The Colloquium takes place virtually on Wednesdays from 3:00-5:00.
MODULE 1: WHAT DOES STRUCTURAL CHANGE TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND HEALTH EQUITY LOOK LIKE?
Class 1 | Sept. 2
COVID-19 in 2021: What Lies Ahead? (PUBLIC)
Moderator: Lawrence Gostin, O’Neill Institute
Speakers:
- Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh
- Ashish Jha, Harvard Global Health Institute and Brown University School of Public Health (as of Sept. 2020)
- Salim Abdool Karim, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Class 2 | Sept. 9
Illuminating Health and Social Inequities: Disparate impacts of COVID-19 on Black, Latinx, and Native Americans
Moderator: Jeffrey Crowley, O’Neill Institute
Speakers:
- Greg Millett, amfAR
- Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, George Washington University
- Sriram Shamasunder, UCSF
Class 3 | Sept. 16
Policing and Public Health in America
Moderator: Professor Preston Mitchum, Georgetown University Law Center; United for Reproductive and Gender Equity (URGE); Board of Directors for Collective Action for Safe Spaces
Speakers:
- Professor Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University Law Center; Modern War Institute of West Point
- Professor Kristin Henning, Georgetown University Law Center
- Commissioner Benjamin Tucker, New York City Police Department (NYPD)
- Attorney Sterling Johnson, Philadelphia Drug Users Union; Legal Science LLC; ACT UP Philadelphia
Class 4 | Sept. 23
Upstream social determinants of health and equity: employment, incarceration, immigration, and climate
Moderator: Daniel Dawes, Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse
Speakers:
- Leana Wen, George Washington University
- Lisa Bowleg, George Washington University
- Omar Martinez, Temple University
- Sara Pollock Hoverter, Georgetown Law Center
MODULE 2: THE ASSAULT ON SCIENCE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND PRIVACY: DO WE HAVE TO SACRIFICE BASIC FREEDOMS AND THE RULE OF LAW IN NATIONAL AND GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCIES?
Class 5 | Sept. 30
Trust and Privacy: Technology and tracing contacts
Moderator: Sean Bland, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Speakers:
- Damien Patrick Williams, Virginia Tech Doctoral Student
- Paul Ohm, GLC
- Glenn Cohen, Harvard University
Class 6 | Oct. 7
Inherent Dignity: Why the rush to criminalize and stigmatize?
Moderator: Kenyon Farrow, The Body
Speakers:
- Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International
- Safura Abdool Karim, U of Witwatersrand
- Andrea Ritchie, Interrupting Criminalization Project
Class 7 | Oct. 14
Health and compassion for the vulnerable: Immigrants, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers
Moderator: Phil Schrag, Georgetown Law Center (Unconfirmed)
Speakers:
- Alex Aleinikoff, Georgetown Law Center
- Joanna Naples-Mitchell, Physicians for Human Rights
- Michael Tan, ACLU
- Dr Ranieri Guerra, World Health Organization
Class 8 | Oct. 21
Undermining Science and public health agencies: How to give public health a fighting chance against economic forces, politics, and a growing rejection of science?
Moderator: Jesse Goodman, Georgetown University
Speakers:
- Jim Curran, Emory
- Howard Bauchner, JAMA
- Mike Osterholm, University of Minnesota
MODULE 3: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN AN AGE OF SOVEREIGNTY AND POPULISM
Class 9 | Oct. 28
The Future of the World Health Organization: WHO Caught in the Middle of Two Superpowers
Moderator: Matt Kavanaugh, O’Neill Institute
Speakers:
- Wafaa El-Sadr, Columbia University
- Ann Kurth, Yale University
- Michele Barry, Stanford University
Class 10 | Nov. 4
Healthcare and public health reform in America: Do we know where we are headed? (PUBLIC)
Moderator: Lawrence Gostin, O’Neill Institute
Speakers:
- Tim Westmoreland, Georgetown University Law Center
- Gregg Bloche, Georgetown University Law Center
- Matthew Rose, Health GAP
- Diane Rowland, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Class 11 | Nov. 11
The International Health Regulations: Are they working?
Moderator: Benjamin Mason Meier, UNC Chapel Hill
Speakers:
- Gian Luca Burci, Graduate Institute Geneva
- Allyn Taylor, Georgetown Law Center
- Roojin Habibi, Global Strategy Lab
Class 12 | Nov. 18
Health Justice in the U.S. and Globally
Moderator: Katie Gottschalk, O’Neill Institute
Speakers:
- James Hodge, Arizona State Law
- Jen Ruger, University of Pennsylvania
- Howard Koh, Harvard University
Class 13 | Dec. 2
The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine: Financing, Testing, and equitably distributing a lifesaving vaccine (PUBLIC)
Moderator: Alex Phelan, Georgetown University
Speakers:
- Seth Berkley, GAVI (Unconfirmed)
- Peggy Hamburg, former FDA Commissioner
- Gregg Gonsalves, Yale University