The Politics of Health Conference

Schedule of Events

THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
THURSDAY, October 3, 2013
Sarratt 220, Vanderbilt University
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2:00pm Welcome

Carolyn Dever
Dean, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University

2:20pm Introductory Remarks

Jonathan Metzl
Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

2:45pm Opening Address

Emilie Townes
Dean, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University

 

3:30 – 5:00pm PANEL I:  Health and Social Justice

Chairs: Jonathan Metzl, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt
Laura Stark, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt

 
Discussants/Panelists: Wayne Riley
President and CEO, Meharry Medical College

Jeff Balser
Dean, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Jesse Ehrenfeld
Director, Program for LGBTI Health, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University

Christopher Coleman
Tennessee Justice Center

Melinda Buntin
Deputy Assistant Director for Health, Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 

5:00pm Closing Address, day 1

Speaker: Sue Siegel
CEO, healthyimagination, General Electric Corporate Officer

6:30 Party

Yazoo Brewery
910 Division St, Nashville, TN 37203 (615) 891-4649

 

THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
FRIDAY, October 4, 2013
Peabody Commons MPR 235/237, Vanderbilt University
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

9:30am Student-Led Panel:  The Future of Health and Healthcare

Student Organizers: Max Brodsky
Kate Lintel
MHS Student Advisory Board

 
Faculty Discussants: JuLeigh Petty, Assistant Director, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt

Hector Myers, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt
Priscilla Wald, Duke University

Larry Churchill, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt

Sten Vermund, Director Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt

 

Co-Hosted by the Vanderbilt Office of Active Citizenship and Service

11:00-12:40              PANEL II:  Health Aesthetics and Infrastructures

Chair: Ken MacLeish, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt

 
Keynote: Milton Curry
Dean, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning,
University of Michigan

 
Respondents: Susan Cahn
Department of History, University of Buffalo

Aimi Hamraie
Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

Jay Clayton
Director, The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy,
Vanderbilt University

Julia Landstreet
Executive Director, Nashville Civic Design Center

Kitt Carpenter
Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

 

 

12:45pm LUNCH

2:00-3:30pm PANEL III: Social Foundations of Health

Co-hosted by the Vanderbilt Black Cultural Center

Chair: Derek Griffith, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt; Dominique Behague, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt

 
Keynote: Tyrone Forman,
Department of Sociology and Director, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race & Difference, Emory University

 
Respondents: Monique Lyle
Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Lindsey Andrews,
Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

Arleen Tuchman
Department of History, Vanderbilt University

Amy Non,
Department of Anthropology and Medicine, Health, and Society,
Vanderbilt University

3:45pm Closing Address

Introduction: Frank Dobson, Director, Vanderbilt Black Cultural Center

 
Speaker: Priscilla Wald
Department of English, Duke University

 

4:30pm Plans for the Future:

Laura Stark, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt

Jonathan Metzl, Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt

 

 

5:00pm Closing Reception, MHS, 300cc Calhoun Hall

Co-hosted by the Vanderbilt School of Medicine

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