Archives of Public Seminars

The 2009-2010 Seminar Series:

  • November 5, 2009
    Marian E. Jacobs, Dean of the Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  • November 3, 2009
    Phoebe Kornfeld, General Counsel of Intercell AG

  • October 12, 2009
    Fiona Terry, PhD, Practitioner-in-Residence, Kenan Institute for Ethics

  • October 8, 2009
    Susan Newcomer, Ph.D., National Institute of Health

  • September 28, 2009
    Ron Mitsuyasu, Professor of Medicine and the Director of the UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education

  • September 16, 2009
    Lynn Morris, Chief Specialist Scientist and Head of the AIDS Unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Johannesburg

  • September 10, 2009
    Stephen MacMahon, DSc, PhD, FACC, Principal Director, The George Institute for International Health Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Sydney

The 2008-2009 Seminar Series:

  • April 28, 2009
    Dr. Abhay Bang    , Director of the Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH) Topic: Research with the People: The Story of Public Health Research in Gadchiroli, India

  • April 23, 2009
    Peter Piot    , Former Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations Topic: The Transformational Nature of the AIDS Response
    Video

  • April 1, 2009
    Andrew Boulle    , School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town Topic: Responding to HIV in South Africa through the Lens of a Provincial Health Service
    Video

  • March 4, 2009
    Lawrence Gostin    , O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Topic: Meeting the Survival Needs of the World’s Least Healthy People: A Proposed Model for Global Health Governance

  • February 19, 2009
    Dalton Conley    , Chair, Department of Sociology, New York University Topic: Malaria and the Demographic Transition in Africa
    Video

  • February 4 , 2009
    Robert Black    , Chair, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health Topic: Effective Interventions to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality and Undernutrition
    Video

  • January 14, 2009
    Daniel Schmitt    , Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University Topic: Evolution, Obesity, and Arthritis: Understanding Human Health from an Evolutionary Perspective
    Video

  • December 3, 2008
    Tom Quinn, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University Topic: Infectious Diseases: Continuous Threats to Global Health
    Video

  • November 19, 2008
    Prabhat Jha, Director, Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto Topic: Smoking Mortality in India
     Video

  • November 3, 2008
    Ellen Piwoz    , Senior Program Officer, Integrated Health Solutions Development, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Topic: Undernutrition: A Neglected Global Health Priority
    Video

  • October 29, 2008
    Addressing Dengue
    Katia Koelle, Assistant Professor of Biology, Duke University Topic: Understanding the Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Dengue
    Alun Lloyd, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University Topic: Novel Genetic Strategies for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases
    Video

  • October 2, 2008
    Stephen Lewis     AIDS-Free World (6:30 pm, Sanford Institute) Topic: Burden of HIV on Girls & Women in Africa
     Video

  • September 3, 2008
    Mark Ottenweller Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator, HOPE Worldwide Topic: Global HIV/AIDS
    Video

 

The 2007-2008 Seminar Series

  • April 1, 2008
    Maria Ines da Silva Barbosa, Program Coordinator for UNIFEM Health Disparities in Brazil

  • March 20, 2008
    Kim Thompson, Harvard School of Public Health Polio - Is the Cost of Eradication Worth It?

  • March 6, 2008
    Bob Einterz, Indiana University Update on the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Kenya: the Power of Academic Medical Partnerships

  • February 14, 2008
    John Bartlett, Duke University
    An Update on the Kilimanjaro HIV/AIDS Program: Lessons Learned and New Opportunities Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Co-Director of the Center for AIDS Research, Moshi, Tanzania
    View Powerpoint     of Bartlett's lecture
    Read Duke Research Blog     about Bartlett's lecture
    View Video of Presentation

  • January 10, 2008
    Mark Rosenberg, Task Force for Child Survival and Development,
    Carter Center Traffic Deaths in Developing Countries: The Perfect Plague
    View video     of Rosenberg's lecture

  • December 4, 2007
    Barbara Pullen-Smith, NC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
    Global is Local: Health Disparities in North Carolina
    View video     of Pullen-Smith's lecture

  • November 1, 2007
    Majid Ezzati, Harvard School of Public Health
    Evidence-based Technology Management for Environmental Health Risks: Lessons from Energy and Air Pollution Research in Developing Countries
    View powerpoint     from Ezzati's lecture