FACE FORWARD Speaker Series

Durring the academic 2021-2022 year, as part of multidimensional initiatives to advance our mission of becoming an anti-oppressive, inclusive institution, the Mailman School launched a comprehensive curriculum analysis to address issues of power, race, oppression, and privilege in our content. Central to this process is our work to identify biases, omissions, inaccuracies, and other aspects of our educational program that sustain racism in our field.

As part of this initiative, the School held the FACE Forward Speaker Series, featuring panel discussions with renowned public health experts. Through this series, a variety of guests - from local policymakers to community organizers to international public health innovators – shared insights on anti-racist practice and engaged in a dialogue with faculty, staff, and students.

FACE Forward adds a critical component to our integrated MPH Core curriculum, providing opportunities for students to analyze the ways that structural bias and racism undermine health, and to consider how we can repair these inequities in our work as a public health professionals.

Each FACE Forward discussion was moderated by Robert Fullilove, EdD, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs.

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON Racism IN Public Health

October 18, 2021 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm (EST)

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Panel

Salim Abdool Karim, PhD, MBBCH
Caprisa Professor for Global Health in Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Mary Bassett, MD, MPH
Appointed Commissioner, New York State Department of Health
FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Stella Yi, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Population Health
NYU School of Medicine

history of white supremacy and violence

November 9, 2021 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm (EST)

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Panel

Torian Easterling, MD, MPH
First Deputy Commissioner and Chief Equity Officer
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS
Professor of Community Health Sciences
Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Nadia S. Islam, PhD, MPHIL, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Associate Director, NYU Langone's Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Intersectionality in Racism and Public Health

March 1, 2022 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm (EST)

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Panel

Dustin T. Duncan, ScD
Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

C. Virginia Fields, MSW
President and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on Health Inc.

Nesha Z. Haniff, PhD
Founder of the Pedagogy of Action (POA) and the Gender Consciousness Project (GCP)
Lecturer in the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan

Elinor Tatum
Publisher and Editor in Chief of the New York Amsterdam News

How to be an AntiRacist Public Health Practitioner