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…

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…

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…

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…

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;…