The College of Public Health is committed to assuring that a wide range of perspectives are available to faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends. To this end, several lectures series have been implemented:
- Since 2007, the College has hosted the Leading Voices in Public Health lecture series, a premier series of lectures that brings internationally respected
thought leaders to the community to speak on issues of key importance to the publics
welfare. The topics are purposely diverse, reflecting the broad interests and impact
of public health. Several lectures each year are focused on specific topics:
- The Evening of Health, Wellness, and the Arts Lecture is co-sponsored with the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts and the Gold Humanism Honor Society at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine;
- The Justice, Health, and Humanities Lecture is co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy and the Humanities;
- The Lamb Lecture is named in honor of John P. Lamb, Jr. the first Dean of the School of Health and the College of Public and Allied Health.
- The College periodically sponsors speakers as a part of its "Special Lecture" series--focusing on very timely topics, often related to evolving issues of significant public health importance.
- The Breakfast with the Expert lecture series is a monthly professional development program designed to offer a career development and professional networking opportunity for students, with a focus on preparing them for a rapidly changing job market.
- The College of Public Health Grand Rounds is a regular program that focuses on research advances in the college or among our colleagues It is designed to inform faculty and students and to facilitate research collaborations.
2019-2020 Lectures
Crystal Chissell
VP of Operations and Engagement, PROJECT DRAWDOWN
"Climate Solutions as Health Solutions"
Date: October 22, 2019
Christopher Reddy, PhD
Senior Scientist, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Communicating Science Outside the Ivory Tower: Oil Spills, Fishermen, and Who Knows
What"
Date: September 19, 2019
2018-2019 Lectures
Daniel Martinez Garcia, MD, MPH
Pediatric Medical Advisor, Telemedicine Coordinator
Doctors Without Borders
Founder of Everywhereschools.org
Date: March 25, 2019
The 5 Browns
The 5Browns: Digging Through the Darkness
8th Evening of Health, Wellness, and the Arts
Date: February 4, 2019
Georges C. Benjamin, MD, MACP, FACEP(E), FNAPA, Hon FRSPH, Hon FFPH
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
“Creating the Healthiest Nation: Building Healthy & Resilient Communities”
Date: October 30, 2018
Beth Macy
Author, DOPESICK: Dealers, Doctors, and The Drug Company That Addicted America
Lecture and Book Signing
Date: September 18, 2018
2017-2018 Lectures
Judith Groner, MD
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Program Director of the Academic General Pediatrics Program
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Title: E-Cigarettes and Other Newer Nicotine Delivery Products: What We Know Now
Date: April 17, 2018
Video Presentation
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Julius B. Richmond Center Visiting Lectureship-The
AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence Visiting Lectureship program is funded
by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute.
Regina Holliday
Activist and Artist
The Walking Gallery
7th Evening of Health, Wellness, and the Arts
Title: The Walking Gallery
Date: February 15, 2018
Thomas Shapiro, PhD
Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy
Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy
The Heller School for Social Policy, Brandeis University
The Justice, Health, and Humanities Lecture
Title: Toxic: Economic Inequality Meets Racial Injustice
Date: October 10, 2017
Video Presentation
David Blackley, DrPH
Epidemiologist, NIOSH-CDC
James Crum, DO
Radiologist, Private Practice
Scott Laney, PhD
Epidemiologist, NIOSH-CDC
Title: Resurgence of Black Lung Diseases in Appalachian Coal Miners
Date: September 26, 2017
Video Presentation
2016-2017 Lectures
Robert Califf, MD
Former Commissioner
US Food and Drug Administration
31st Lamb Lecture
Title: Improving Health in Rural Southeast: A Worthy Challenge
Date: April 6, 2017
Video Presentation
Michael Milligan
Performer
The Sixth Evening of Health, Wellness, and the Arts
Title:Mercy Killers with Michael Milligan
Date: February 21, 2017
Press Release
David Purkey, MPH
Commissioner of Safety and Homeland Security
Tennessee Department of Health
Title:Behind the Scenes with the Governor: The 2015 Chattanooga Terrorist Attack
Date: January 31, 2017
Video Presentation | Photos
Allen Dyer, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
George Washington University School of Medicine
Title: It's Not Over When It's Over: The Health Impact of War and Political Conflict
Date: November 10, 2016
Video Presentation
Elynn Walter, MPH
International Advocacy Expert
Lead, US Partnerships, IRD
Title: Everyone in the World Has a Right to Water But How Do We Reach Everyone?
