Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series
Since the beginning of his tenure at the School of Public Health, Dean Barry R. Bloom has believed that it is important to provide school wide forums on the critical issues facing public health. These forums began in 2001 with the Future of Public Health Symposium Series, which was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Over the years, this series has brought experts from the U.S. and other nations to HSPH to share their views on the major challenges and opportunities in their fields and disciplines.
Spring 2008
"Combatting the Obesity Epidemic: Recognizing and Reconciling Research Priorities"
Dean Bloom introduction and Shiriki Kumanyika lecture
Shiriki K. Kumanyika, PhD, MPH
Associate Dean for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology 
and Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
4:00-5:30pm
Monday, February 11, 2008
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge Building, Room G2
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Co-hosted by the Department of Nutrition
"Behavior and the Value of Medical Technology: Why Technology Assessment needs the Social Sciences"
Dean Bloom Introduction and Milton Weinstein Tribute to Herbert Sherman
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Dean Bloom Introduction and David Meltzer Lecture
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Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture
David Meltzer, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Economics,
and The Harris School for Public Policy Studies
Director, Center for Health and the Social Studies
The University of Chicago
4:00-5:30pm
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge Building, Room G2
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Co-hosted by the Department of Health Policy and Management
"A Case Study in Sustainable Development: A Holistic Approach to the Control of Malaria"
Featuring: Onesmo K. ole-MoiYio, MD, Director of Research and Partnerships, Senior Visiting Scientist, International Centre for Insect Ecology and Physiology
Date Held: May 8, 2007
Co-hosted by the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Related Article: Malaria Expert Describes Vision for Eradication Plan -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, June 22, 2007
"Bridging the Divide: Global Lessons from Evidence-Based Health Policy in Mexico"
Featuring: Julio
Frenk, MD, PhD, Former Minister of Health, Mexico and Founding Director
General of the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico
Date Held: December 7, 2006
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Related article: Former Minister Frenk Describes Health Care Reform in Mexico within Framework of Human Rights -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, January 19, 2007
Related Article available online with a subscription to the Lancet.
"Race and Science: New Challenges to an Old Problem"
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Featuring: Evelynn M. Hammonds, PhD, Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity,Harvard University
Date Held: October 24, 2006
Related Article: Hammonds Addresses "Race and Science: New Challenges to an Old Problem -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, December 8, 2006
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"Improving Health Care Quality: National Policy and Local Practice"
Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture 
Featuring: William L. Roper, MD, MPH, Dean of the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, CEO of UNC Health Care
Date Held: May 8, 2006
Related Article: Much Work Needed in Measuring Quality of Care -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, May 26, 2006
"How the Genome and the Computer are Changing Biological Science"
Featuring: David
Botstein, PhD, Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics Director,
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Date Held: January 12, 2006
Botstein Lab Home Page: http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/botstein/
Related Article: Princeton's David Botsein Describes New Biology for New Age of Computers -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, February 3, 2006
Co-Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences
"Demographic Forecasting: Incorporating Qualitative Insight into Quantitative Modeling"
Featuring: Gary
King, PhD, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social
Science, Harvard University
Date held: September 29, 2005
Related article: New Methods for Demographic Forecasting -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, October 14, 2005
Related book manuscript: Demographic Forecasting
"The Future of Scientific Computing at Harvard"
Featuring: Alyssa Goodman, PhD Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution
Date held: May 16, 2005
Related article: Harvard-wide Initiative in Innovative Computing to Provide Collaboration Opportunities Issues -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, June 8, 2005
"Ancient Perspectives on Future Climate"
Featuring: Daniel Schrag, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Date held: December 6, 2004
Related article: Climate Change Expected to Affect Traditional Public Health Issues -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, January 7, 2005
"Human Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease"
Featuring: David Altshuler, Associate Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital, and Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Date held: October 13, 2004
Related article: Altshuler Describes Emerging Methods for Researching How Genes and Environment Combine to Cause Disease -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, October 29, 2004
"The Future of the Health Care System"
Featuring: Samuel O. Thier, Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Date held: April 1, 2004
Related article: Health Care System in State of Disequilibrium, Costs Increasing, says Former Partners CEO -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, April 30, 2004
"Regulation of Aging in Yeast and Animals by SIR2"
Featuring: Leonard Guarente, Novartis Professor of Biology at MIT
Date held: January 29, 2004
Related article: Guarente Describes Investigation into Longevity Gene at Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series -- from Harvard Public Health NOW, February 20, 2004