Wednesday, August 13
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Harbor View Hotel
Edgartown, MA
Schedule
11:30 a.m.
Welcome remarks
Reggie Binford, BSBA ’03, BS ’03
11:35 a.m.
Opening remarks and panel discussion
Moderated by Chancellor Andrew D. Martin
12:10 p.m.
Audience Q&A
12:30 p.m.
Closing remarks
Speakers
Moderator
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin
Panelist
Salma Abdalla
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Global Health Futures Innovation Research Network, School of Public Health
Salma Abdalla, a physician by training, studies how social, commercial, and economic policies shape population health, and how data can be used to inform decision-making to improve health outcomes, with a focus on noncommunicable diseases. She also studies the effects of trauma on population mental health.Read more
She has published over 90 scientific journal articles, co-authored eight reports and policy briefs, and co-authored nine book chapters. Her research has been funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Department of Justice, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Rockefeller Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Panelist
Dwight A. McBride
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Global Health Futures Innovation Research Network, School of Public Health
ChancellorDwight A. McBride is a leading scholar of race and literary studies.McBride earned a bachelor’s degree in English, with a concentrationin African American studies, from Princeton University, and amaster’s degree and PhD in English from the University of California,Los Angeles.Read more
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022,McBride has written numerous books and edited volumes exploringrace, Black studies, sexuality, and identity politics including JamesBaldwin Now; Impossible Witnesses: Truth Abolitionism, and SlaveTestimony; Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and BisexualAfrican American Fiction; and Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch:Essays on Race and Sexuality. He is a two-time Lambda LiteraryAward winner and in 2003, was awarded the Monette/HorowitzTrust Achievement Award for research combating homophobia.
He was previously president and university professor at The NewSchool, and served as provost and executive vice president foracademic affairs at Emory University.