Isidore I. Benrubi Lecture

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Ending Black-White Health Disparities: The Case for Reparations

October 12, 2022 | 4:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street

Speaker: Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
Commissioner, New York State Department of Health

Hate Speech on Campus and the First Amendment: An American Dilemma

April 17, 2019 | 4:00 p.m.
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center 
104 Haven Avenue, Room 201

Speakers:

• Aryeh Neier 
  Human Rights Activist, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, and Former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
• Jeremy Waldron
  Prolific Scholar, University Professor at New York University School of Law, and previously University Professor in the School of Law at Columbia University 

Does Equality Have a Future in America?

October 4, 2017 | 4:00 p.m.
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center 
104 Haven Avenue, Room 201

Speaker: Paul Krugman, PhD
Nobel Prize Winner, Economist, Columnist for The New York Times

Keynote Lecture by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

October 27, 2016 | 4:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street

Speaker: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Senator from Rhode Island

From AIDS to Ebola: What Have We Learned?

April 8, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street

Speaker: Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health Council on Foreign Relations

Beyond Wages and Wealth: How Inequity Harms Our Political Institutions, Our Social Fabric, and Our Well-Being

February 26, 2014 | 4:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street

Speaker: Joseph Stiglitz, PhD, FBS
Nobel Laureate
University Professor at Columbia University

The Changing Picture of Childbirth in America

November 8, 2012 | 4:00 p.m.
Allan Rosenfield Building
722 West 168th St., Hess Commons

Speaker: Judith W. Leavitt, PhD
Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor Emerita
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Environment and Risk: Thinking With & Thinking About Etiology and Incidence

November 16, 2011 | 4:00 pm 
Allan Rosenfield Building
722 West 168th St., Hess Commons

Speaker: Charles E. Rosenberg, PhD
Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus
Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences
Harvard University

OSHA at Forty: Rethinking Worker Protection for the 21st Century

November 4, 2010 | 4:00 p.m.
Neurological Institute Auditorium
710 West 168th 

Speaker: David Michaels, PhD 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA