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Public Health Grand Rounds: 2008-2009
Now in its third year, Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on innovative leadership strategies crucial for successfully addressing present and evolving public health challenges. The monthly series on "Public Health Leadership" features prominent public health practitioners, and is open to the Medical Center, the University, and all those within the public health and healthcare communities. Pfizer, Inc. is sponsoring the nine-part series. Archived webcasts, podcasts, transcripts, and other resources are available online from Kaisernetwork.org. A light lunch will be served at each session. CME credit is also available. For more information, call 202-994-5179.
Webcast Now Available:
Health Reform as a Matter of Social Justice
Cindy Mann, J.D., Executive Director, Center for Children and Families, Research Professor, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, 4/14/2009 The Path to a High Performance Health System: Lessons from Abroad
Karen Davis, PhD, President, The Commonwealth Fund, 4/9/2009
Previous Grand Rounds Lectures:
Webcasts, Podcasts and Transcripts Available
2008-2009 Public Health Grand Rounds Schedule
| Date, Time, Location |
Speaker Information |
Wednesday, September 24th
Ross Hall 101
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Solving the Health Shortage Crisis: Leadership for a Healthiest Nation |
Tuesday, October 21st
Ross Hall 101
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Robert J. Levine, M.D.
Senior Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Professor of Medicine and Lecturer in Pharmacology; Director, Law, Policy and Ethics Core, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University
Ethics of Research Involving Human Subjects:
Development of Policy in Response to the Public's Perceptions |
Tuesday, November 18th
GW Hospital Auditorium
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Karen Davis, PhD
President, The Commonwealth Fund
Health Policy and Women's Health: Current Status and Future Priorities |
Tuesday, December 9th
GW Hospital Auditorium
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Richard Troiano, PhD
CAPT, US Public Health Service
Coordinator, Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
The 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans: Development and Dissemination of New Federal Evidence-Informed Recommendations |
Tuesday, January 27th
GW Hospital Auditorium
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Barbara DeBuono, MD, MPH
Visiting Professor, Department of Health Services Management and Leadership and Global Health
Why is Public Health Leadership Critical Now? |
Tuesday, February 17th
GW Hospital Auditorium
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Professor Michel Kazatchkine
Executive Director, Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Global Health and the Gloabl Fund |
Tuesday, March 10th
GW Hospital Auditorium
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Lawrence O. Gostin
Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown
From a Civil Libertarian to a Sanitarian: A Journey of a Public Health Law Advocate |
Tuesday, April 9th
GW Hospital Auditorium
9 am - 10:30 am |
Karen Davis, PhD
President, The Commonwealth Fund
The Path to a High Performance Health System: Lessons from Abroad |
Tuesday, April 14th
GW Hospital Auditorium
Noon - 1:30 pm |
Cindy Mann, J.D.
Executive Director, Center for Children and Families
Research Professor, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
Health Reform as a Matter of Social Justice |
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