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  • Past

    In Conversation with Budi Gunadi Sadikin

    • Tuesday, September 24, 2024
    • Video
    This Public Health Conversation Starter features Budi Gunadi Sadikin, the Minister of Health of Indonesia, in conversation with Dean Sandro Galea. Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.
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    In Conversation with Jeanne Ayers

    • Wednesday, August 28, 2024
    • Video
    This Public Health Conversation Starter features Jeanne Ayers, Executive Director of Healthy Democracy Healthy People, in conversation with Dean Sandro Galea. Ms. Ayers shares about the work of Healthy Democracy Healthy People, a nonpartisan coalition of national public health organizations focused on advancing health equity by assuring participation in the electoral process is available to […]
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    In Conversation with Sandra M. Clark

    • Tuesday, August 13, 2024
    • Video
    This Public Health Conversation Starter features Sandra M. Clark, Executive Director of StoryCorps, in conversation with Yvette Cozier, BUSPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice.Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health. This Starter is part of SPH Reads, our school-wide reading program hosted by the […]
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    Health Equity Policy, Community, and the Mississippi Delta

    • Tuesday, December 3, 2024
    • 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
    • Video
    This conversation considered how we can better advance health equity in local communities and beyond. We will reflect on themes from the book Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda, by BUSPH Professor David K. Jones (1981–2021), who spent four years visiting the Mississippi Delta conducting primary research with […]
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    A Vote for Health: Preventing Violence

    • Wednesday, October 23, 2024
    • 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
    • Online
    • Video
    This event was part of our fall election series, which invites leading thinkers to reflect on key issues for health in the election.  For this program, we considered the intersection of the 2024 election and violence. We reflected on the various causes and consequences of violence as well as the actions we can take to […]
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    After the Election: What’s Next for Health?

    • Wednesday, November 20, 2024
    • 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
    • Online
    • Video
    This event was part of our fall election series, which invited leading thinkers to reflect on key issues for health in the election. For this program, we invited Deans of schools of public health from across all four regions of the United States to consider the intersection of the election and population health in their […]
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    A Vote for Health: Migration (Bicknell Lecture)

    • Wednesday, October 16, 2024
    • 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
    • Online
    • Video
     This program considered the intersection of the 2024 election and the health of migrants. It aimed to challenge us to think about the health consequences of U.S. immigration and border policy. Dr. William J. Bicknell endowed this annual lectureship to provide “a periodic but regular infusion of iconoclasts and original thinkers who will bring ideas…that […]
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    In Conversation with Roger Mitchell

    • Tuesday, April 30, 2024
    • 2:00 - 2:30 pm ET
    • Video
    This Public Health Conversation Starter features Roger Mitchell, Professor and Chair of Pathology at Howard University College of Medicine and immediate past Chief Medical Examiner for Washington, DC, in conversation with Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Mitchell speaks about his recent book, Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about […]
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    In Conversation with Laura Marris

    • Friday, April 26, 2024
    • 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET
    • Video
    This Public Health Conversation Starter features writer and translator Laura Marris (CAS'13) in conversation with Dean Sandro Galea. Professor Marris speaks about her recent book, States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic, co-authored with Alice Kaplan. Laura's first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, is forthcoming from Graywolf in August. Our Conversation Starters engage leading […]
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    In Conversation with Franklin Jones, Jr.

    • Wednesday, April 10, 2024
    • 2:00 - 2:30 pm ET
    • Video
    This Public Health Conversation Starter features Franklin Jones, Jr., lecturer in Deaf Studies at BU Wheelock, in conversation with Yvette Cozier, BUSPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health. This Starter is part of SPH Reads, our school-wide reading […]