The International Development, Community and Environment department presents it spring lecture series.

Susan Reverby

Wednesday, March 31 from 4:00—6:00 p.m.; the Rose Library in the Cohen-Lasry House

Susan Reverby is a professor in the History of Ideas and Women’s Studies program at Wellesley College. She is a historian of medicine and public health, and author of the new book Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (UNC Press, 2009). She will be speaking on the Tuskegee study, its legacy, and research ethics.

Sandra Lane

Wednesday, April 7; 4 to 6 p.m.; the Rose Library in the Cohen-Lasry House

Sandra Lane is chair of Health and Wellness and a professor of Social Work at Syracuse University, as well as a Research Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She is the author of Why are Our Babies Dying? Pregnancy, Birth and Death in America (Paradigm Publishers, 2008). She will be speaking on structural violence, health disparities and embedded racism from the perspective of community-participatory research and advocacy.

Lundy Braun

Wednesday, April 14; 4 to 6 p.m.; Rose Library in the Cohen-Lasry House

Lundy Braun is an associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies and a member of the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies. Her research examines the historical production of race in public health and medicine. She has looked at the ways in which understandings of race shaped and were shaped by the development, application, and globalization of the technology of spirometry.

Russ Lopez

Tuesday, April 20; 12 to 2 p.m.; Jonas Clark Hall, room 118)

Russell Lopez is a senior research associate with the Dukakis Center at Northeastern University, researcher on urban health and on segregation and health, and author of several books on public and urban health. He will be speaking on the topic of health and segregation.