Spring 2023
Seminar Series
Experts from the School of Public Health and across Brown came together to discuss climate change as a public health emergency; how extreme weather events impact our health and wellbeing; and the influence of climate change on pandemics. Watch the insightful exchanges below.
Wednesday 19 April, 2023
Why climate change is the next public health emergency
Panel Discussion 5-6:00 PM • Networking Reception 6-7:00 PM
225 Dyer Street, Room 565
Join experts from the School of Public Health and across Brown to discuss why climate change is considered to be the next public health emergency. Climate change is impacting our health and health systems need to be able to respond to the challenges ahead, but health services are also contributing to climate change. The discussion will explore these issues and what the public health community can and is doing to respond to them.
The panel includes Ronald Aubert, Interim Dean, School of Public Health; Kim Cobb, Director, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society; Irene Papanicolas, Director of the Center for Comparative Health Systems, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice; Adam Levine, Director of the Watson Institute’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies.
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Monday, March 13, 2023
How extreme weather events impact our health and wellbeing
Panel Discussion 4-5:00 PM • Networking Reception 5-6:00 PM
121 South Main Street, Room 245
Join experts from the School of Public Health and the Population Studies and Training Center to discuss how extreme weather events, caused by climate change, are impacting our health and wellbeing. The discussion will reference Brown research looking at the impacts Hurricanes such as Katrina and Maria have had on local populations, including those with vulnerabilities.
The panel includes Ronald Aubert, Interim Dean, School of Public Health; Stefanie Friedhoff, Co-founder and Co-director of the Information Futures Lab and Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services (Chair); Elizabeth Fussell, Professor of Population Studies and Environment and Society (Research); and Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, and Kate Moretti, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine.
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Monday, February 6, 2023
Will climate change cause the next pandemic?
Panel Discussion 4-5:00 PM • Networking Reception 5-6:00 PM
121 South Main Street, Room 245
Join experts at the School of Public Health to discuss how climate change is influencing global patterns of infectious disease and why that is a risk for future pandemics. The discussion will highlight how Brown’s research on disease dynamics and climate change and the work of the Pandemic Center are helping to identify and mitigate these risks.
Opening remarks by Interim Dean Ronald Aubert and Deputy Dean Megan Ranney and a panel with Dr. Craig Spencer, Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Chair); Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology, and Rachel Baker, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Environment and Society
