[EQ] Health Protectionomics: A New Science of People, Policy, and Politics

 Health Protectionomics: A New Science of People, Policy, and Politics

George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
September 19, 2007

Ruth Katz, Dean George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Julie Gerberding, Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 Website - Video and Transcript available at:: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/gwu/19sep07
 

George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Public Health Grand Rounds series examined global health. Pfizer is sponsoring the nine-part series as part of its Milestones in Public Health initiative.

Transcript: PDF [44p.] at:
 http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_files/091907_gw_%20protectionomics_transcript.pdf 

".......We really are talking now about our role in health protection as one of two main frames of our work and we still mean prevention. We are still very much committed to the prevention of disease, injury an disability but we are also increasingly focusing on health promotion in a broader context of the things that promote and engender good health as well as preparedness, given the times and the requirement that we have for preparing against merging threats so these three P’s, promotion, prevention and preparedness, are really a broader frame of our work at CDC.

.. The investments that congress and policy makers are making in us but they don’t tell the whole story because whether we have ever made it explicit or it is just implicitly part of our hearts and our genes if you will, there is another lane that we care as much about and that really is the whole concept of health equity.

You didn’t see it in our mission statement in the past but we are working our way to making this a very visible and prominent part of what we intend to accomplish at CDC and we haven’t even quite settled on our organizational definition of health equity. Obviously it is the absence of disparity, however you define it, but equity brings into play a much broader dimension, the social context and the sense of justice and fairness that we all want to achieve for people who are trying to develop their optimal health status. So health protection, health equity really are the framework for CDC’s work ...."

Public Health Grand Rounds : 2007-2008

Website:http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/events/phGrandRounds.cfm

The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services launched a new lecture series
Public Health Grand Rounds will be held monthly during the 2007 – 2008 academic year, and is open to the Medical Center, the University, and all those within the public health and healthcare community. Pfizer, Inc. is sponsoring the nine-part series.

2007-2008 Public Health Grand Rounds Schedule
(Please click the link for each event for more information on the speaker.)

Date, Time, Location	Speaker and Topic Information	Presentation Material	Webcast / Podcast
Wednesday, September 19th Ross Hall Room 101/105 Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. Julie Gerberding, CDC Director "Health Protectionomics: A New Science of People, Policy and Politics"		Webcast Podcast Transcript
Tuesday, October 16th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. Arthur Kellermann, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Injury Control at Emory University School of Medicine TBA
Tuesday, November 20th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	TBA TBA
Tuesday, December 11th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. John Ruffin, Director, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Health Disparities
Tuesday, January 22nd GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Russell Pate, MD, University of South Carolina "Physical Activity and Public Policy"
Tuesday, February 19th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	TBA TBA
Tuesday, March 4th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. Kevin DeCook HIV/AIDS
Tuesday, March 25th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	TBA TBA
Tuesday, April 8th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm

 

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