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Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A Knox Professor of the School of Public Health at Boston University, will serve as the keynote speaker during the College of Health Sciences and Professions鈥� annual Spring Seminar later this month. 

Dr. Galea鈥檚 presentation, entitled 鈥淩ethinking our approach to health after a pandemic: Lessons learned from COVID-19,鈥� will take place virtually on Wednesday, March 16 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The event is free and open to OHIO students, faculty, staff and the surrounding community. is now available. 

Seminar Focus

We are approaching the end of a pandemic whose impact has also caused us to engage with new ways of thinking and doing. This COVID-19 moment should be a moment for public health to take stock, a moment to ask: who are we? What are we doing, and why?

Dr. Galea submits that a forward-looking public health should aspire to a radical vision of a better, healthier world for all, and should have the wisdom to achieve that world through gradual reform, guided by reason. He will discuss the implications this has for how we do what we do, informed by an analysis of what we did well鈥攁nd not鈥攄uring the pandemic. 

About Dr. Sandro Galea

Dr. Sandro Galea is the Dean and Robert A Knox Professor of the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is also a physician, social epidemiologist, prolific author and widely cited scholar. 

Dr. Galea was named one of Time magazine鈥檚 epidemiology innovators and has been listed as one of the 鈥淲orld鈥檚 Most Influential Scientific Minds.鈥�

Per his online biography, he is past chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. 

He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social science.

Additional information about Dr. Galea, his professional background and his impact on the world of health care is available online at .

About the CHSP Spring Seminar

The CHSP Spring Seminar is part of the Grover Lecture Series. First endowed in 1999, the Grover Lecture Series was established by Ann O. Grover and her husband, the late Brandon T. "Tad" Grover Jr., to bring nationally recognized speakers to campus to address health-related issues. The series celebrates the history of Grover Center by bringing in a speaker that is of interest to all disciplines.