November 16, 2001

HSPH Dean Barry Bloom will resume hosting the popular Future of Public Health Millennial Symposium Series with "Genes and the Environment: The Origins of Asthma" on Thursday, December 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Snyder Auditorium. Coming up in the series:

Thursday, December 6
"Genes and the Environment: The Origins of Asthma"

Duncan Thomas, professor of preventive medicine, University of Southern California

Fernando Martinez, director, Respiratory Sciences Center, University of Arizona

Carole Ober, University of Chicago, Department of Human Genetics

Thursday, February 7, 2002
"The War on Cancer–30 Years On"

John Bailar, III, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago

Edward Benz, Jr., president, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Richard Klausner, director, National Cancer Institute

Thursday, March 7, 2002
"Ethical Issues in Public Health Research in Vulnerable Populations"

Leslie London, senior specialist and associate professor, Occupational and Environmental Health Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Capetown

Ruth Macklin, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

K. Srinath Reddy, coordinator, Initiative for Cardiovascular Health in Developing Countries

Dan Wikler, ethicist, Choosing Interventions: Effectiveness, Quality, Costs, Gender, and Ethics (EQC), Global Progamme on Evidence for Health Policy (GPE), WHO

Exact titles are subject to change.