Apr 10 2025

National Public Health Week Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Nancy Krieger

April 10, 2025

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location

Student Center West - Thompson Rooms

Address

828 S. Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612

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Join the UIC School of Public Health and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) for an important discussion on the current and future state of public health with Dr. Nancy Krieger, internationally renowned epidemiologist and professor of social epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Krieger will be presenting her lecture: Health justice and critical science in a time of oligarchy & opportunistic science denialism: an ecosocial analysis followed by a conversation and Q&A with Dean Giles, dean of the UIC School of Public Health. The event will conclude with a reception. UIC students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members and friends are welcome.

This is a free event but we are requesting RSVPs in advance.

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Contact

Cara Traczek
ctraczek@uic.edu

Date posted

Feb 6, 2025

Date updated

Mar 20, 2025

Speakers

Nancy Krieger | Professor of Social Epidemiology | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist (PhD, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley, 1989), with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health, plus 30+ years of activism involving social justice, science, and health.