Change Is Possible: Reflections on the History of Global Health

A conversation for the public health community and beyond.

August 20, 2026 August 20, 2026
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM EST All Day
Bill Foege at commencement

This event celebrates the book Change Is Possible: Reflections on the History of Global Health, written by the late Bill Foege alongside a group of Rollins alumni. Featuring our authors and global health practitioners that worked alongside Bill, we hope to reflect on lessons about how we can be better ancestors to those who come after us.

This occasion includes two events.

Authorship and Storytelling in Public Health:  An Introduction to Book Publishing

  • Location: CNR Rollins Auditorium, virtual option available
  • Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Presented by Robin Coleman, senior editor, Hopkins Press
  • Register here

Change is Possible: Reflections on the History of Global Health

  • Location: RRR Margaret H. Rollins Ballroom, R. Randall Rollins Building, virtual option available
  • Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
  • Moderated by Daniele Fallin and Kashef Ijaz
  • Book sales available 
  • Panelists: Alison Hoover, Rollins alumni author of Change is Possible; Keiji Fukuda, MD, former assistant director-general, WHO; Mark Rosenberg, MD, former president and CEO, Task Force for Global Health
  • Register here

We hope you'll join us for one or both of these events as we come together to celebrate a legacy of global health leadership and the power of storytelling to carry that work forward.

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Joanne Williams