Grand Rounds Series

The 2023-2024 Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health speaker series will center around the theme, A Healthy and Just World: What would it take? This idea builds upon the framework of public health as a foundational public good for society and takes it to the next level of what investments, structures, communications and more are needed to realize public health’s true potential to foster a healthy and just world. The series will engage our community on topics of health equity, public health communications, climate change, healthy aging, mental health, global health and community health.
 
Grand Rounds was initiated in 2008 at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health to create an intellectual space within which to explore national and global public health challenges and the innovative approaches needed to transform the public’s health in the 21st century. 

We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodation to attend this event, please contact disability@columbia.edu no later than 10 days prior to event date. We will work with our colleagues at Disability Services to fulfill requests made after this date, but cannot guarantee they will be met.

For questions, please message public_health_events@cumc.columbia.edu.

2023-2024 Events 

What Would It Take To Create a Sustainable Food System and End Food Insecurity?

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.

Allan Rosenfeld Building, 722 W 168th Street, 8th Fl Auditorium

• Cecilia Sorensen, MD (moderator)
  Director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia Irving Medical Center and Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
• Ertharin Cousin 
  Founder and CEO Food Systems for the Future
• Jessica Fanzo, PhD, Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School and Interim Director, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)

Lunch will be available on a first come, first served basis.

More events to be announced. 

Previous Events

​A Healthy and Just World: What Would It Take?

​Wednesday, August 30, 2023​

Featuring Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Faculty: 

• Michael A. Joseph, PhD, MPH (moderator) 
  Vice Dean for Education,
  Associate Professor of Epidemiology 
• Heather Butts, JD, MPH
  Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management 
• Christian Gloria, PhD
  Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences 
• S. Patrick Kachur, MD, MPH
  Interim Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health,
  Professor of Population and Family Health

​What Would It Take To Effectively Communicate About Public Health?

Thursday, September 28, 2023​

Featuring:

• Jelani Cobb, PhD
  Dean, Columbia Journalism School (moderator)  
• Salim Abdool Karim, MB, ChB 
  CAPRISA Professor of Global Health (in Epidemiology),
  Columbia Mailman School of Public Health 
• Perri Peltz, DrPH
  Emmy Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist​

What Would It Take To Increase Public Health in Indigenous Communities?

Tuesday, October 10, 2023  ​

Featuring:

• A. Kayum Ahmed, PhD 
  Assistant Professor of Population and Health Family 
  Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
• Hadrien Coumans
  Co-director, Co-founder & Emissary,Lenape Center
• Rae O'Leary, MPH
  Public Health Analyst,
  Missouri Breaks Industries Research 
• Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, PhD (moderator)
  Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, 
  Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

What Would It Take To Achieve Equity in Health Professions and Create Health Equity?

Tuesday, October 31, 2023  ​

Featuring:

• Yvonne Ortiz, MEd
  Associate Dean Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (moderator),
  Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
• Ivory Clarke MSc
  Director of the Culture of Health Program and Equity and Inclusion Officer
  National Academy of Medicine
   

What Would It Take To Transform Our Health Systems and Create Health Equity?

Thursday, November 16, 2023 ​

Featuring:

• Michael McGinnis, MD, MA, MPP

  A Healthy and Just World: What would it take to transform our health systems?
  Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer, Senior Scholar, and Executive Director of the
  National Academy of Medicine Leadership Consortium for a Learning Health System
• Michael Sparer, JD, PhD
  Chair and Professor, Health Policy and Management,
  Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
• Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, (moderator)
  Dean, Mailman School of Public Health and DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice Professor of Epidemiology and of Medicine; Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center