Global Health Lectures + Recordings

Robert McLean MSc, PhD
“A Better Measure of Research for Sustainable Development”
12-12-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Mark Janko, PhD MS MA
“Challenges to Malaria Control in the Congo and Amazon Basins”
12-11-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Mahesh Karra
“Family Planning, Children's Human Capital, and Women's Work: Experimental Evidence from Urban Malawi”
12-06-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Bianca Carducci, PhD
“Towards a Healthier Planet: Uniting Public and Planetary Health for Food and Nutrition Security”
12-04-2024 |  Link to lecture 

B. Ethan Coston
“Flourishing After Trauma: The Role of Community-Driven Dissemination and Implementation Science”
11-22-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Luissa Vahedi, PhD
“Syndemics: The New Frontier in Global Health Equity”
11-14-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Irene Njuguna, MBChB, MPH, PhD
“Surviving and Thriving: Building Sticky Interventions for Children and Youth Affected by HIV”
11-06-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Victoria Haldane, MPH, PhD
“Implementation Science for Global Health: Exploring Contexts, Lived Experiences, and Adaptations for Implementation at Scale”
10-30-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Danielle Giovenco, PhD
“Innovative Interventions for HIV Prevention and Care: Addressing Social and Structural Barriers for South African Youth”
10-24-2018-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Dr. John Blevins, Dr. KM Venkat Narayan
“Religions' Influences on Public Health Practice: Partner or Detractor?”
10-23-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Erica Felker-Kantor, MA, MSPH, PhD
“ Using Innovative Methods to Explore and Assess the Effects of Social and Environmental
Contexts on Risk Behaviors among Vulnerable Populations with HIV ”
10-10-2024 | Link to lecture

Duane D. Booysen, PhD
“ Contextualizing Trauma-Focused Therapies for PTSD in Community Settings:
Perspectives on Prolonged Exposure Therapy ”
10-09-2024 | Link to lecture 

Soham Subedi, MS
“ Social and Behavioral Change Communication to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in Nepal”
09-25-2024 | Link to lecture

Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco, MD, PhD
“ Pragmatic evidence and tools for global health – the role of data
and novel analytics”
08-21-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Jithin Sam Varghese, PhD MTech
“ Public Health Surveillance for Changing Times”
08-19-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Annie Hardison-Moody, PhD, MTS
““I just take it day by day”: Rural mothers’ experiences of political disenfranchisement,
and its impact on their health and food security”
04-24-2024 | Link to lecture 

Melari Shisha Nongrum, PhD
“Insights into Tribal Health: case studies from Northeast India's tribal communities”
04-12-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Samhita Kumar, MPH,  Kenneth Castro, MD  and Sarita Shah, MD
Hubert Department of Global Health Special Event
03-27-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Lu Gram, PhD
“What Works to Promote Action Against Gender Based Violence? A Series of Studies in Mumbai, India”
03-20-2024 |  Link to lecture 

Rachel Waford, PhD, ABPP
“From “Community-Based” mental health care to “Community-Informed” mental health care:
Using global mental health models to serve individuals and families living with psychosis in Metro Atlanta.”
01-24-2024 | Link to lecture 

Dr. Parveen Bhalla, Dr. Mona Duggal
“Transforming Lives Through Wheat Flour Fortification in India”
11-08-2023 |  Link to lecture 

Maria Dieci, PhD
“Can Incentives Improve Quality of Malaria Care? Evidence on Patient and Provider Decision-making from Kenyan Pharmacies”
10-25-2023 |  Link to lecture 

Camila Boynton, MPH
“Modernizing the Learning Experience: Novel Approaches to Upskilling Public Health Data Scientists”
09-27-2023 |  Link to lecture 

Alemseged Abdissa, PhD
“Biomedical and Clinical Research: Lessons from Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
04-26-2023 |  Link to lecture 

James (Jim) Lavery, PhD
“How Can We Improve the Effectiveness of Global Health Campaigns?”
04-12-2023 |  Link to lecture 

Hanqi Luo, MS, PhD
“Streamline Information Analysis in Global Nutrition”
03-22-2023 |  Link to lecture 

Aryeh Stein, PhD
“A Life-Course Approach to Human Development: Insights from COHORTS”
02-08-2023 |  Link to lecture 

