WVU School of Public Health to debut monthly Public Health Dialogues speaker series
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Office of Public Health Practice and Workforce Development at the West Virginia University School of Public Health is launching Public Health Dialogues, a new speaker series, in the fall.
Public Health Dialogues will present four events on the first Friday in each month beginning September 5.
The series will offer cutting-edge and compelling public health topics.
All sessions for the fall will take place in WVU Health Sciences Center Room 1905 beginning at 12:15 p.m. (unless otherwise noted). The presentations are free and open to the public.
The fall lineup of speakers is as follows:
September 5 (noon to 2 p.m.)
Black Lung and Chemical Spills: 100 Years of Poor Health in West Virginia
- Chris Hamby, investigative reporter at BuzzFeed and 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Investigative Reporting
- Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health and professor of family medicine and population health
- Ted Boettner, co-founding executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
October 3
The State of Health in West Virginia
- Letitia E. Tierney, M.D., J.D., commissioner and state health officer of the Bureau for Public Health at the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
November 7
The Social Determinants of Health: It’s Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes
- Paula Braveman, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of family and community medicine and director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California, San Francisco
December 5
A Comprehensive, Community-based Opiod Overdose Program
- Fred Brason, executive director of Project Lazarus in North Carolina
To register for any of the Public Health Dialogues, please e-mail sph-dialogues@hsc.wvu.edu.