Date: October 6, 2016
Video Presentation
2015-2016 Lectures
Norman Daniels, Ph.D.
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor and Professor of Ethics and Population Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: Is There a Global Right to Health with Better Global Governance?
Date: March 17, 2016
Video Presentation
Drew Lynch
Comedian
Runner-Up, Season 10, America's Got Talent
The 5th Evening of Health, Wellness and the Arts
Date: February 16, 2016
Press Release
Michael McGinnis, MD, MA, MPP
Senior Scholar and Executive Officer
National Academy of Medicine
Title: A Conversation on Measuring What Matters Most
Date: February 4, 2016
Video Presentation
Tom Farley, MD, MPH
CEO, The Public Good Projects
Former Commissioner of Health of Health for New York City
Title: Public Health in Mega-Cities: Lessons from New York City
Date: November 10, 2015
Video Presentation
Randall Hyer, MD, PhD, MPH
Senior Fellow for Environmental HealthSafety
Deputy Director and Co-Founder, Center for Risk Communication
Title: Breaking Bad News: Disaster Communication and the Social Net
Date: October 27, 2015
2014-2015 Lectures
Robin Spielberg
Pianist, Composer, and Recording Artist
4th Evening of Health, Wellness, and the Arts
Title: The Transformative Power of Music: The Medical Benefits of Music
An Enchanting Evening of Piano and Tales from the Bench with Robin Spielberg
Date: March 5, 2015
Press Release | Video Presentation
Madison Powers, D.Phil., JD, M.A.
Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Professor, Philosophy Department, Georgetown University
The Justice, Health and Humanities Lecture
Title: Feeding the World in 2050: Food, Fairness, and Global Markets
Date: February 12, 2015
Video Presentation
Jim O'Hara, M.A.
Director of Health Promotion Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Title: Federalism in Nutrition Policy: Making State and National Policies Work Together
Date: October 23, 2014
Video Presentation
Jonathan Wolff, MPhil
Dean of Arts and Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, University College London
The Justice, Health, and the Humanities Lecture
Title: What's Wrong with Health Inequality and What Can Be Done About It?
Date: March 27, 2014
Video Presentation
John Hoffman
Founder and CEO of The Public Good Projects
3rd Evening of Health, Wellness and the Arts
Title: Complex Emotions/Complex Science: 25 Years of Lessons from Communicating AIDS, Addiction,
Alzheimer's and Obesity to the American People
Date: October 24, 2013
Video Presentation
2012 - 2013 Lectures
Commissioner John Dreyzehner
Tennessee Department of Health
Title: View from the Epicenter of an Evolving Public Health Crisis: Lessons Learned from
the Multistate Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
Date: April 25, 2013
Video Presentation
Dr. Reed V. Tuckson
Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections; Former Executive Vice President and
Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group
30th Lamb Lecture
Title: The Imperative for the Integration of Population Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
and Clinical Care Delivery
Date: April 11, 2013
Video Presentation
Dr. Roberta B. Ness
Dean, School of Public Health, M. David Low Chair in Public Health, University of
Texas School of Public Health
Title: Reimagining Innovation: Caution's Erosion of the Modern Research University
Date: March 28, 2013
Video Presentation
Dr. Robert S. Lawrence
Founding Director, The Center for a Livable Future; Professor in Environmental Health
Sciences, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: Rethinking Water: The High Meat American Diet is Draining Our Aquifers
Date: February 21, 2013
Video Presentation
Dr. Ian Lapp
Associate Dean for Strategic Educational Initiatives, Harvard School of Public Health
Title: Disruptive Innovation in Public Health Education: Should We Be Spooked by MOOCs?
