Public Health Forum -next Wednesday, March 18th

in Outside Announcements
March 9th, 2015

Location: BUSM Evans Building Keefer Auditorium
Wednesday, March 18
1-2 p.m.
BUSM Evans Building, Keefer Audditorium

“What Matters Most in Public Health. Reflections on Priority Setting at the Intersection of the Social and Natural Sciences”
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH (view profile)
Dean and Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Over the past several decades, population health science has increasingly been concerned with the estimation of precise causal effects of exposures on an outcome at the expense of engagement with the broader causal architecture that produces population health. In order to conduct public health scholarship of consequence, a systematic effort is needed to engage our science in a critical reflection both about how well and under what conditions or assumptions we can assess causal effects, and on what will truly matter most for changing population health. Such an approach changes the priorities and values of the discipline, and requires reorientation of how we structure the questions we ask and the methods we use, as well as how we teach public health to our emerging scholars.