Apr
27
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds – Going Viral with Zika @ Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Berg Hall, 2nd Floor
Apr 27 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds - Going Viral with Zika @ Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Berg Hall, 2nd Floor | Stanford | California | United States

Presenter: Michele Barry, FACP
Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford University

Michele Barry, MD, FACP is the Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health. As a co-Founder and co-Director of the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar Award,she has sent over 1000 physicians overseas to underserved areas to help strengthen health infrastructure in low resource settings. She also is current co-PI of two NIH initiatives: Global Health Equity Scholars Program and the NIH-MEPI to twin University of Zimbabwe Health Sciences with Stanford.

As a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, she led an educational initiative in tropical medicine and travelers health which culminated in diploma courses in tropical medicine both in the U.S. and overseas, as well as a U.S. certification exam. Dr. Barry is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Science. She also sits on the the Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities involved in Global Health (CUGH) and the Foundation for Advancement in International Education (FAIMER).
Areas of scholarly interest include ethical issues involving research overseas, clinical tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, problems of underserved populations and globalization’’s impact upon health in the developing world.’

 

Feb
14
Tue
Center for Population Health Sciences | Seminar Series | Speaker: Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH @ Li Ka Shing Center, Berg Hall
Feb 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences | Seminar Series | Speaker: Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH @ Li Ka Shing Center, Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

“Directions in Population Health Science:  From Risks to Consequences”
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean
Boston University School of Public Health

Please register here for Sandro Galea’s talk on February 14, 2017.

A fundamental charge of epidemiology is to improve population health through the identification of and intervention on those ‘risks’ for disease that generate the greatest harm. Yet population health science as a discipline today faces substantial challenges to its relevance, suggesting that we need to take a hard look at how our discipline approaches inquiry. The dominant guiding paradigm informing the quantitative population health science approach has been the risk factor approach, and the experiment as the gold standard for estimating causal effects of individual exposures.