Dodge LectureThe Edward and Nancy Dodge Lectureship 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005| 2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 The Dodge Lecture was established in 1999 to honor Dr. Edward Dodge, MPH '67, and his late wife Nancy for their generous support of the Center for a Livable Future. The annual lecture features a distinguished visiting scholar to address the public health implications of ecosystem change resulting from personal and policy choices. 
 The Problem of Hunger and the Right to Food
September 27, 2011
Olivier De Schutter
UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food De Schutter recently spoke at the Bloomberg School, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. The talk was the Center’s 11th Annual Dodge Lecture, titled “Food Systems, Famines and Human Rights.” In his presentation, he reframed hunger by redefining the hungry and by identifying the roots of hunger, which are more often than not political, (as opposed to technical). Echoing economist and Nobelist Amartya Sen, De Schutter insisted that hunger—and famine—is not a crisis of productivity but a crisis of power. “We’ve produced hunger over the years by depriving peasants of their ability to produce,” he said. “Our needs will not be met by increasing production.” (Summary & video)
 Food Politics: Has the Food Revolution Arrived?
May 4, 2010
Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH
Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department
of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
Professor of Sociology
New York University Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and professor of sociology at New York University. She chaired the Department from 1988 to 2003. Her degrees include a doctorate in molecular biology and a master’s of public health in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. (Summary, audio file & video)
 Agriculture, Environment and Health
March 3, 2009
Vandana Shiva, PhD
Director of Navdanya, a program of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology of New Delhi, India
World renowned author, researcher and ecological activist Vandana Shiva, of New Delhi, India, visited the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss her work to promote sustainability, diversity, and fair trade in the food system. Shiva founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology (RFSTE) to support environmental activism in India. Shiva also directs Navdanya, which started as a project of RFSTE, aimed at promoting sustainability and biodiversity via community seed banks and supporting small food producers. Shiva is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award, the Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment Program and the Earth Day International Award of the United Nations.(Summary, audio file & video)
 Protecting the Commons
November 29, 2007
Robert Costanza, PhD
Gordon Gund Professor of Ecological Economics
Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
The University of Vermont
Money can't buy happiness. At least that's what's indicated by surveys showing that, since the 1970s, our life satisfaction levels have merely held steady, despite an ever-increasing rise in gross domestic product (GDP). A better measure of human well-being, argues ecologist Robert Costanza, PhD, is the genuine progress indicator, or GPI.(Summary, audio file & slide show of lecture)
The Farm/Food/Health Connection
April 25, 2006
Fred L. Kirschenmann, PhD
Distinguished Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Center,
Iowa State University
Professor of Religion and Philosophy
North Dakota rancher
Our mechanized world view has led to the evolution of food and farming systems based on the principles of specialization, simplification and concentration. This industrial paradigm has now left us with a series of health problems that are all inter-connected---the health of our soil, our farms, our environment, our diets, and our own health. Fred Kirschenmann --- farmer, philosopher, and long-time leader in sustainable agriculture --- will make a modest attempt at re-connecting the dots and making a case for a new world view based on Aldo Leopold's concept of an ecological conscience. (Summary, speaker biography, & audio file of lecture)
 Seas the Day: Ocean Science, Politics and Ethics
April 22, 2005 Jane Lubchenco, PhD
Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology
Oregon State University
Former President of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science Scientists play an important role in formulating environmental policy. While scientific information does not and should not dictate choices that are made, it is important that the scientific community be active in sharing information. All scientists need to engage in a new social contract with the society that supports them they have an obligation to lead the dialogue on scientific priorities and to communicate their findings to the public.
A False Hypothesis: Implications for Agriculture and Society if it's True
April 1, 2003
Wes Jackson, PhD
President and Founder, The Land Institute
Salina, Kansas
"The hypothesis is this: Beginning with agriculture 10,000 years ago, humans have produced no technological product or process without drawing down the earth's capital stock. By stock, I mean that which is necessary for plants to capture carbon using contemporary sunlight. This utterly dismal hypothesis is not being offered to suggest that we stop all science and technology, but to encourage our thinking about an ecological rather than technological baseline for sustainability." Wes Jackson.
 Why Urban Agriculture is the Next Frontier of
Public Health
April 3, 2002
Wayne Roberts, PhD
Project Coordinator, Toronto Food Policy Council Urban agriculture the use of rooftops, roadside fringes, and common spaces for largely direct-to-sale food production is expanding as a means to subsidize rural agriculture, an enterprise threatened by decreasing land quantity and quality. Dr. Roberts discussed how the promotion of urban agriculture helps public health departments develop new tools, new working styles and new partnerships for the 21st century.
 Ecology of Emerging Disease: Environmental Pollution
and Population Growth
April 4, 2001 David Pimentel, PhD
Professor, Insect Ecology and Agricultural Science
Department of Entomology
Cornell University College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
President, The Rachel Carson Council, Inc. Modern agricultural methods, from pesticide and antibiotic use to fossil fuel consumption, are contributing to land degradation and pollution as well as to the emergence and re-emergence of human pathogens. The goal is to develop biologically and ecologically sound techniques to insure sound management of soil, water, energy, and biological resources so vital to a sustainable food system for the growing human population.
 An Agronomist's View of Public Health
March 27, 2000
Dennis R. Keeney, PhD
Emeritus Director, Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Iowa State University
Midwest grain-based agriculture produces not food but feed for animals (fat), fructose (sweeteners) and fuel (ethanol). It is thus not a healthy, sustainable agriculture. Rather than feeding the hungry, this production of grains causes environmental degradation, pollution of waterways and estuaries, abandoned farms and rural out-migration. Over time this hopefully will change to an agriculture based on food, not feed.
Biodiversity and the Health of Ecosystems:
A Public Health Challenge
April 7, 1999 Terry Yates, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Biology
University of New Mexico Albuquerque
The Paleolithic record suggests that background species loss has been one to three species per year over millions of years. Today more than 1000 species are disappearing annually, a rate of biodiversity loss not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This profound interruption of ecosystems throughout the world poses public health risks ranging from threats to security of food supply, emerging pathogens and loss of plants and animals potentially beneficial to mankind.
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