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 health policy. The seminar series is offered as a course within the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences entitled “Leadership in 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 vulnerable, disadvantaged, and unsinsured 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 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.

 

Recent Seminar Speakers

Audra Meadows, MD MPH

Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Co-Chair of the Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts (PNQIN)

OB/GYN, University of California, San Diego – School of Medicine, San Diego, CA

 

John McDonough, DrPH, MPA

Professor of Public Health Practice, Department of Health Policy & Management, Director of Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

Roderick King, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer

University of Maryland Medical System

 

James Corbett, M.Div., JD

Principal, Initium Health, Denver, CO

 

Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA

Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Brown University

 

Kimberly Chang, MD, MPH

Family Physician, Director of Human Trafficking and Healthcare Policy, Asian Health Services; Commissioner, President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders

 

Kevin Simon, MD, MPH

Chief Behavioral Health Officer, Boston Public Health Commission; Assistant in Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

 

Christina Rosenthal, DDS, MPH

Owner/CEO, Paradigm Dental Center, Memphis, TN

Founder, The 516 Foundation

 

LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD, MPH

Executive Director of the GW SMHS Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity; Senior Associate Dean for Population Health and Health Equity; Bicentennial Endowed Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences; Professor of Medicine The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

 

Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH

Director, the Disparities Solutions Center; Director, Equity in Care Implementation; Administrative Director of Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Kameron Matthews MD, JD, FAAFP

Chief Health Officer, Cityblock Health

 

Monica Bharel, MD, MPH

Clinical Lead, Public Sector Health, Google

 

Claude-Alix Jacob, MPH

Director, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District

 

Harriet Washington, MA

Writer, Historian, Journalist

Lecturer in Bioethics, Columbia University

 

Donna Galbreath, MD

Senior Medical Director of Quality Assurance, Southcentral Foundation, Anchorage, AK

 

Aranthan S. Jones, II, MPH

Executive Vice President, Chief Strategic and Corporate Communications Officer, Monumental Sports & Entertainment

 

Jennifer Potter, MD

Professor of Medicine; Advisory Dean, William Bosworth Castle Society; Program Lead for the Harvard Medical School-wide HMS-Fenway LGBTQIA+ Health Fellowship Program; Harvard Medical School Co-Chair, Fenway Health Institute

 

Tyree Winters, DO

Vice Chair of Education and Director of Graduate Medical Education, Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Valley