Date: November 8, 2012
Video Presentation
2011 - 2012 Lectures
Panel of Experts on Food
Title: Rethinking Food
Date: April 5, 2012
Video Presentation
Current and Former Tennessee Commissioner(s) of Health
Title: Commissioners' Roundtable
Date: March 8, 2012
Video Presentation
Julio Frenk
Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
Title: Health Professionals for the 21st Century: Transforming Education for an Interdependent
World
Date:February 7, 2012
Video Presentation
Kevin Spencer
Founder, Healing of Magic
Title: 2nd Annual Evening of Health, Wellness, and the Arts
Date: January 26, 2012
Part 1 - Freeman Owle, Cherokee Elder, Historian, and Storyteller
Part 2 - Kevin Spencer and the "Healing of Magic"
Stan Brock
Founder, Remote Area Medical
29th Lamb Lecture
Title: Wapishana to Wise: Lessons Learned from 500,000 Patients, 28th Lamb Lecture - 2011
Date: November 17, 2011
Video Presentation
Paul Brooks
Executive Director, Project HOPE United Kingdom
Title: The End of Disempowerment and Dependency: Rethinking the Path for AIDS Orphans in
Africa.
Date:October 6, 2011
Video Presentation
2010 - 2011 Lectures
Greg Diette, M.D., MHS
Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Research, Division of Pulmonary and Critical
Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pfizer Visiting Professor
in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Title: The Mouse, the House, and the Hamburger: Making Sense of the Asthma Epidemic
Date: March 3, 2011
Video Link
Ambassador Eric Goosby
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator,
U.S. Department of State
Title: A Global Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS
Date: February 17, 2011
Video Link
An Evening of Health, Wellness, and the Arts
Part 1: Dispatches from the Other Kingdom: The Cancer Journey
An Oral History Theatre Piece Conceived and Directed by Dr. Joseph Sobol with members of ETSU storytelling program
Part 2: My Brain Tumor: A Mind Expanding Comedy
Written and Performed by California-based actor David Nathan Schwartz
Date: January 27, 2011
Carlos Castillo-Chavez Ph.D.
Regents Professor
Arizona State University
Title: Public Health Policy and National Security: Life in the times of Emergent and Re-Emergent
Diseases
Date: November 16, 2010
Video Link
Scott Wallace, J.D., MBA
Visiting Professor, Darden School of Business
University of Virginia
Title: Improving Value in Health Care: Capabilities, Chronic Health, and Health Strategy
Date: October 5, 2010
Video Link
2009 - 2010 Lectures
William Kenneth Big Kenny Alphin
Social activist, philanthropist, and part of the Grammy-nominated Country duo Big
& Rich.
Title:Personal Responsibility and Social Action: Sudan, Haiti and Appalachia
Date: March 18, 2010
Video Link
Wanda K. Jones, DrPH
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, United States Department of Health
and Human Services
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Womens Health) and Director of the HHS
Office on Womens Health
Title: A Gendered Approach to Health: The Separate but Intermingled Challenges of Men and
Women.
Date: February 4, 2010
Video Link
Linda M. Distlerath, PhD, JD
Senior Vice President, APCO Worldwide Global Executive Director,
The Partnership for an HIV-Free Generation Former Vice President of Global Health
Policy, Merck & Co., Inc
Title: The Partnership for an HIV-Free Generation: A New Look at HIV Prevention in sub-Saharan
Africa.
Date: November 30, 2009
Video Link
Rear Admiral David Rutstein, MD
Assistant U. S. Surgeon General,
Director of the Office of Force Readiness and Deployment,
Title:Hurricanes, Hot Zones, and H1N1: Are We Prepared for Them All?
