About
The purpose of the seminar series is to develop the fellows' leadership skills by exposing them to the key leaders from both private and public sectors. The series focuses on public health practice and public policy, with a specific focus on minority health policy. The seminar series is offered as a course within the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences entitled “Leadership in Minority Health Policy” (SBS 296) in the fall. The participants include the fellows, students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and other Harvard graduate schools.
The sessions explore the public policy issues impacting the health status of minority and disadvantaged populations, with special emphasis on problem identification, policy formation, and development of leadership skills in the area of public health practice and policy. The Fellows and other attendees engage with both faculty members at Harvard and key minority health policy leaders from the public and private sectors. A major focus is to provide the participants with a variety of leadership styles, and career development strategies.
Current and Recent Seminars
Fall 2021
September 7, 2021
Christina Rosenthal, DDS, MA
Owner and CEO, Paradigm Dental Center, LLC; Founder and President, The 516 Foundation; Memphis, TN
September 14, 2021
Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA
President and CEO, CareQuest Institute for Oral Health
September 21, 2021
James Corbett, M.Div., JD
Principal
Initium Health
September 28, 2021
Kameron Matthews, MD, JD
Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer
Veterans Health Administration
October 5, 2021
LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH
Director
Washington, DC Department of Health
October 12, 2021
Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM
Associate Professor of Health Policy and of Law
Director, Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program
Co-Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
The George Washington University
October 19, 2021
Juan Fernando Lopera
Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
Beth Israel Lahey Health
November 2, 2021
Manny Lopes, MBA
CEO of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
Executive Vice president of Public Markets and Government Relations,
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (effective Nov. 1, 2021)
November 9, 2021
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH
Administrative Director, the Mongan Institute
Director, The Disparities Solutions Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
November 16, 2021
Claude-Alix Jacob, MPH
Director, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
November 23, 2021
Harriet Washington, MA
Author, Journalist
November 30, 2021
James O'Connell, MD
President
Boston Health Care for the Homeless
December 7, 2021
Jeffrey Beard, JD
Regional Administrator
Region 1 - Boston Regional Office
Health Resources and Services Administration
December 14, 2021
Aranthan S. Jones, II, MPH
Chief Corporate Affairs and Communications Officer
Vanda Pharmaceuticals
Fall 2020
July 30, 2020
Progress/Peril in US Health Reform in the Covid19/BLM Era
John McDonough, DrPH, MPA
Professor of the Practice of Public Health
Director of Executive and Continuing Professional Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
August 6, 2020
The Anatomy of Racial Disparities
Audra Meadows, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of Practice Quality and Innovation, Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital;
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School;
Leadership Team, Perinatal Neonatal Quality Improvement Network (PNQIN) of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
September 3, 2019
Course Introduction and Expectations
Alden Landry, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Dean, Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership
Associate Director and Advisor, Castle Society
Harvard Medical School
September 8, 2020
Orbiting the Hairball and Innovating Health
James Corbett, J.D., M.Div.
Principal, Initium Health, Denver, CO
September 15, 2020
The Power to Heal: The Case of Medicare and the Desegregation of Hospitals
David Barton Smith, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus, Health Administration and Health Policy, Temple University
Adjunct Research Professor, Health Policy and Management, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
September 22, 2020
Leading Change in a 21st Century Public Health Organization
LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH
Director
Washington, DC Department of Health
September 29, 2020
Medicine in the Streets: Three Decades Caring for Boston's Rough Sleepers
James O’Connell, MD
President
Boston Health Care for the Homeless
October 6, 2020
The Role of Health Systems: Leadership Through Crisis and Transformation
Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President, Chief Community Impact Officer, Ascension Healthcare
President and CEO, Ascension Providence Health System, Washington, DC
October 13, 2020
Priorities in Reducing Black Infant Mortality
Stephen Keith, MD, MSPH
Medical Director, Syneos Health
Chief Business Development and Medical Officer, Evanston Technology Partners
October 20, 2020
“Race and Language: the Impact on the Quality of Healthcare”
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH
Administrative Director, the Mongan Institute
Director, The Disparities Solutions Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
November 3, 2020
“Striving for Health Justice: The Role of Law in Creating and Remediating Health Injustice”
Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM
Associate Professor of Health Policy and of Law;
Director, Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program;
Co-Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, The George Washington University
November 10, 2020
“Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Cambridge”
Claude A. Jacob, MPH
Chief Public Health Officer
Cambridge Public Health Department
November 17, 2020
“Men's Health and Beyond: My Career in Public Service”
Jeffrey Beard, JD
Regional Administrator, Region 1 - Boston Regional Office, Health Resources and Services Administration
December 1, 2020
"Reflections: The Road to Becoming an Oral Physician"
Brian Swann, DDS, MPH
Chief of Oral Health, Cambridge Health Alliance
Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
December 15, 2020
“Between Tocqueville, Heschel, Baldwin, Coltrane, Basquiat and Me: When Corporate Fires Attract More Attention than Any Other Cries for Help”
Aranthan S. Jones II, MPH
Chief Corporate Affairs and Communications Officer
Vanda Pharmaceuticals
