Centers

Several times a year, the Inequalities Center invites outside speakers to address the Mailman School community. We seek speakers, in particular, who can enrich our perspectives on social inequalities and health.

2012 Speakers:

Ana Diez-Roux, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan

"Advances and Pitfalls in 'social epidemiology': lessons for population health research"

April 30, 2012, 3:30-4:30 PM, Hess Commons

John Jost, Professor of Psychology, NYU  

“A System Justification Perspective on Social Stratification and Inequality"

May 17, 2012, 12:30-2:00 PM, Hess Commons

Past Speakers

• Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology, NYU, "Alone in America" February 16, 2012. 
• Sue Estroff (PDF), Professor of Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, April 21, 2011: "Prevention Perilous? Early/Forced/Feasible Intervention in Psychiatry circa 2011."
• Adrienne Asch (PDF), Professor of Bioethics, Yeshiva University, February 24th, 2011: "Prenatal diagnosis & selective abortion: a challenge to practice & policy."
• Peter Beresford (PDF), Senior Lecturer of Social Policy, Brunel University, November 11th, 2010: "Psychiatric system survivors, the disabled people's movement, and solidarity: It should work in practice, but can it work in theory?"
• James Morone (PDF), Professor of Political Science & Urban Studies, Brown University, September 23rd, 2010: "The Dirty Rotten Secrets of Health Reform: History, Politics, and the Obama legacy."
• Erik Olin Wright (PDF), Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison, January 28, 2010: “From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis.”
• Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett (PDF), Co-founders of The Equality Trust, January 14, 2010: "The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better."
• Susan Fiske (PDF), Professor of Psychology, Princeton University, September 22, 2009: "Universal Dimensions of Inequality: Warmth and Competence."
• Joe Feagin (PDF), Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, April 2, 2009
• David Williams (PDF), Professor of Public Health, African and African American Studies, and Sociology, Harvard University, Feb 21, 2008
• Cecilia Ridgeway (PDF), Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences, Stanford University, Oct 18, 2007
• John Dovidio (PDF), Professor of Psychology, Yale University, May 9, 2007
• Ichiro Kawachi (PDF),  Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard University, Mar 9, 2007
• Peter Conrad (PDF), Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University, Nov 29, 2006