Date: October 6, 2009
Video Link
2008 - 2009 Lectures
David A. Kessler, MD, J.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics - University of California,
San Francisco
Former Dean, School of Medicine, and Vice Chancellor of Medical Affairs, UCSF
Former Dean, Yale School of Medicine
Former Commissioner United States Food and Drug Administration
Title: The End of Overeating: Controlling America's Insatiable Appetite
Date:April 16, 2009
Part 1
Part 2
The Honorable Al Gore, Jr
45th Vice President of the United States
2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Chairman, Generation Investment Management
Chairman, Current TV
Author An Inconvenient Truth and Earth in the Balance
28th Lamb Lecture
Title: Health Threats and the Climate Crisis
Date:March 26, 2009
Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH
Director of the RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
Title: Disparities and Health: What is the Problem and What Can We Do?
Date:March 5, 2009
Video Link
Michael A Friedman, MD
President and CEO, City of Hope
Title: Thinking About the Unthinkable: Planning for a Nuclear Event.
Date: February 19, 2009
Video Link
Dr. David R. Williams
Director, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Commission to Build a Healthier America
Title: A Special Lecture and Community Meeting, "Building a Healthier America"
Date:January 20, 2009
Video Links: Part One | Part Two
James W. Curran, MD, M.P.H
Dean and Professor of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health - Emory University
Title: Lessons from the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic
Date:December 4, 2008
Gail Wilensky, PH.D.
Senior Fellow, Project HOPE
Commissioner, World Health Organization on the Social Determination of Health
Title: What the Election Will Mean for Healthcare Reform
Date:November 20, 2008
2007 - 2008 Lectures
The Honorable David Satcher, MD, Ph.D.
The 16th Surgeon General
27th Lamb Lecture
Title: Major Challenges Facing the Health System in the United States - A Surgeon General's
Perspective
Date:April 10, 2008
Video Link
William J. Martin II, MD
Associate Director of Translational Biomedicine - National Institute of Health
Title:The Impact of Indoor Air on Human Health in the Developing World
Date:February 20, 2008
Video Link
Harrison Spencer, MD, M.P.H., DTM&H
President & CEO of the Association of School of Public Health
Title: Schools of Public Health: A Growth Industry with New Paradigms
Date:January 24, 2008
Video Link
Student Interview
Linda Distlerath, Ph.D., J.D.
Senior Vice President APCO Worldwide
Former Vice President for Global Health Policy, Merck & Co., Inc
Title: In Recognition of World AIDS Day
Date: December 4, 2007
Susan R. Cooper, M.S.N., R.N.
Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Health
Title: A View From The Commissioner's Chair
Date: November 15, 2007
The Honorable William H. Frist, MD
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
26th Lamb Lecture
Title: Health Diplomacy: Using Medicine as a Currency for Peace
Date: October 18, 2007
Nathan Stinson, Ph.D., MD, M.P.H.
President, Center for Multicultural Health
Pfizer Visiting Professor in Health Literacy and Clear Health Communication.
Title - Health Literacy: What You Don't Know Will Hurt You
Date September 20, 2007
Lecture Video
Student Interview
2006 - 2007 Lectures
Richard H. Carmona, MD, M.P.H., FACS
17th Surgeon General of The United States
East Tennessee State University
Leading Voices in Public Health Lecture
Title - Prevention, Plagues, Preparedness and Politics: The Life of the Surgeon General
Time & Location March 19, 2007
Video Link
Renslow Sherer, MD
Director, HIV/TB.STI Project HOPE
Leading Voices in Public Health Lecture
Title - An Overview of Global AIDS Pandemic: Effective Interventions in China and Sub-Saharan
Africa
Time & Location February 15, 2007
Special Lectures
2017-2018 Lectures
James Willis, PhD, MPA, BA
Peace Corps Volunteer
Special Lecture
Title: A Personally Relevant Description of Peace Corps Service
Date: September 20, 2017
Video Presentation
2016-2017 Lectures
Michael Meit, MA, MPH
Program Area Director, Public Health Research Department
Co-Director, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
