This Public Health Conversation Starter features Dr. Martin Shapiro, a physician, health services researcher, and a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Shapiro talks about his recent book “The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions” and discusses the disfunction in the American health care system.

In Conversation with Martin Shapiro

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Judy Norsigian, co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), in conversation with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea. Judy reflects on her role in the women's health movement, the foundations of OBOS, and what the future of OBOS will look like in the years to come.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

A full transcript of this conversation is available here:https://www.bu.edu/sph/files/2023/09/Transcript_In-Conversation-with-Judy-Norsigian.pdf

In Conversation With Judy Norsigian

This Public Health Conversation Starter features stef shuster, an associate professor in Lyman Briggs College and Sociology at Michigan State University, in conversation with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea about gender-affirming care and their book Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

For a full transcript of this recording, please visit: https://www.bu.edu/sph/conversations/uncategorized/in-conversation-with-stef-shuster/#phc-section-resources

In Conversation With stef shuster

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Dr. Lloyd Sederer in conversation with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Sederer speaks about mental healthcare at McLean Hospital and his new book, Caught in the Crosshairs of American Healthcare

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

A full transcript of this conversation is available here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/conversations/mental-and-behavioral-health/mental-healthcare-in-conversation-with-lloyd-sederer/#phc-section-resources

Mental healthcare: In conversation with Lloyd Sederer

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Dr. James Tabery in conversation with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Tabery speaks about his book, Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

In Conversation with James Tabery

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Dielle J. Lundberg, MPH (she/her and ze/hir) in conversation with Yvette Cozier, BUSPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. Dielle shares about her commitment to dismantling structural abelism in public health and healthcare.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health. This Starter is part of SPH Reads, our school-wide reading program hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. In conjunction with this year’s book selection, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Dean Cozier is having discussions with leaders who are working to advance the health of disabled populations.

A full transcript of this conversation is available here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/files/2024/02/In-Conversation-with-Dielle-Lundberg-Transcript.pdf

In Conversation with Dielle Lundberg

This Public Health Conversation Starter features emergency physician Dr. Marc-David Munk (SPH’99) in conversation with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Munk speaks about his book, Urgent Calls from Distant Places: An Emergency Doctor’s Notes about Life and Death on the Frontiers of East Africa.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

A full transcript of this conversation is available here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/files/2024/03/Transcript_In-Conversation-with-Marc-David-Munk.pdf

In Conversation with Marc-David Munk

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Dr. Neil Gong, sociologist at the University of California San Diego, in conversation with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Gong speaks about his book, Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

A full transcript will be provided as soon as possible.

In Conversation with Neil Gong

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Franklin Jones, Jr., lecturer in Deaf Studies at BU Wheelock, in conversation with Yvette Cozier, BUSPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health. This Starter is part of SPH Reads, our school-wide reading program hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. In conjunction with this year’s book selection, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Dean Cozier is having discussions with leaders who are working to advance the health of disabled populations.

A full transcript is available here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/files/2024/04/Transcript_In-Conversation-with-Franklin-Jones-Jr.-Audio-.pdf

In Conversation with Franklin Jones, Jr.

This Public Health Conversation Starter features writer and translator Laura Marris (CAS'03) in conversation with Dean Sandro Galea. Professor Marris speaks about her recent book, States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic, co-authored with Alice Kaplan.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

In Conversation with Laura Marris

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Roger Mitchell, Professor and Chair of Pathology at Howard University College of Medicine and immediate past Chief Medical Examiner for Washington, DC, in conversation with Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Mitchell speaks about his recent book, Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It, co-authored with Dr. Jay D. Aronson. 

A full transcript is available here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/conversations/health-inequities/in-conversation-with-roger-mitchell/#phc-section-resources


A full transcript is available here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/conversations/infectious-disease/in-conversation-with-laura-marris/#phc-section-resources

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In Conversation with Roger Mitchell

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