The seminar series will provide all participants with an opportunity to study and engage with the fundamental topics in contemporary global health. It will explore critical issues affecting disease burden and health care delivery throughout the world.
The program consists of monthly, extracurricular seminars beginning in the Fall of 2023 through Spring 2024. The series is open to all medical students, residents and interprofessional health students.
Sessions will be held via Zoom with most sessions scheduled on the third Thursday of the month unless otherwise indicated (see the schedule below).
Zoom Link | Meeting ID: 847 751 41059
Date/Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
Description |
Thursday, September 21 |
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of
Medicine
|
Global vaccinations
|
Global Vaccinations and the Antipoverty Vaccines: The
Science vs. The Antiscience
|
Thursday, January 18
|
Phillip Levy, MD, MPH
Wayne State University School of
Medicine |
Chronic disease in black
communities
|
Improving the Health of Populations ...Globally
|
Thursday, February 15
|
Jay P. Graham, PhD, MBA, MPH
Associate Professor, University of
California, Berkeley, School of
Public Health
|
Environmental spread of
antimicrobial resistance in
low- and middle-income
countries
|
Environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance in
peri-urban communities of Quito, Ecuador
|
Thursday, March 21, 3:00pm |
Neil MacKinnon, PhD
Provost, Augusta University
|
Geographic Health Disparities and Global Health
|
Mapping health disparities in high-income nations
|
April 18th,
12:00pm |
Amir Sapkota, PhD
Professor and Chair Department
of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
University of Maryland School of
Public Health |
Impact of climate on
patients with chronic kidney
disease
|
TBD
|
May 16th,
3:00pm |
Jenna Forsyth, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine,
affiliated with the King Center for
Global Development, the Woods
Institute for the Environment and
the Doerr School of Sustainability |
Lead chromate adulteration
in turmeric across Bangladesh, food safety
policy enforcement
|
TBD
|
Download the Entire 2023-2024 Schedule Here.