Glen Maberly, MD
“When the COVID pandemic meets the Diabetes epidemic in western Sydney, Australia: How did we respond?”
11-10-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Elizabeth Rhodes, PhD, MS
“Applying a rapid qualitative approach in community engaged implementation research: a case example from an evaluation of a breastfeeding peer counseling program in the US”
11-09-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Guilherme S. Ribeiro, MD, MS, PhD
“Emergence, Spread, and Impact of Chikungunya Virus in Brazil: Findings from an Urban Epicenter”
10-26-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Vivek Virendra Singh, MBBS, MPH
“Health Security, System Resilience, and Sustainable Development Goals – The India COVID-19 Case”
10-12-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Luke Nyakarahuka, PhD, MPH, BVM
“A decade of characterizing the epidemiology of viral hemorrhagic fevers in Uganda”
09-26-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Jonny Crocker, PhD
“Applying Implementation Science models and methods in the global health context from WASH to HIV and back again”
09-14-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Ben Lopman, PhD MSc
“Epidemiology and the Coming Golden Age of Vaccines"
04-28-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Neel Gandhi, MD
“A Vision for Global Health from the Perspective of Tuberculosis, an Ancient Disease”
04-27-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Mohammed Ali, MD, MSc, MBA
"Implementation Science and Global Health: The Future is Now"
04-26-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Karen Holzberg, MPH, and Juan Leon, PhD, MPH
Protecting Food Workers from SARS-CoV-2 During Produce Production and Processing – an Industry/University Partnership
02-23-2022 |  Link to lecture 

Subasri Narasimhan, MPH, PhD and Anna Newton-Levinson, MPH, PhD
The GEMMA Workshop: Lessons Learned from a Community Abortion Education Workshop
01-12-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Tiarney Ritchwood, PhD
Working With and For Communities to Address Syndemics and Advance Health Equity
12-10-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, PhD, MHS
Addressing Economic Determinants of HIV Vulnerabilities in High-Risk Young Adults
12-09-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH, C.P.H.
Contextually-relevant interventions to mitigate vaccination inequities and hesitancy
12-07-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Joshua Jeong, ScD
Engaging Fathers to Improve Global Early Child Development
12-03-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Meredith Brooks, PhD, MPH
Innovative applications of clinical and routine data to improve pediatric tuberculosis care
12-01-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Fernando Alarid-Escudero, PhD
From COVID-19 to Cancer: Informing Global Health Policy with Decision Modeling
11-30-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH
Using Rights-Based Approaches to Health for Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Response
11-23-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Sophia Hussen, MD, MPH
The Glass is Half Full: Strengths-Based Approaches to HIV-focused Research, Education and Practice
11-19-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Sheela Sinharoy, PhD, MPH
Improving global nutrition: Interdisciplinary solutions to a multifactorial problem
11-18-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Michael H. Chung, MD, MPH, FRCP
Treating Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia in Women Living with HIV in Kenya
11-17-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Yaw Addo, MS, PhD
Time to Change How We Define Anemia Globally - Evidence from 79K Individuals from 25 Countries
10-27-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Kavita Singh, PhD
Collaborative Quality Improvement Initiative for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in India (C-QIP Study)
09-22-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Carol J. Haley, PhD, MS
Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond
09-08-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Cynthia G. Whitney, MD, MPH
Current Breakthroughs and Future Directions from CHAMPS
05-05-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Ashley L. Greiner, MD, MPH
Are Countries “Ready”? Strengthening International Emergency Operations and Workforce Capacity
04-14-2021 |  Link to lecture 

David Flood, MD, MSc
Implementation of Comprehensive Cardiometabolic Care in Guatemala
03-24-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Elizabeth Rhodes, MS, PhD
Scaling Up Evidence-Based Nutrition and Diabetes Interventions in Community and Healthcare Settings
03-17-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, FFPH
Strengthening Health Security through National Public Health Institutes
03-10-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Liliana Aguayo, MPH, PhD
Childhood and Adolescence Origins of Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease in Adulthood
02-24-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Saria Hassan, MD
Increasing Severity of Extreme Weather Events and Rising Prevalence of Chronic Diseases: A Recipe for Disaster

Special Seminar
We Have Vaccines, Now How Do We Deliver Them To Everyone Locally and Globally?
01-28-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Depmala Pokhriyal
Do Financial Incentives Matter to Mothers: Evidence from an India Study
01-27-2021 |  Link to lecture 

