Climate’s Impact on Megacity Health

Michele Barry, MD, FACP, FASTMH

Director, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Senior Associate Dean, Global Health
Stanford University

About the lecture

As the world urbanizes, megacities, or rapidly developing urban centers with populations of 10 million or more inhabitants, present a unique opportunity for understanding the future of planetary health. Urbanization brings both health benefits and threats to megacities, particularly as a result of increasing vulnerabilities due to climate change. Innovative interventions are being designed and implemented in megacities to cultivate a more resilient and healthy planet. Barry will delve into the health impacts of these rapidly expanding urban metropolis.

A reception with light refreshments will be held at 3:30pm. The lecture will begin at 4:00pm.

This event is free and open to the public. Please click here to register. Parking for the event is available in the Duke Medicine Circle Parking Garage, located at 302 Trent Drive. For a map showing the location of the parking garage, please click here. For more specific information regarding access and parking, please click here. 

About the speaker

Michele Barry is Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health. As one of the co-founders of the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar Award program, she has sent over 1500 physicians overseas to underserved areas to help strengthen health infrastructure in low resource settings. As a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), she led an educational initiative in tropical medicine and travelers health which culminated in diploma courses in tropical medicine both in the U.S. and overseas, as well as a U.S. certification exam. Barry is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and National Academy of Sciences since 2002. She has been selected for Best Doctors in America and currently sits on the NAM Board on Global Health. She is also the 2018 recipient of AMWA’s highest award—the Elizabeth Blackwell medal for creating pathways for women in medicine. 

About the series

This annual lecture is supported by the Victor J. Dzau Global Health Lecture Fund, established by Dr. Dzau in 2017 as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Matching Grant.
 
Dzau currently serves as president of the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine. He is chancellor emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dzau was the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and chair of medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. 
 
A trailblazer in translational research, health innovation and global health care strategy and delivery, Dzau is particularly interested in eliminating health disparities among underrepresented populations and the socioeconomically disadvantaged both at home and abroad. In 2001, together with Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, Dzau guided the creation of a new Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School to reduce disparities and improve health care through training, research, education and service. At Duke, Dzau was a guiding force in establishing the Duke Global Health Institute.