Past Events

Global Health Colloquium: "Social Prognosis: How Inequality Shapes Recovery From Mental Illness"
Apr 18, 2025, 12:00 pm


This presentation compares public safety net and elite private psychiatric treatment in Los Angeles to show how inequality shapes the very meaning of recovery from serious mental illness. It focuses on "social prognosis", or the way clinicians imagine and enact futures for their clients. In Downtown LA, the crises of homelessness and…

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 16
Speaker
Free & open to the public
How Data-driven Insights Can Inform National Organ Allocation Policy
Apr 10, 2025, 12:30 pm

While around 90,000 patients are currently waiting for a deceased donor kidney transplant, almost 30% of recovered deceased donor kidneys go unused due to inefficiencies in the current allocation system. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is currently searching for a structured and equitable way to improve organ utilization. We…

Location
Robertson Hall, Room 015
Speaker
Global Health Colloquium - "Adaptive Sport as a Tool for Resilience Among Persons with Disabilities: Domestic and International Perspectives"
Apr 3, 2025, 4:30 pm

Delving into domestic and international contexts, this panel will explore how adaptive sports function not only as a means of physical 
rehabilitation, but also as a transformative tool for empowerment, community cohesion, and advocacy.

Speakers: 

Jess Markt:
Disability Sport and…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room A17
Speakers
Free & open to the public
Global Health Colloquium - "JUSTICE AND PUBLIC HEALTH: Addressing opioids and Housing in Baltimore"
Mar 28, 2025, 12:00 pm


This talk will focus on efforts to combat the opioid crisis and neighborhood redlining in Baltimore, Maryland. Ebony M. Thompson has had a groundbreaking career as Baltimore's first woman and openly gay City Solicitor. Through her efforts in and out of the courts, she has helped secure millions of dollars in restitution from the…

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 16
Speaker
Free & open to the public
Health Policy Careers Panel: Perspectives and Advice from Four Princeton Alumni
Nov 19, 2024, 4:30 pm
Health Policy Careers Panel: Perspectives and Advice from Four Princeton Alumni

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…

Speakers
Free & open to the public
Global Health Colloquium - "Whiteout: The Changing Color of Opioids in the U.S."
Nov 15, 2024, 12:00 pm


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…

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 16
Speaker
Free & open to the public
Global Health Colloquium - "Human Rights and Medicine: Perspectives from the Field"
Oct 4, 2024, 12:00 pm

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…

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
Speaker
Free & open to the public
Global Health Colloquium "The Prescription for Sick Systems: Building a Roadmap for Health Equity and Racial Justice"
Sep 27, 2024, 12:00 pm


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…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399
Speaker
Free & open to the public
Princeton Health Policy Forum Speaker Series Talk with the Director of the National Institutes of Health
Apr 24, 2024, 5:30 pm

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…

Location
McCosh 28
Speaker
Global Health Colloquium "Healthcare Through a Human Rights Crisis"
Apr 19, 2024, 12:00 pm


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;…

Speaker
Free & open to the public