Bethany Caruso, PhD & Sheela Sinharoy, PhD
Development and validation of a measure of empowerment in urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries: the Measuring Urban Sanitation and Empowerment (MUSE) study
11-18-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Sophia Hussen, MD & Marxavian Jones, MPA
The B6 Project: Developing a Social Capital Intervention with and for Young Black gay men
11-11-2020 |  Link to lecture 

M. Farhan Majid, PhD
Economics of Global Health
11-04-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Dr. Ikechukwu (Ike) Ogbuanu, MD, MPH, PhD
High-Resolution Mortality Surveillance in Sierra Leone: The Experience of CHAMPS before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
10-28-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Sarita Shah, MD MPH
COVID-19 RESPONSE IN FULTON COUNTY: Supporting testing, case investigation, and epidemiologic analysis for public health action
10-14-2020 |  Link to Presentation Slides 

Tiffany Gust Duque, MPH, RDN
Cochrane US COVID-19
09-23-2020 |  Link to lecture 

John N. Nkengasong, MSc, PhD
COVID-19 IN AFRICA
09-09-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Scott JN McNabb, PhD, MS
Now is Time to Modernize U.S. Public Health Surveillance
08-26-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Matthew Magee, PhD
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases: Incidence of diabetes mellitus and pulmonary impairment among TB survivors
04-29-2020 |  Link to lecture 

John Blevins, PHD
Religion’s Varied Effects on the COVID-19 Outbreak Response
04-22-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Chima J. Ohuabunwo MD, MPH, FWACP
Innovations in Overcoming Socio-cultural Barriers and Accelerating Polio Eradication Efforts, Northern Nigeria, 2012-2019
04-15-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Scott JN McNabb, PhD, MS
Africa CDC Institute for Workforce Development Strengthens Public Health and Clinical Capacity Through Moving Blockbuster to Netflix
04-08-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Rachel Waford, PhD
Global Mental Health in the age of COVID-19:Our collective Peril
03-25-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Fernando Riosmena, PhD
Immigrant Mental and Physical Health throughout the 21st Century
03-18-2020 |  Link to lecture 

K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA
Back to the Future: Historic roots of diabetes point to counter-intuitive solutions
03-04-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Karla Galaviz, MSc, PhD
Expanding Implementation Science and Capacity for GLocal Chronic Conditions
02-26-2020 |  Link to lecture 

James Lavery, PhD
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Disease Control
02-14-2020 |  Link to lecture 

Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, PhD
Emerging Global Food Safety Issues and Opportunities - UGA Center for Food Safety Introduction
12-04-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Adam Thompson
Data-Driven Global Health
11-20-2019 |  Link to lecture 

George Kamkamidze, MD, PhD, MS
Hepatitis C Elimination – The Country of Georgia Experience
11-19-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Dr. Abhay Bang
Research with the People
11-14-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Dr. John Blevins, Dr. Ellen Idler, Dr. Mimi Kiser, Ms. Ahoua Kone
Religion and Public Health: An Emory Distinctive
11-13-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Carlos del Rio, MD, FIDSA
Ending the HIV Epidemic Globally & Locally
10-30-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Breanna Wodnik, MPH
The Roles of Stakeholder Experience and Organizational Learning in Declining Mass Drug Administration Coverage for Lymphatic Filariasis in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A Case Study
10-23-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Stanley O. Foster, MD
Bangladesh Independence and Smallpox – A Unique Partnership. 221,607 Smallpox Cases; 44321 Smallpox Deaths. A 50 Year Reflection (1970 – 2019).
10-16-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Kate Winskell, PhD & Gaëlle Sabben, MPH
A Smartphone Game to Prevent HIV among Young Africans
10-02-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Scott JN McNabb, PhD, MS
“Africa CDC Institute for Workforce Development Moves Blockbuster
to Netflix in Training Public Health Professionals in African Union Member States”
09-18-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Roger Rochat, MD
Abortion and Public Health
09-04-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Ali AlShehri, MD, MSc, FRCGP, ACHE, MFPH
The Need for a Healthcare Leadership Program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; HELP
08-26-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Claudia E. Ordóñez
Harnessing Medical Pluralism in South Africa: Culture-Centered HIV Interventions
04-24-2019 |  Link to lecture 

