Saturday, April 18 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Rethinking Public Health: Restoring Trust in a Politically Diverse Nation. Sponsored by With You. The WashU Campaign
Join Dean Sandro Galea and Dr. Salma Abdalla for an engaging fireside chat where they will explore how increasing polarization and erosion of trust impedes public health’s ability to serve whole populations. We know that public health messages and policies are now received very differently across political identities. This conversation will explore how WashU Public Health is systematically exploring how public health currently thinks, talks and acts, testing alternative approaches, and developing a playbook that reframes and guides the field of public health for a politically diverse nation.
Speakers:
• Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the School of Public Health,
Eugene S. and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health,
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives
• Salma Abdalla, MBBS, MPH, DrPH
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Co-Director of the Global Health Futures Innovation Research Network