148th Cutter Lecture

Spring 2008 Cutter Lecture  to be structured around remembrances for Dr. Brian MacMahon

Held on Tuesday, April 29, 2008

 This lecture was recorded and can viewed HERE. 

 

147th Cutter Lecture

Our Multiple Defense Systems Against Cancer: Are There Cancer Resistant Genotypes?  

George Klein, MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center

Karolinska Institutet

Stockholm, Sweden

Held on Monday, December 17, 2007

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Spring 2007

An FDA for the 21st Century:
Are Safety and Speed Compatible? 

Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD
President of the Institute of Medicine

The 146th Cutter Lecture
held on Monday, April 30, 2007
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Winter 2006

From Molecules to Markets:
The Mandate of Public Health is Now Much Broader

K. Srinath Reddy
President, Public Health Foundation of India
Professor of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

The 145th Cutter Lecture
held on Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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Spring 2006

HTLV-1 The First Human Cancer-Causing Retrovirus
What We Know and Why Don't We Know More

Nancy Mueller, ScD
Professor of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health

The 144th Cutter Lecture
held on Thursday, May 4, 2006

Video available at HSPH Streaming Media .

Fall 2005

Breast Cancer Prevention Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Leslie Bernstein, PhD
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine

The 143rd Cutter Lecture
held on Thursday, December 1, 2005

Spring 2005

Halving Premature Deaths

Sir Richard Peto, FRS
University of Oxford, UK

The 142nd Cutter Lecture
held on Thursday, May 12, 2005

Fall 2004

Causation: Through the Eye of Hepatitis B Virus

R. Palmer Beasley, MD
Ashbel Smith Professor
The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center

The 141st Cutter Lecture
held on Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Spring 2004

A New Approach to the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Nicholas Wald, MD
Director, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine
Barts & The London, Queen Mary School of Medicine & Dentistry
University of London

The 140th Cutter Lecture
held on Wednesday, May 5, 2004
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Fall 2003

Saving 8 Million People a Year: Scaling Up Public Health in the Poorest Countries

Jeffrey Sachs, director, Earth Institute, Columbia University

The 139th Cutter Lecture
held on December 11, 2003
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

History of the Cutter Lecture

Since 1912, the Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine has been one of the most respected institutionalized lectures in the fields of preventive medicine and epidemiology. The Cutter lectures are administered by the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health under the terms of the bequest from John Clarence Cutter, M.D. a graduate of the Harvard Medical School. In his will Dr. Cutter specified that the lectures should concern preventive medicine, should be delivered in Boston and should be free to the medical profession and the press.

The first of the series was delivered in March of 1912 by Dr. William H. Park of the NYC Department of Health. His topic, "Observations on dosage and methods in injecting antitoxin in the treatment and prevention of diphtheria and tetanus", addressed one aspect of a subject that then dominated thought in public health--namely, communicable diseases and their Epidemiology. Since then the Cutter lectures have focused on a wide range of specialized fields in public health, including biostatistics, nutrition and especially epidemiology. The changing character of public health interests is reflected in the history of the Cutter lectures, but all have remained dedicated to enhancing the physical and social welfare of the world's population.

The series has drawn over 130 lecturers from around the world, tracing through all the epidemiologic fields in the 91 years it has been given.
The Cutter Lectures (1912-2003)

1912 William H. Park, John F. Anderson
1913 George C. Whipple, Mark W. Richardson
1914 Charles V. Chapin, Cressy L. Wilbur
1915 Joseph Goldberger, Victor C. Vaughan
1916 George W. McCoy, Simon Flexner
1917 Martin H. Fischer, Ludwig Hektoen
1918 Elmer V. McCollum
1919 Harry E. Mock, Alice Hamilton, T.M Legge
1920 Theobald Smith, Jules Bordet
1921 Alonzo Taylor, Clemens von Pirquet
1922 Charles Wardell Stiles, Alfred F. Hess
1923 Bella Schick, Sir Arnold Theiler
1924 Thorvald Madsen
1925 Watson S. Rankin
1926 George E. Vincent, Sir Arthur Newsholme, F. Neufeld
1928 Wade Hampton Frost, C. Levaditi
1929 Charles E. A. Winslow, Edwin O. Jordan
1930 Lafayette B. Mendel, William Mansfield Clark, M. Weinberg
1931 Karl F. Meyer
1932 Leslie T. Webster, Charles Armstrong
1933 Louise I. Dublin, Eugene L. Opie
1934 Karl Landsteiner, Anthony J. Lanza, Charles Sidney Burwell
1935 Milton J. Rosenau
1937 Thorvald Madsen
1938 Andrija Stampar
1939 Frederick F. Russell
1940 Ludwig Hektoen, James B. Murphy
1941 Hendrik Dam, Ernest W. Goodpasture
1942 Sir Wilson Jameson
1943 Lowell T. Coggeshall, Alfredo Sordelli
1944 Anatol A. Smorodintzev
1945 Sir Alexander Fleming, Donald Hunter
1946 Sir Lionel Whitby
1947 Thomas M. Rivers, Haven Emerson
1948 William N. Pickles
1949 James C. Spence
1950 Douglas H. K. Lee
1951 Hugh M. Sinclair, Dugald Baird
1953 A. Bradford Hill, Sir Gordan Covell
1954 Thomas Parran
1955 James V. Neel
1957 Charles M. Fletcher
1958 Sir Macfarlance Burnet
1959 Harold F. Dorn
1960 Benjamin Pasamanick, Thomas McKeown
1961 Archibald L. Cochrane
1962 Alexander D. Langmuir
1963 Paul M. Densen
1964 Robert E. Shank
1965 Einar Pederson
1966 Jerome Lejeune
1967 Sir Richard Doll
1969 Donald D. Reid
1970 Kung-pei Chen
1971 C. Ronald Lowe
1972 E. S. Anderson, Sir Richard Doll
1974 H. R. Neveanlinna
1975 E. George Knox
1976 Patricia Jacobs
1977 Sir Peter Medawar
1979 Gilbert Beebe
1982 Dimitrios Trichopoulos
1986 Peter Smith
1991 Hans-Olov Adami
1993 Olli Sakari Miettinen
1994 Lorenzo Tomatis
1996 Philip Cole
1997 David Schottenfeld, Lee N. Robins
1998 Timothy D. Noakes
2000 George Davey Smith, Eric S. Lander
2001 Alexander Walker, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr.
2002 John Samet, Jeffrey Koplan
2003 Malcolm Pike, Jeffrey Sachs