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Over, Under, Around and Around: Navigating High-Stakes Medical Decisions for People with Serious Mental Illness - Sarah Russe

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Sarah J Russe, DBe, MA, HEC-C
Program Manager, Clinical Consult Service
Clinical Ethicist
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Over, Under, Around and Around:
Navigating High-Stakes Medical Decisions for People with Serious Mental Illness

This talk will explore the ethically, medically, socially, and emotionally complex calculus at play in determining appropriate care plans for people with acute medical illness and serious mental illness. We will evaluate situations that call into question the boundaries between autonomy and paternalism, and challenge ourselves to consider what we owe to patients who cannot fit neatly into the frameworks that structure our best practices.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

Only Zoom attendees are required to register
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Strategic Communication for Public Health and Medicine: Understanding Your Audience, Trust and the Attention Economy

Online - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

An essential function of both medicine and public health is communication with an array of audiences. Despite this core role, training on strategic communication, especially training that incorporates behavioral sciences, trust, audience analysis and design strategies, is rare. This one-hour session is rooted in both behavioral science and skill development with special attention to the changing landscape of trust and how to compete for attention more effectively.

Featuring:
Amelia Greiner Safi, PhD, MS
Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Public Health Practice
Cornell University

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Pathogen Genomics Symposium

Chicago - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

You are invited to attend the fifth annual Pathogen Genomics Symposium!

The Pathogen Genomics Symposium, hosted by the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health s Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, includes a day of scholarly events, including research talks, flash talks, keynote address, poster session, and reception.

Date: Monday, May 4th
Time: 8:30a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Where: Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center, 303 E. Superior St, Chicago

Featuring the Keynote Address, Dengue in the Age of Genomics, by Nathan Grubaugh, PhD, from Yale School of Public Health.

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Public Health Seminar--Designing pharmaceutical pricing policy to promote population health

Online - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

**ZOOM ONLY*

How can pricing policies for new pharmaceuticals be designed to maximise long-term population health? This seminar presents a quantitative model for identifying the population health-maximising payment for new medicines, accounting for lifecycle price dynamics, the negative health system and health impacts of high pharmaceutical expenditure and the need to incentivise a robust pipeline of future medicines. I also discuss why pharmaceutical innovation can be considered a global public good, the risks that this introduces that smaller economies may free-ride on the pull incentives provided by larger markets like the US and what this means for international pharmaceutical pricing policy design. The research provides new insights into aligning pharmaceutical pricing policy with the goal of enhancing long-run health outcomes.

Featuring:
Beth Woods, MSc, Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Health Economics
University of York

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Program in Public Health Poster Session

Chicago - 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The Northwestern Program in Public Health (PPH) cordially invites you to the PPH Poster Session.

Students from across all three masters-level programs within PPH will present their work: the Master of Public Health program will present on their community-based applied practice experience (APEx) projects, while students in the MS in Biostatistics and MS in Epidemiology programs will present their final thesis projects.

This is a celebratory and networking event at which students will showcase their projects. Refreshments will be provided and poster awards will be presented. This is a great way to learn about student work, community partner organizations, and to network with other public health professionals in the Chicago area. Feel free to invite your colleagues.

The purpose of this event is to:

CELEBRATE our students' accomplishments.
LEARN about the wide range of public health and medical research projects happening in Chicago and beyond.
NETWORK with members of the public health community at Northwestern and at community organizations across the Chicagoland area.

Community partners will be offered guest parking passes for use at the garages at the southeast corner of Huron & St. Clair and at the southeast corner of Erie & Fairbanks.

See photos from previous poster sessions here.

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Global Health Education Day

Chicago - 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Hosted by the Center for Global Health Education, Global Health Education Day is an exciting opportunity to draw together global health researchers, educators, and students. This year's event will be hosted at the Lurie Medical Research Center and feature a poster session, lunch, two keynote addresses, and a closing reception. A full agenda will be shared soon.

Date: Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Time: 11:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Where: Lurie Medical Research Center
303 E Superior St, Chicago, IL 60611

Additional event and poster submission details can be found on the website.

The Center for Global Health Education is proudly a member of the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health.

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The 5th Annual Carlos Montezuma Native Health Lecture - Thresholds: The Politics of Environmental Regulation and Exposure on the Navajo Nation - Teresa Montoya

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents in Co-Sponsorships

with

Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University

Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Northwestern University

Teresa Montoya, PhD
Din (Navajo Nation)
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago

Thresholds: The Politics of Environmental Regulation and
Exposure on the Navajo Nation

This talk examines uranium contamination and its enduring legacies on the Navajo Nation and broader Din homelands. I analyze how federal environmental standards such as Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) as well as toxicological comparison values produce uneven and often contradictory determinations of risk, exposure, and harm. Through ethnographic engagement with Din communities downstream from the 1979 Church Rock uranium mill tailings spill, I trace how these regulatory frameworks render certain forms of chronic exposure simultaneously visible and dismissible, categorizing contaminated water as both unsafe and safe depending on shifting scientific criteria and limited datasets. By interrogating the epistemological and political limits of environmental regulation, this talk contributes to discussions about how risk is defined, by whom, and the challenges of remediation for Din communities today.

This annual lecture is named in honor of Carlos Montezuma, the first Native American graduate of Northwestern University s medical school.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

Only Zoom attendees are required to register
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Consequences of the End of Roe - Diana Greene Foster

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Diana Greene Foster, PhD
Professor
University of California, San Francisco

Consequences of the End of Roe

This talk examines the landscape of abortion access in the United States following the fall of Roe v. Wade. It will explore why initial dire predictions regarding the impact of state bans on abortion care did not capture the complexities of the abortion after Roe. We will also discuss barriers faced by those who remain unable to access abortion services, particularly individuals experiencing emergency pregnancy complications. Additionally, Professor Foster will delve into the evolving field of abortion research, addressing how past studies shape our understanding of abortion access today and what has changed in the research landscape.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

Only Zoom attendees are required to register
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Public Health Seminar--Financial Decision-Making in Older Age: Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging, and Public Policy Implications

Online - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

**ZOOM ONLY**

Older adults face many critical decisions regarding financial matters which could have a profound impact upon independence and wellbeing. Poor financial decision making in older age can have far-reaching consequences for family members, caretakers, and communities. Relatedly, scam, fraud, and financial exploitation of older adults is a devastating and widespread societal problem resulting in billions of dollars lost annually.

Recent work has implicated poor financial decision making as a potential early marker of Alzheimer s Disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). Understanding impaired financial decision making in older age is therefore an important public health imperative with significant clinical and public policy implications; however, the causal factors, contextual circumstances, and assessment considerations of impaired financial decision making in older age are poorly understood.

This seminar will: (1) provide an overview of research to date on financial decision making in older age, which spans neuropsychological, neuroimaging, behavioral economics, demography, qualitative, cognitive neuroscience, and other empirical approaches; (2) discuss limits of existing approaches to assess financial decision making in older age; (3) highlight the significance of cross-cultural and other contextual factors as important assessment considerations.

This event is presented in partnership with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Medical Faculty Council.

Featuring:
Duke Han, PhD, ABPP-CN
Professor of Psychology,
Family Medicine, Neurology, and Gerontology
University of Southern California
Director, Han Research Lab
Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Fellow, National Academy of Neuropsychology
Fellow, International Neuropsychological Society

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