Recorded April 11, 2012

Robert Lawrence, MD (Moderator)
Director, JHU Center for a Livable Future

Steve Hansch
US Liaison, DARA International
Adjunct Professor, George Washington University

Alexander Vu
Director of International Emergency and Public Health Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University

Sirad Shirdon
Save Somali Women and Children

Andrea Wirtz
Research Associate, Center for Public Health and Human Rights

Sadia Aden
Writer and Human Rights Advocate

The presentation was part of the annual "Faces of Africa Week", a weeklong public health focused program. ReACH (Raising awareness for the Crisis in the Horn) featured an expert panel and will be moderated by Robert S. Lawrence, MD, professor and director of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Sponsored by African Public Health Network (APHN)

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Recorded April 10, 2012

Winona LaDuke
Environmentalist

Anishinaabe environmentalist, farmer, activist, writer, and advocate for native communities Winona LaDuke addresses topics ranging from agricultural biodiversity, academic responsibility, the cool squash she's growing, and the redemptive, restorative properties of food, in all its forms, be they medicine, ancestors, or nourishment. Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health

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Recorded April 10, 2012

Pe Thet Khin, MD
Minister of Health, Myanmar

Burma's minister of health Pe Thet Khin has two overriding goals: to enable citizens to reach their life expectancy and to ensure that every citizen is free from disease. He spoke to an audience at the Bloomberg School on April 10, 2012 about his vision and most pressing challenges: a severe shortage of health care workers and qualified health educators, inadequate health care facilities and substandard maternal and child health care.

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Recorded April 5, 2012

Jean William Pape, MD
Founder and Director of GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A massive earthquake, political unrest and a cholera epidemic. These are the issues, among others, that Haiti has grappled with over the past two years. Public health leader Jean William Pape provides an update on efforts to manage cholera, HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases in the midst of massive economic, political and infrastructural challenges. Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health

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Recorded March 27, 2012

David M. Bishai, PhD, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

Sweden has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. But back around 1800 the average Swede only lived about 30 years. How did this drastic change in life expectancy happen? Dr. David Bishai explores that question in this talk, and discusses what can be learned from the hygiene revolution of the 19th century, in order to help other countries increase their life expectancies, only faster.

Dr. Bishai brings a broad background to his work in health economics. His expertise spans public health, medicine, economics, physics and philosophy. He's been called the "Swiss Army knife of public health," someone who does so many things and does them well. For more information on Dr. Bishai and his research: http://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/1296/Bishai/David

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Recorded March 9, 2012

Will Allen, BA
Founder and CEO, Growing Power Inc.

Urban farming pioneer and visionary Will Allen spoke at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in March 2012, sharing information and insight into how his "Growing Power" farms produce a high volume of food in urban communities, profitably, and to the communities' benefit."

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Recorded February 29, 2012

Robert Murray, MA, MBA
President, Global Health Payment LLC
Former Executive Director, Health Services Cost Review Commission

General Preventive Medicine Residency Program Grand Rounds
The 2012 Annual J. Douglas Colman Lecture

Robert Murray, MA, MBA, was the longest-serving executive director of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (the HSCRC), having held that position for the 17 years. During his tenure, the HSCRC was the nation's only all-payer hospital rate-setting system, which affected 47 general acute-care hospitals with revenues in excess of $14 billion annually. Under the all-payer rate structure, Maryland experienced the second-lowest absolute rate of growth in hospital costs of any state, moving from a position of 24 percent above the U.S. average hospital cost to more than 2 percent below in fiscal year 2008... View full bio (pdf)

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Recorded February 28, 2012

Lois Quam
Executive Director, U.S. Global Health Initiative, U.S. State Department

Ms. Lois Quam serves as the Executive Director of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) and is based at the U.S. Department of State, reporting to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Obama created GHI to help countries save lives today, and strengthen health systems to build stronger nations tomorrow. Ms. Quam's commitment to public service and management background will guide her as she works to oversee GHI's interagency efforts to advance President Obama's mission across the globe... View full bio (pdf)

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Recorded February 1, 2012

Shyam S. Biswal, PhD, MS
Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

This event is part of the 2011-2012 Dean's Lecture Series.

For more information about Dr. Biswal's work: View full bio (web link)

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Recorded January 24, 2012

Orin S. Levine, PhD
Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. Levine's research interests include the epidemiology, control and prevention of infectious diseases, especially respiratory infections in developing countries. He has worked for over 15 years on efforts to accelerate the development, evaluation and introduction of new vaccines against Haemophilus influenzae type B and Streptococcus pneumoniae into routine immunization programs in developing countries. Currently, he serves as Executive Director, PneumoADIP, a project sponsored by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to accelerate pneumococcal vaccine access for children in the world's poorest countries. He is also P.I. of the Gates Foundation funded PERCH (Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health) project that aims to prepare the evidence base for pneumonia prevention from 2015 onwards.

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