NORC at the University of Chicago
Special Lecture
Title: Leveraging Community Assets to Improve Rural Health and Equity
Date: April 13, 2017
Video Presentation
Meredith Potts
Executive Director and Founder
FIRE - Flagstaff International Relief Effort
Special Lecture
Title: Mongolia, Hepatitis, and FIRE - Flagstaff International Relief Effort
Date: February 28, 2017
Video Presentation
Michael Gillenwater, MSEH
Branch Chief-Training Branch, Resource Management and Business Administration (RMBA)
Grants Program Directorate (GPD), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Department of Homeland Security
Special Lecture
Title: A Career in Environmental/Public Health and Homeland Security:
From Johnson City, TN to Barrow AK to the White House and Capitol Hill
Date: February 9, 2017
Video Presentation
2015-2016 Lectures
Bob Morrow, MD, MPH, FACPM
Associate Professor (Adjunct) Pediatrics, Global Health Track Mentor
International Medicine Programs, The George Washington University School of Medicine
and Health Sciences
Special Lecture
Title: Challenges of Health in Bhutan: Stomach Cancer in a Culturally Unique, High Incidence
Region
Date: April 21, 2016
Video Presentation
David Blackley, DrPH
Research Epidemiologist, Surveillance Branch, Respiratory Health Division,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Special Lecture
Title: Ebola in Liberia: Responding to an Evolving Epidemic
Date: April 4, 2016
Jay Mehta, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Medicine Fellowship Director
Quillen College of Medicine
Special Lecture
Title: TB: Lessons from Epidemiological Change
Date: March 1, 2016
Video Presentation
Melanie Boeckmann, DrPH
University of Bremen, Artec Sustainability Research Center,
Research Fellow, Gender and Climate Change
Special Lecture
Title: Exploring the health context: evidence, ethics, and social aspects of climate change
adaptation
Date: November 16, 2015
2014-2015 Lectures
Sarah Junkin Woodard
Jubilee House Community Founder
Center for Development in Central America
Special Lecture
Title: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Working to Reduce Poverty in Nicaragua
Date: April 6, 2015
David Kirschke, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Northeast Tennessee Regional Health Department
Special Lecture
Title: Ebola: Implications for Public Health
Date: November 20, 2014
Video Presentation
Edward J. Kelly, JD
University Counsel, East Tennessee State University
Special Lecture
Title: Quarantine Law and the Ebola Crisis
Date: November 17, 2014
Video Presentation
2013-2014 Lectures
Jenny Dyer, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Hope through Healing Hands
Special Lecture
Title: Saving Mother and Child: Why Planning Families is Critical in Developing Nations
Date: April 15, 2014
Video Presentation
Kyle Colvett, M.D.
Medical Director for Oncology Services, Mountain States Health Alliance
Special Lecture
Title: Radiation Emergencies: Implications for Public Health
Date: November 21, 2013
Presentation Slides (PDF)
Captain John Sanders
Commanding Officer of the Naval Medical Research Center
Special Lecture
Title: Bioterrorism: Implications for Public Health
Date: October 31, 2013
Presentation slides available upon request.
The Current Status of the Epidemiologic Transition
(Lecture at the Quillen College of Medicine)
Dr. Steven Booth-Butterfield
President, Healthy Influence, LLC
Special Lecture
Title: Persuasion Opportunity for Public Health or Getting Your Way with Words
Date: April 12, 2013
Dr. Konglai Zhang
Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology and Biostatistics - Peking Union Medical College
Former President - Global Chinese AIDS Network
Special Lecture
Title: Update on AIDS in China
Date: March 19, 2013
Presentation Slides (PDF)
Selected Lectures by the Dean
Randy Wykoff, MD, M.P.H. & TM
Dean
College of Public Health
East Tennessee State University
Title: Your World and Your Role in it" for the Survive and Thrive: Roadmap for New County
Health Officials
Date: August 5, 2010
Video Link
Title: The Greatest Challenge in Global Health
Date: November 13, 2006
Link
Video Link
Title: Leading Change in Health: Lessons from America’s “Poorest State"
Date: September 14, 2016
Event: IDEAcademy
Video Link
