2023 - 2024
The 2023-2024 Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health speaker series centered 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.
For questions, please message public_health_events@cumc.columbia.edu.
2023-2024 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
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
What Would It Take To Create a Sustainable Food System and End Food Insecurity?
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Featuring:
- Ertharin Cousin
Founder and CEO Food Systems for the Future
Former US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome, and
Former Executive Director, World Food Programme - 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) - Lewis Ziska, PhD (moderator)
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health