Events

2024

10th Annual Renée Royak-Schaler Lecture in Health Equity and Population Health

Topic: Transforming Public Health to Achieve Health Justice 

Presenter: Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH

Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D., M.P.H studies structural racism and discrimination in vaccine allocation and the equitable enforcement of housing laws and structural racism in the health care system. 

Health Disparities Journal Club

Summer 2023 Health Disparities Journal Club

June 22 - July 27, 2023

Thursdays at Noon via Zoom

9th Annual Renée Royak-Schaler Lecture in Health Equity and Population Health 

Topic: Equity effects of real-world natural experiments to improve population health 

Presenter: Alyce Adams, PhD

 Dr. Adams' interdisciplinary research seeks to evaluate the impact of changes in drug coverage policy on access to essential medications, understand the drivers of disparities in treatment adherence among insured populations, and test strategies for maximizing the benefits of treatment outcomes while minimizing harms through informed decision-making.

Health Disparities Journal Club

Summer 2022 Health Disparities Journal Club

June 23 – July 28, 2022

Thursdays at Noon via Zoom

8th Annual Renée Royak-Schaler Lecture in Health Equity and Population Health 

Topic: Population Risk Stratification to Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes

Presenter: Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP

Dr. Olopade’s research is focused on gaining a better understanding of the root causes and genomic basis of cancer in diverse populations. 

Topic: The Impact of Unresolved Historical Trauma on Indigenous Health Equity

Presenter: Donald Warne, MD, MPH

Donald Warne, MD, MPH is the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as well as the Director of the Indians Into Medicine (INMED) and Master of Public Health Programs, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota. He also serves as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board in Rapid City, SD. Dr. Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, SD and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men. He received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine and his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health.

2019

Topic: Social Capital and Disaster Resilience

Presenter: Ichiro Kawachi, MBChB, PhD

Ichiro Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (in epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1992.  Kawachi is the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000 (new and revised edition published in 2014).

2018

Topic: Removing Obstacles to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Behavioral Health Care

Presenter: Margarita Alegría, PhD

Margarita Alegría, Ph.D., is the Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 

Topic: When It Comes to Health, Does Zip Code Matter More than Genetic Code?

Presenter: Anthony B. Iton, MD, JD, MPH

A range of powerful evidence shows unequivocally that where you live, as well as your social circumstances, play a huge role in your health. This was the message delivered by Anthony B. Iton, MD, JD, MPH, Senior Vice President of Healthy Communities at the California Endowment, in a lecture April 18 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM).

Topic: The Concepts of Health Disparities and Health Equity: Can We Get a Little More Clarity?”

Presenter: Paula Braveman, MD, MPH

Dr. Braveman is Director, Center on Social Disparities and Health, and Professor, Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Topic: Neighborhoods and population health: Where have we been and where are we going?

Presenter: Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH

Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH is a physician and epidemiologist known worldwide for seminal research on health disparities and multilevel determinants of population health.   Her work has had a major impact on public health research and practice.  

Topic: Making America Healthier For All: How Social Policies Can Promote Health

Presenter: David R. Williams, PhD, MPH

Dr. Williams is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and a Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University.