Come join as four Princeton alumni discuss their domestic health policy-focused career paths and offer advice to current students.  Katie Comando, MPA ’23 is a Health Policy Analyst for the White House Domestic Policy Council. Natalie Kotkin, MPA ’20 is a Senior…

This talk will examine how current discourse, clinical interventions, medical technologies, and policy responses to the opioid epidemic are racialized in the U.S., highlighting the role of whiteness and racial capitalism. We will trace how technologies of whiteness operated to respond to rising overdose deaths among whites beginning in the…

In this talk, Dr. Munyikwa, an anthropologist and practicing clinician, will present cases that help understand how social differences and their structural consequences permeate the clinical space in ways which exceed our existing language to describe them. She will then explore frameworks for conceptualizing the ethical practice of…

Through the lens of power, policy, and practice, the talk will examine public health’s charge to protect health, advance well-being, and treat the systems that determine population-level outcomes. We will examine the determinants of health and forces that lead to health inequalities.

Dr. Chris T. Pernell is a dynamic…

Princeton Health Policy Forum, a student group at Princeton, is hosting a talk with Dr. Monica Bertagnolli ’81, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, on Wednesday, April 24th at 5:30 PM in McCosh Hall, room 28.  Dr. Bertagnolli will join the event virtually.

Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D., is the 17th Director of the…

During this session, Dr. Moayed will invite participants to analyze the abortion care landscape in Texas by understanding both the past and present of ”how we got here”; evaluate the consequences of abortion restrictions on medical education and pregnancy care in Texas;…

Health care systems in Latin America have been subject  to substantial reforms for many years. Over the past two decades, scholars and policy experts have debated between two models of health care reform: one that proposes the creation of a market for health insurance and the competition among private and public institutions, and an…

Almost 110,000 Americans died from drug overdose last year, more than car accidents or gun deaths. Join us for a pivotal talk by Scott Walters, PhD, on the roots and impact of the national overdose crisis. Dr. Walters will trace the history of the crisis through changes in prescribing practices, the evolution of the heroin supply,…

The infant mortality rate, or the probability that a child will not live to their first birthday, and maternal mortality rate are widely accepted indicators of population health and wellbeing.  A greater proportion of people die from pregnancy and childbirth-related causes in the United States than any other high-income country in…

First-Years and Sophomores:

Interested in health in the U.S. and around the world?

Thinking about a career in health policy, research or medicine?

Come learn about the global health minor and opportunities for internships
and…