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Faculty of Health Sciences

Mary Heersink Program in Global Health

Learning Symposium Speaker Series

Exploring transdisciplinary perspectives on current and emerging aspects of global health. The Speaker Series leading-edge topics from worldwide academic experts include: Rethinking vaccine hesitancy, No profiteering in a pandemic, Neighborhood effects on health, Climate Change and Health, and Epidemic Illusions; on the coloniality of Global Public Health.

Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy

  • Dr. Maya Goldenberg, Associate Professor, Philosophy at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada with a cross-appointment to the Bachelor of Arts and Science Program.

No Profiteering in a Pandemic

  • Dr Leena Menghaney, South-Asia Head for MSF’s Access Campaign

Neighborhood effects on health: urban concentration of poverty, wealth, and disease risk in Chile

  • Jossiana Ester Robinovich Benadof, Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Frontera, in Temuco, Chile

Climate Change and Health

  • Dr. K. Ayaz Rabbani, Assistant Professor and head of the Department of Environmental Science and Management under the School of Environment and Life Sciences at Independent University, Bangladesh

Epidemic Illusions; on the coloniality of Global Public Health

  • Dr. Eugene T. Richardson, physician-anthropologist and an Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Learning Symposium Speaker Series poster