R.L. Felipe Lobelo, MD, PhD, FAHA
Football Is Medicine: A global movement for engaging lifestyle interventions
04-17-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Global Health MPH Candidates - Seema Sandhu, Puneet Anantharam, Mahnoor Mahmood
Decolonizing Global Health: Overturning the Political, Economic, and Social Conditions of the Status Quo
04-10-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Joyce C. Ho, MA, PhD
Assessing machine learning methods for predicting cardiovascular disease complications in people with diabetes
04-09-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Brieanne Kidd Kohrt, PhD
Going global to address the local: Methods for closing gaps to mental health care for the Latinx
04-03-2019 |  Link to lecture 

James V. Lavery, PhD
Stakeholder engagement and the implementation of Global Health programs
03-27-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Chima J. Ohuabunwo MD, MPH
Promoting the One Health Approach in Sub-Saharan Africa: AFENET Collaborations
03-20-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Michael F. Iademarco, MD, MPH
Public Health Leadership and Health Diplomacy: a Federal Perspective
03-06-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Robert F. Breiman, MD
Early Findings from CHAMPS
02-27-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH, Lara S. Martin, MA, MPH, Eva Lathrop, MD, MPH, and Sydney Spangler, MSN, PhD
Emory University and the new 2018 Inter-Agency Field Manual (IAFM) on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings
02-20-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Scott JN McNabb, PhD, MS
New Africa CDC Institute for Workforce Development
02-13-2019 |  Link to lecture 

William Patterson, MS, PhD
Lessons Learned in International Development – 20+ Years in USAID
01-23-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Quique Bassat MD, MSc, Phd
Malaria eradication: Where are we coming from and where are we going?
01-15-2019 |  Link to lecture 

Jeffrey P. Koplan MD, MPH, Robert Breiman, MD, Parmi Suchdev, MD MPH
What’s new and exciting at the Emory Global Health Institute
12-05-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Jessica K. Fairley, MD, MPH
Challenges of Leprosy Control: Impact of Poverty, Co-infections and Nutrition on Disease Burden in Endemic Regions
11-28-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Cari Jo Clark, ScD, MPH
Preliminary findings from the Change Starts at Home Trial, a Social and Behavior Change Communication Intervention
11-14-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Walter A. Orenstein, MD, DSC (Hon)
Ending an infectious disease permanently: The polio eradication effort – progress and lessons learned
11-07-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Rachel Waford, PhD
Walking the walk: Promoting mental health in public health settings
10-31-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Christopher N. Ford, PhD MPH
Obesity and hypophagia in the age of cardiometabolic disease: Perspectives from Populations to Persons
10-24-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Emergency Response and Recovery Branch at CDC
Health in Humanitarian Emergencies -- Principles and Practice for Public Health and Healthcare Practitioners
10-17-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Mohannad Al Nsour, MSc, PhD
Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network - A Driving Force in Public Health
10-10-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Usha Ramakrishnan, PhD
Nutrition Education during the Preconception Period
10-03-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Randall M. Packard, PhD
The Limits of Global Health: A Historical Perspective
9-26-2018 |  Link to lecture 

John N. Nkengasong, MSc PhD
Africa CDC and a New Public Health Order for Africa's Health Security
9-12-2018 |  Link to lecture 

A. Cornelius Baker
Moving from hard to reach to the center of our attention:Addressing the HIV epidemic among black gay men
8-29-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Carol Anderson, PhD
One Person, One Vote: How voter suppression is destroying our democracy
2-28-2018 |  Link to lecture 

Ines Gonzalez-Casanova, PhD
Trajectories in child health, nutrition, and development
12-13-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Erica A. Krisel, MPH
The American Cancer Society’s Response to the Emerging Cancer Burden in the Developing World
11-29-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Fuminori Sakai, MD, PhD
Global Epidemiology of Pneumococcal Diseases: How I became a Public Health Detective
11-15-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Donna Spiegelman, ScD
The case for the promotion of healthy workplace environments in the battle against the global cardiometabolic diseases epidemic
11-01-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Matthew Freeman, PhD, MPH
Water, sanitation and hygiene for the control of neglected tropical diseases: recent evidence and emerging approaches
10-25-2017 |  Link to lecture 

