Attendees will have the chance to enter and win one of five copies of Dr. Alfredo Morabia’s book “The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19” (John Hopkins University Press, 2023). Copies will also be available to purchase at the event.
NDSU’s Department of Public Health will host a public seminar featuring internationally known physician, epidemiologist and historian of medicine Dr. Alfredo Morabia, on Thursday, Oct. 31 in the Memorial Union’s Anishinaabe Theater. The presentation will be from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Dr. Morabia’s topic will be titled “Population Thinking from the Black Death to the Present,” which will offer insights into the evolution of population-based approaches to public health, spanning from historical pandemics to contemporary global health crises like COVID-19. It will also explain how population health is different from individual care delivered in medical settings.
Asked about the importance of this presentation, NDSU Department of Public Health faculty member, Dr. Mark Strand, said, “Dr. Morabia will explain how population thinking is, and has always been, the key to improving health. Bringing a global and a historical perspective, Dr. Morabia will inform and entertain attenders.”
Morabia has served as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health since 2015. He is currently a professor of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center of Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York. Morabia also is a professor of clinical epidemiology in the department of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York.
Attendees will have the chance to enter and win one of five copies of Morabia’s book “The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19” (John Hopkins University Press, 2023). Copies will also be available to purchase at the event.
For those who can’t attend in person, register to receive a Zoom link.
