The Georgia State University School of Public Health will bring nationally recognized experts on human trafficking, public health law and health equity research to speak on critical issues in Spring 2024 as part of its Grand Rounds Lecture Series.
Dr. Hanni Stoklosa, Micah Berman and Dustin T. Duncan will visit campus between January and March. Details on the speakers and their talks, all of which are free and open to students and the public, are below.
“The Grand Rounds Lecture Series creates opportunities for faculty, students, staff and members of the community to come together and hear from prominent thought leaders in public health,” said Jalayne Arias, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences and chair of the Grand Rounds committee. “I’m delighted that Drs. Stoklosa, Berman and Duncan will visit campus and am grateful for the many people who work to make this lecture series a success.”
Dr. Hanni Stoklosa is the co-founder and CMO of HEAL Trafficking and an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. She is an internationally recognized expert, advocate, researcher and speaker on the wellbeing of trafficking survivors in the U.S. and internationally through a public health lens. She will deliver the Grand Rounds Lecture on January 18 from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Student Center Speaker’s Auditorium. Her talk is titled “Human Trafficking as a Public Health Issue: Where do we need to go from here?”
Micah Berman is a professor of public health and law at The Ohio State University’s College of Public Health and Michael E. Moritz College of Law. His research explores the intersection between public health research and legal doctrine, and he is a co-author of The New Public Health Law: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to public health and tobacco control through both research and advocacy, Berman has received the David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health from the American Public Health Association and the John Slade Award from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Berman will deliver the Grand Rounds Lecture on February 28 from noon – 1 p.m. in the Student Center Speaker’s Auditorium.
Dustin T. Duncan is the associate dean for health equity research and associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Duncan is an internationally recognized social and spatial epidemiologist. His pioneering research broadly seeks to understand how social and contextual factors, especially neighborhood characteristics, influence population health. Duncan’s intersectional and health equity-based research focuses on gay, bisexual and other sexually minoritized men and transgender people of color across the African diaspora, including in the U.S., Caribbean and Africa. Duncan will deliver the Grand Rounds Lecture on March 5 from noon – 1 p.m. in the Student Center Speaker’s Auditorium. His talk is titled "Nothing for Us Without Us: The Role Necessity of Intersectionality and (not or) Positionality in Health Equity Research."
Grand Rounds Lectures are free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Sponsored by the School of Public Health and organized by a committee led by Jalayne Arias, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, the Grand Rounds Lecture Series brings nationally recognized thought leaders to the Georgia State University School of Public Health for dialogues that contribute to the school’s mission of advancing health equity and solving contemporary and emerging health issues. To register and learn more, visit publichealth.gsu.edu/grandrounds/.
In addition to Arias, members of the Grand Rounds Committee are:
- Rachel Carr, MPH student
- Marcus Cooper, Facilities and Events Specialist
- Sam Fahmy, Director of Communications
- Ruschelle Leone, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences
- Kevin Maloney, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
- Lucy Popova, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences
- Claire Spears, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences
- Christine Stauber, Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
- Daniel Whitaker, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Dean for Research