The Kreuter Katz Lecture on Health Equity is an annual series created in 2013 to spread knowledge about health disparities in American society — and foster solutions. The series is named in honor of public health champions Marshall Kreuter and Martha Katz and sponsored by the Healthcare Georgia Foundation.
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Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, is University Professor of Medical Humanities at The George Washington University. She is the first woman and African American to hold this prestigious, endowed faculty position. She is also Professor of Health Policy in the Milken Institute School of Public Health and Professor of American Studies in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gamble is Adjunct Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Throughout her career she has worked to promote equity and justice in medicine and public health. A physician, scholar, and activist, Dr. Gamble is an internationally recognized expert on the history of American medicine, racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, public health ethics, and bioethics. She is the author of several widely acclaimed publications on the history of race and racism in American medicine and bioethics. Public service has been a hallmark of her career. She has served on many boards and chaired the committee that took the lead role in the successful campaign to obtain an apology in 1997 from President Clinton for the United States Public Health Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. A proud native of West Philadelphia, Dr. Gamble received her BA from Hampshire College and her MD and PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Date:
November 21, 2019
Time:
1:30 p.m. – Registration
2 p.m. – Lecture
3 p.m. – Reception
Location & Address:
Georgia State University
Centennial Hall Auditorium
100 Auburn Avenue NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Open to the public. Registration required for entry.
Registration Deadline:
November 11, 2019
Contact:
phrsvp@gsu.edu
2019 Lecture Registration
Previous Lectures
The 2018 Kreuter Katz Lecture on Health Equity featured Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa, professor of Health Management & Policy in the Georgia State University School of Public Health and leader of the interdisciplinary team known as the Global Research Against Non-communicable Disease (GRAND) Initiative. His lecture focused on crossroads and the journey for health equity.
The 2017 Kreuter Katz Lecture on Health Equity featured Dr. Matthew Kreuter, founder of the Health Communication Research Laboratory. His lecture focused on communication-based strategies to eliminate health disparities with an emphasis on finding ways to increase the reach and effectiveness of health information for low-income and minority populations.
The 2016 Kreuter Katz Lecture on Health Equity featured Dr. Helene Gayle, former CEO of CARE and current head of the McKinsey Social Initiative.
The 2015 Kreuter Katz Lecture on Health Equity featured Dr. James Marks, Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The 2014 Kreuter Katz Lecture on Health Equity featured Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
