SANDRO GALEA, MD, MPH, Drph

SANDRO GALEA, MD, MPH, Drph

SANDRO GALEA, MD, MPH, DrPH HEALTH NOT HEALTHCARE: WHAT WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HEALTH JANUARY 24, 2019 4:00 P.M. 208 LIGHT HALL SPONSORED BY: DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS VANDERBILT PRIZE IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE LECTURE ANGELIKA AMON PH.D. Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research Professor of Biology, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT January 31, 2019 208 Light Hall / 4:00 P.M. 01-24-19 DLS Galea - BK-CH .indd 1 1/11/19 12:35 PM SANDRO GALEA, MD, MPH, DrPH HEALTH NOT HEALTHCARE: WHAT WE SHOULD DEAN AND ROBERT A. KNOX PROFESSOR, TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HEALTH SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BOSTON UNIVERSITY The United States spends far more on health per capita than Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and any other country. But our health outcomes are worse than any Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. other high income country and getting worse. We have now had He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia a decline in national life expectancy every year for the past 3 University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of years—the worst downturn since the 1918 flu pandemic. Why Medicine. He has published more than 750 scientific journal articles, 50 is this? Ultimately, this is because we are not investing in health; chapters, and 13 books, and his research has been featured extensively in we are investing in healthcare. This presentation will discuss what current periodicals and newspapers. His latest book, “Well: What we need really causes health and how we could reverse a national tragedy. talk about when we talk about health,” will be published by Oxford University Press in 2018; Arianna Huffington has called it “a deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine.” Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto and graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. Galea was named one of Time magazine’s epidemiology innovators and has been listed as one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” He is past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Epidemiological Society. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards, including the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association and the Robert S. Laufer Memorial Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is a regular contributor to, and his work is regularly featured, in a range of public media, including a standing column in Fortune magazine. 01-24-19 DLS Galea - BK-CH .indd 2 1/11/19 12:35 PM.

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