Learning from Catastrophe: The Public Health Consequences of Katrina for New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Date and Time: October 3, 2008, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
View Webcast: On demand video now available
Location: Kresge, G-2
Speakers: William (Scott) Griffies, MD, Director, LSU
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director, LSU Psychiatric
Emergency Service, New Orleans; Roberta Avila, Executive Director, Mississippi
Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force; Jed Horne, former city editor,
The Times-Picayune and author of Breach of Faith; Jacques Morial, MPA,
Co-Director, Louisiana Justice Institute; Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, HSPH
Professor of Social Epidemiology; Robert Blendon, ScD, HSPH Professor
of Health Policy and Political Analysis.
Other Sponsors: HSPH Office of Diversity; HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership; and Cambridge Health Alliance Department of Psychiatry
Contact Person: Megan Lloyd (617-496-0721), mlloyd@hsph.harvard.edu
Description: Free, open to the public.