This event is the second session in the event series: Racism in Public Health: Historical Perspective and Current Challenges.
The Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins are hosting a speaker series on historical and ongoing forms of racism that operate in the field of public health. This series aims to confront the historical and ongoing forms of racism that exist in the field of public health, while learning about alternative methods of conducting public health that have attempted to resist and challenge such legacies.
Session 2 - Eugenics and Population Control: Racism and Reproduction in Public Health
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 4:00pm EST
Speakers: Phillipa Levine, PhD, Professor, Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas, Director, British, Irish and Empire Studies, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, and Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco; Moderator: Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD
Public health interventions have contributed to legacies of selectively valued reproduction, often under the guise of global population control, welfare, and economic development. This session will examine public health’s involvement in family planning and other reproductive health research and programs, from colonial eugenics to sterilization of incarcerated people. A short reception will follow in the Wolfe Street Gallery (registration required).
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Session 1 - Race, Racism and the Origins of Epidemiology
Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 12:15pm EST
Speakers: Jim Downs, PhD, MA, Gilder Lehrman- National Endowment for the Humanities Professor, Civil War Era Studies and History, Gettysburg College and Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Hillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill; Moderator: Alexandre “Sasha” White, PhD, Assistant Professor, History of the History of Medicine, and Associate Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
This initial session considers the histories of race and racism in the field of epidemiology and how they persist in the present.
Check out the recording here.
Session 3 - Race, Racism, and Data Practices in Public Health
Friday, October 21, 2022 at 1:00pm EST
Speakers: Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health and Lundy Braun, PhD, Professor of Medical Science, Professor, Africana Studies, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University; Moderator: Kim Gallon, PhD, MD, MLIS, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Brown University
Click here for more information and to register for session 3 of Racism in Public Health: Historical Perspective, Current Challenges. (Please note this session is also a part of the Achieving Health Equity in a World of Data Conference which is reflected on the registration page).
Additional sessions will be announced later this fall. This event series is a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Department of History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
