Initiated in 2008, Grand Rounds is a community conversation on the science, education, and practice of public health. The series provides 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.
Each year, we select a theme for Grand Rounds to view from multiple dimensions and disciplines. In commemoration of the grim 400th anniversary of the first Africans sold into bondage in North America, the 2019-2020 Grand Rounds series will examine how inequality has been sewn into the fabric of American society with particular impact on health across populations. We invite you to explore these themes with us over the next year.
Please check individual lectures to confirm the event space. All talks take place on the Columbia University Irving Medical Campus.
For questions or more information, please contact las2336 [at] cumc.columbia.edu (Lauren Sagnella). Be sure to visit our 400 Years site to learn more about additional upcoming events and reading discussions that are scheduled for the school year.
Framing Our Struggles for Justice: Faculty Roundtable
September 4, 2019
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Reception to follow in the VEC lobby
Robert Fullilove, EdD (moderator)
Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Associate Dean of Community and Minority Affairs
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
David Bell, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Population and Family Health
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH
Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Jasmine McDonald, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Frederica Perera, DrPH, PhD
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
An Ecology of Inequality
October 14, 2019
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Raygine DiAquoi, EdD (moderator)
Assistant Dean of Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Chandra Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS
Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Harriet Washington
Author of Medical Apartheid
50 Years Since Stonewall
November 20, 2019
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Ilan H. Meyer, PhD
Williams Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy
Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
Terry McGovern, JD
Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of Population and Family Health
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Patrick Wilson, PhD
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Go Back to Where You Came From: 400 Years of Xenophobia
January 29, 2020
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
VEC 401
Moderator:
Monette Zard
Allan Rosenfield Associate Professor of Forced Migration and Health
Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health
Speakers:
Rosita Romero
Executive Director, Dominican Women's Development Center (DWDC)
Avigail Ziv
Executive Director, International Rescue Committee's New York Office
Data Science for Justice
Feb. 19, 2020
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
VEC 401
Moderator:
Gary Miller, PhD
Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation
Speaker:
Kiros T. Berhane, PhD
Cynthia and Robert Citrone-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor
Chair of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Charon Gwynn, PhD
Deputy Commissioner for the Division of Epidemiology
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Yusuf Hamied Distinguished Lecture
Unequal From Birth: The Spatial and Social Referents of Health Inequality
THE MARCH EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Speaker:
Gita Sen, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Director, Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity and Social Determinants of Health
Public Health Foundation of India
27th Granville H. Sewell Distinguished Lecture
Water, Water Everywhere And Not A [Safe] Drop to Drink
April 22, 2020
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center
104 Haven Ave, Room 201
Reception to follow in the Lobby
Speaker:
Ellen Silbergeld, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
