Grand Rounds and Special Events, 2002

December 4, 2002  4:00 p.m.  Room W1020
“DNA METHYLATION AND GENOME DEFENSE”
Speaker:  Judith Bender, PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

November 20, 2002   4:00 p.m.  Room W1020
The 2002 Dr. Leroy E. Burney Lecture
“REHABILITATION MEDICINE:  THE DARLING OF REFORMERS AND ACTIVITIES; THE STEP-CHILD OF MAINSTREAM MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE POLICY MAKERS”
Speaker:  Wayne M. Lerner, DPH, FACHE, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

November 6, 2002  4:00  - 6:00 p.m. Room W1020
In collaboration with Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Center for Public Health Preparedness
"WAR, TERRORISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH"
Speaker:  Victor W. Sidel, MD, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Past President, American Public Health Association
Founding Member and Past President, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Foundation Member and Past Co-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

October 16, 2002    4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  Room W1020
"THE JOHNS HOPKINS URBAN HEALTH INSTITUTE:  MISSION AND ACTIVITIES"
Speaker:  Claude Earl Fox, MD, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

March 11, 2002
"Public Health and Medicine: What is the Gap and How Can We Bridge It?"
Speakers: Mohammad N. Akhter, MD, MPH; Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Roger J. Bulger, MD; President, Association of Academic Health Centers

February 20, 2002
"Behavior Change Interventions: Too Touch to Tackle?"
Speaker: Andrea Gielen, Professor of Health Policy and Management

February 15, 2002
"Feast and Famine: Nutritional Conundrums"
Speakers: Nevin Scrimshaw, MD, PhD, MPH
Senior Advisor, Food and Nutrition Program, United Nations

Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Keith West, DrPH
Professor, Center for Human Nutrition (CHN), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Benjamin Caballero, MD, PhD
Professor and Director, Center for Human Nutrition (CHN), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Vernon Young, PhD, DSc
Professor, Nutrition Biochemistry, MIT School of Science

Eileen Kennedy, PhD
President, Global Nutrition Institute 

January 30, 2002
"Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure: Opportunities and Challenges"
The Annual J. Douglas Colman Lecture
Keynote Speaker: David Satcher, MD, PhD, Surgeon General of the United States

January 23, 2002
"Disability and Rehabilitation: A Public Health Perspective"
The 2002 Dr. Leroy E. Burney Lecture
Speaker: Ellen MacKenzie, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

January 16, 2002
"War Against Malaria Transmission: Molecular and Immunological Attack"
Speaker: Nirbhay Kumar, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology