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DLSPH: Virtual Symposium on Population Health’s Past, Present, and Future (Part 1)

  • 05 Feb 2021
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Virtual Symposium

Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH)

Virtual Symposium on Population Health’s Past, Present, and Future

With the onset of the COVID-19 era, we are at somewhat of a crossroads in the field of population health research. Data from several countries is demonstrating massive racial and socioeconomic inequalities in risk for acquiring Covid-19 and for the most severe associated outcomes. In Canada, this data has caused a groundswell of public and political attention on health inequalities, and of discourses about what policies may best address them. At this moment in time, it is well worth taking stock of the field of population health, which hasn’t been done for some time. What are the major findings of the 21st century to date? Where is the field headed in terms of its conceptual orientation to population health and health inequalities? What are the major data and methodological developments that will facilitate innovative population health research? What systems and structures would facilitate the uptake of findings from population health science in order to inform policies and other ways of making structural changes to society?


DAY 1 (MORNING OF FEBRUARY 5, 2021)

Introduction to the Symposium

Dr. Vivek Goel and Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi 

Historical Roots of Population Health and the Benefit of Hindsight

This session will be stage-setting.  It will give a sense of what we are talking about when we say, “population health.” What were the beginnings of the ‘population health’ movement in the literature? What were the main motivations for the initial set of research questions? What were the key findings? What did the originators envision were the implications of their work? 

Confirmed Speakers:

  • Dr. Ichiro Kawachi (Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
  • Dr. John Frank (Professor, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
  • Dr. Michèle Lamont (Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University)


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