LT Ryan M. Wallace DVM, MPH
Frontline Public Health: A One Health Approach to Stopping the World’s Deadliest Disease
10-18-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Kate Meehan, MPH
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Intervention for Maternal and Newborn Health in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
10-04-2017 |  Link to lecture 

James V. Lavery, PhD
Humanizing Global Health
09-27-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Lynnette M. Neufeld, PhD
Evaluation of population-based nutrition programs: challenges and opportunities
09-20-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Solveig Argeseanu-Cunningham, PhD, MA, MSc
Migration, assimilation, and health among refugee families in the U.S. and Europe
09-06-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Sherry Tanumihardjo, PhD MS
The Changing Landscape of Vitamin A Programs Globally
08-30-2017 |  Link to lecture 

Scott JN McNabb, PhD, MS
Transforming Public Health Surveillance to Achieve the Global Health Security Agenda
08-23-2017 |  Link to lecture 

A. David Napier, PhD
Cultural and Social Risk Factors in Type 2 Diabetes: A Multinational Urban Study
04-19-2017 | Link to lecture

Phuong Hong Nguyen, PhD
Evaluating the Impact of Large-scale Behavior Change Communications Programs in Bangladesh and Vietnam: The Alive & Thrive Initiative
04-12-2017 | Link to lecture

Lana O'Son and Susan Cookson
The impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on tuberculosis control in Lebanon and Jordan
04-05-2017 | Link to lecture

Koop Group
Zika Virus Emergency Response Perspectives
03-22-2017 | Link to lecture

Lindsey Locks, PhD
Scaling-up Micronutrient Powder Interventions: From Efficacy Trials to Implementation
03-15-2017 | Link to lecture

Melissa Young, PhD, CLC
1st 1000 Days: Critical Window of Opportunity for Maternal and Child Nutrition - Research and Teaching: Current and Future
03-06-2017 | Link to lecture

Guillermo Umpierrez, MD, FACP, FACE
Diabesity (Diabetes-Obesity) in Latinos: An Emerging Epidemic
03-01-2017 | Link to lecture

Laura E. Smith, PhD
Evaluation of mycotoxin exposure in rural Zimbabwe: Implications for maternal and child health
02-22-2017 | Link to lecture

Mohammed K. Ali, MD, MSc, MBA
The Evidence for and Barriers to Promoting Healthier Lifestyles
02-15-2017 | Link to lecture

Scott JN McNabb, PhD MS & Ghada. N. Farhat, PhD MPH
Field Epidemiology and Management & Leadership Training Programs in Liberia and Sierra Leone
11-30-2016 | Link to lecture

Robert A. Bednarczyk, PhD
Measles eliminated in the Americas – No need to worry about it anymore, Right?
11-02-2016 | Link to lecture

Rachel N. Waford, PhD
Early Intervention in Psychosis: Creating a Broader Mental Health Community
10-12-2016 | Link to lecture

Scott JN McNabb, PhD, MS
Transforming Public Health Surveillance
08-31-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Ali M. Al Shehri, MD
Public Health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Past, present and future
04-20-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Stephen Bentley
Evolution of pneumococcal genome towards evading the effects of vaccines and antibiotics
04-19-2016 |  Link to lecture 

George Roark
Logistics in Complex Emergencies-eating Coffee beans, Smoking Cigarettes and drinking Mountain Dew
04-13-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Maria Merritt (Hopkins)
How Should Social Justice Count in Treating Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis?
04-06-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Igho Ofotokun
Inflammatory Bone Disease in HIV infection: A Growing Challenge Globally
03-23-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Ibrahim Bani
The KSA Response to MERS-CoV: The Importance of Community Awareness and Preparedness
03-16-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Jim Zingeser
Bracketing the Ebola Epidemic – Guinea at the Beginning and the End
03-15-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Eva Leidman
Complex Humanitarian Emergency in Ukraine: Recent Assessments, Humanitarian Response, and Lessons Learned
03-02-2016 

Anne Williams
A behavior change intervention to improve maternal dietary diversity in rural Kenya
02-24-2016 |  Link to lecture 

Danny Haddad
Morbidity Management and Disability Prevention  (MMDP) Project in NTDs
02-03-2016 |  Link to lecture

Julie Hotchkiss
Hold Your Breath: The Detrimental Impact of Hazardous Air Pollutants on the Respiratory Health of Children in Tennessee
01-20-2016 |  Link to lecture