELL LECTURE
Can We Talk? Bridging Political Divides for the Health of the Public
Joshua Archambault, Pioneer Institute; Brandi Harless (SPH’08), Mayor of Paducah, Kentucky; and Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM
Opioids and the Masses: Early Lessons from the Epidemic
Sally Satel, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, and Consulting Psychiatrist, Partners in Drug Abuse Rehabilitation and Counseling Clinic
Thursday, January 25, 2018 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SEMINAR
The Opioid Crisis in America: A Conversation with the U.S. Surgeon General
Jerome M. Adams, Surgeon General of the United States; Monica Bharel (MED’94, CAS’94), Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM
Precision Public Health: Balancing Scientific Investment and Prevention
Donna Arnett, Dean, University of Kentucky College of Public Health
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SYMPOSIUM
Understanding Commercial Sex Policy: A Global and US Perspective
Featuring Barbara G. Brents, Professor, Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Saniye Gülser Corat, Director, Division for Gender Equality, Office of the Director-General, UNESCO; Malika Saada Saar, Senior Counsel on Civil and Human Rights, Google; and more.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM
Using Epidemiology to Study Policy as Well as to Inform It
Daniel M. Fox, President Emeritus of the Milbank Memorial Fund
Thursday, September 28, 2017 | 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SEMINAR: GLOBAL HEALTH STORYTELLING
Gun Violence: Stories Behind the Numbers
Co-sponsored by Pulitzer Center, College of Communications, and The Activist Lab.
Wednesday, September 27 | 4:30 to 6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM
Slow Learners: Cross-Border Lessons in Healthcare Reform
C. David Naylor, Professor of Medicine and President Emeritus, University of Toronto
Wednesday, September 13 | 4:30–6 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SEMINAR
Spirituality and Public Health: How Religious Disciplines Impact Human Health
Christina Gebel (SPH’14); Katelyn Long, Boston University School of Public Health; Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom; and Michael Stein, Boston University School of Public Health.
Tuesday, September 12 | 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
DEAN’S SYMPOSIUM
Community Health Sciences: Defining the Field
Featuring Robert M. Kaplan, Former Chief Science Officer, US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality; Research Director, Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford School of Medicine; Nina Wallerstein, Director, Center for Participatory Research, and Professor of Public Health, College of Population Health, University of New Mexico; and more.
Thursday, September 7 | 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | 670 Albany StreetDEAN’S SEMINAR
1985: Voices from the AIDS Crisis
Featuring Gary Bailey (SSW’80), Simmons School of Social Work and Alfred DeMaria, Jr. (CAS’70), Massachusetts Department of Public Health