Assembly Series: 'Why health? Reimagining what we think about when we think about health'

Name: Assembly Series: 'Why health? Reimagining what we think about when we think about health'
Start: 2025-01-29T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-01-29T17:30:00-06:00
Location: Graham Chapel

By Assembly Series, Here and Next, Public Health

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 4 PM to 5:30 PM

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We are at a pivot point for health. We are exiting the acute COVID-19 period with a dramatic loss in public trust. We also are heading into a new federal administration that promises to change many long-familiar structures that affect health. How then do we, in this moment, reimagine our approach to health? Dean Galea argues that we must start by celebrating our achievements in health, and move to rethink our foundational values, the costs we are willing to pay for health, the actions that generate our health, the potential and limits of science, and to surface — and face — uncomfortable ideas for health.

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Assembly Series, Here and Next, Public Health

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Sandro Galea is the dean and the Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He has been named an epidemiology innovator by Time, a top voice in health care by LinkedIn, and is one of the most cited social scientists in the world. His writing and work are featured regularly in national and global media. A native of Malta, he served as a field physician for Doctors Without Borders, and held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. In January, Galea will become the inaugural Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the School of Public Health and the Eugene S. and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health at WashU.

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