All lectures are Mondays from 4 p.m. to 5:00 or 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Co-sponsored by the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health, the Decoding Disparities Lecture Series examines health inequity and outlines steps toward a more equitable and just health care system. Established in 1987 to honor the memory of Paul Levinger, this series is supported by the Paul Levinger Professorship Pro Tem in the Economics of Health Care. The lecture series is open to all members of the community!
Monday, December 14, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Expressions of Grief and Trauma on the Digital Streets of Chicago
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work; Associate Dean of Curriculum Innovation and Academic Affairs
Columbia University School of Social Work
Monday, December 7, 4 - 5:00 p.m.
Disparities in Health Outcomes: Who pays the cost?
Monica L. Baskin, PhD
Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vice Chair for Culture and Diversity, Department of Medicine
Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement,
O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
Monday, November 30, 4 - 5:00 p.m.
Understanding and Effectively Addressing Inequities in Health
The Paul Levinger Professorship Pro Tem in the Economics of Health Care
David R. Williams, MPH, PhD
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health
Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Monday, November 16, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Childhood Adversity, Race, and Biological Mechanisms of Risk for Health Care Disparities
Audrey Tyrka, MD, PhD
Co-Director, STAR Initiative: Stress, Trauma, and Resilience
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School
Directory, Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Neuroscience at Butler Hospital
Monday, November 9, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Effects of Urbanization on Health Disparities
Sponsored by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Albert Ko, MD
Chair, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Yale School of Medicine
Monday, November 2, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Health Disparities and Respiratory Disease
Juan Celedon, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Monday, October 26, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Child Health Disparities
Phyllis Dennery, MD
Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Pediatrics
Executive Committee, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute
Patrick Vivier, MD, PhD
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Executive Committee, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute
Kaitlyn Camacho Orona, MPH
Policy Analyst
Rhode Island Kids Count
Monday, October 19, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Disparities in Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Otis Brawley, MD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Monday, October 5, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
The Climate Gap: How Climate Change Increases Health Disparities
Sponsored by the CardioPulmonary Vascular Biology COBRE
John Balmes, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
