Michael M. Davis Seminar on "Health and Vulnerable Populations"

 

We are excited this academic year to have the following distinguished presenters to kick-off the new Davis Seminar series on Health and Vulnerable Populations. When available, Adobe PDF versions of the seminars can be located by following the links on the seminar titles.

Except as noted, the Davis Seminars are held 12:00-1:30PM, dates noted below, in Room W-IV, SSA, 969 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL.

 

October 29 - Ronald Bayer, Ph.D.

Professor at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Title: "Is Stigma the Enemy of Public Health?"
[Paper]

November 5 - Claire Decoteau, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: "Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Politics and Practices of Healing in Post-Apartheid South Africa"

November 18 - Bernice A. Pescosolido , Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Sociology
Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research
Indiana University
Title: “The Stigma of Mental Illness: Data and Directions from a Decade of Research and Theory ”
[Bio][Presentation]

December 3 - Connie Weisner , Ph.D., M.S.W.

Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of California at San Francisco
Topic: "Policy issues related to addressing chronic pain, in particular opioid prescribing, and prescription drug abuse"

March 18 - Mark A.R. Kleiman , Ph.D.

Professor of Public Policy
Director, Drug Policy Analysis Program
Harvard University
Title: TBD

April 1 - Julia Henly , Ph.D. & Susan Lambert, Ph.D.

Associate Professors
School of Social Service Administration
University of Chicago
Title: TBD

April 15 - Rima Rudd , Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer on Society, Human Development, and Health
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: TBD

April 29 - Carol Heimer, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
Northwestern University
Title: TBD

May 27 - James M. Perrin , MD

Director, MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy
Director, Division of General Pediatrics
Vice Chair for Research
Mass General Hospital for Children
Title: TBD

 

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