Seminars

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.

Seminar Speaker Examples

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

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

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

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

Tyree Winters, DO

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