Wednesday, August 13
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Harbor View Hotel
Edgartown, MA
Schedule
Welcome remarks
Opening remarks and panel discussion
Audience Q&A
Closing remarks
Speakers
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin
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).
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
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin
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).
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.