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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2025-04-16 16:15 2025-04-16 17:20 UTC use-title Location Wolfe Street Building/W2030 (Paige Hall) Zoom
Speaker
Katherine Magnuson
Professor
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Katherine Magnuson is the director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Social Work. Her research focuses on the well-being and development of economically disadvantaged children and their families. She examines how disparities in socioeconomic status (SES) affect children’s development, and how these effects may be altered by policies and programs, especially early childhood education programs. She also investigates how maternal education impacts child development.
Registration
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PAUL A. HARPER, MD, MPH’47
Paul A. Harper was a pediatrician and early leader of academic maternal and child health (MCH) as well as an advocate and founder of the population movement. He received his medical education at Yale where he was influenced by Martha May Eliot, one of the founders of the field of maternal and child health in the United States. His academic career was interrupted by World War II where he served as an Army chief of infectious diseases working on the eradication of malaria in the South Pacific. In 1947, he completed his Masters of Public Health degree at Hopkins and was immediately appointed to be director of the Division, and later the Department of Maternal and Child Health, which he chaired until 1970. His early recognition of the challenges of rapid population growth in developing countries led to his work in East Pakistan and other parts of the world and to the creation, in 1970, of the Department of Population Dynamics here at the school. He was a great visionary, teacher and leader. His textbook, (1962) inspired the work of succeeding generations of pediatricians. His ideas and work have had a profound impact on the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
