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Marriage and Death: Conventional wisdom and unsolved puzzles |
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Special Event |
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Department of Epidemiology |
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Black and Latino Student Caucus at Mailman School of Public Health |
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Allan Rosenfield Building, 722 West 168th St.
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HESS STUDENT COMMONS |
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| Speaker(s) Name: |
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Ichiro Kawachi |
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health |
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| Event Description: |
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Ichiro Kawachi received his medical degree and Ph.D., both from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1992. Kawachi has published over 300 papers on the social and economic determinants of population health. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. His more recent books include The Health of Nations with Bruce Kennedy (The New Press, 2002), Neighborhoods and Health with Lisa Berkman (Oxford University Press, 2003), and Globalization and Health with Sarah Wamala of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2006). He has been a member of the MacArthur Network on SES and Health since 1998. Kawachi currently serves as the Senior Editor (Social Epidemiology) of the international journal Social Science & Medicine, as well as an Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology. He has served as a consultant to the Pan-American Health Organization/WHO and the World Bank. Most recently, he served as Special Advisor to the Measurement Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. |
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Open to the Columbia Community |
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No
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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:00 am -
11:30 am
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