PHC 6931 Seminar in Contemporary Public Health Issues
Invites UF faculty, students, and friends to a special seminar
Sustainability:
The JohnsHopkinsUniversityCenter for a Livable Future
Robert S. Lawrence, MD
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Director, Center for a Livable Future
BloombergSchool of Public Health
JohnsHopkinsUniversity
Monday, March 17, 2008
11:45AM – 1:20PM
Room G101, HPNPBuilding
Robert S. Lawrence, MD is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy and Management, and International Health at the JohnsHopkinsBloombergSchool of Public Health. He is the founding Director of the JohnsHopkinsCenter for a Livable Future and directs the Health and Human Rights Certificate Program.
A graduate of HarvardCollege and HarvardMedicalSchool, he trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts GeneralHospital. Following his three years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC, he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina as clinical director of a community health services project funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity. From 1974 – 1991 he directed the Division of Primary Care at Harvard Medical School where he led the development of primary care and community health training programs throughout the Harvard system. From 1980 – 1991 he also served as Chief of Medicine at CambridgeHospital. From 1991– 1995 he was the Director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing grants to improve health in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Dr. Lawrence is a founding member of Physicians for Human Rights and served as a member of the Board of Directors from 1985-1991, chair from 1997 – 2003, and was reelected in 2007 as chair. He has participated in human rights investigations in Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kosovo.
Dr. Lawrence chaired the first US Preventive Services Task Force from 1984 - 1989. For the Institute of Medicine he has chaired committees on Vaccine Priorities; Medicare Expansions; Thyroid Cancer Screening; Health Care Services in the U.S.-Associated Pacific Basin; Dioxin in the Food Supply; Evaluation of Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation; and Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development.
He is currently co-PI of a Pew Charitable Trusts grant to support the National Commission on Industrial Food Animal Production, which is investigating the impact of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) on air and water quality, animal welfare, antibiotic resistance, and rural communities