Register for Grand Rounds with Monika Arora, PhD, MSc, MSc
September 27, 2023
12:30pm – 2pm PDT
SSB 1, Room 115/116 and Zoom
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Grand Rounds in Population and Public Health events feature some of the top figures in population and public health discussing the pressing issues of our day. Discover and learn alongside us during this special events series.
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Upcoming Events
September 27, 2023
SSB 1, room 115/116 and online
The Growing Twin Challenges of Obesity and Tobacco Use Amongst Adolescents in India
(with an introduction to the work of the Public Health Foundation of India)
with Monika Arora, PhD, MSc, MSc
Vice President (Research), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
President, NCD Alliance
Executive Director, Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY)
Lunch will be served to in-person attendees. Registration required.
Speaker Bio
Monika Arora, PhD, MSc (Public Health), MSc (Childhood Development), is a public health scientist working in the area of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention and Control and Adolescent Health. She is Vice President (Research) at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). She also serves as Executive Director of HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth), an NGO working with and for adolescents, patients and the community. She is the President of the NCD Alliance (2023-25), a Founding Governing Board member of the Healthy India Alliance, and Past and Founding Chairperson of the South-East Asia NCD Alliance (2020-23). Her areas of research include designing, implementing, and evaluating Group Randomized Trials, Behavioral Research, Mixed Methods Research, Policy Research, Implementation Science Research, and Impact Evaluation of Policies and Programs.
She has published extensively in the field of NCD Prevention and Control, and her research outcomes have successfully informed National Health Programs in India. She serves on National and International Expert Committees on NCD Prevention and Control, Tobacco Control, Ending Childhood Obesity, WHO Civil Society Working Group on NCDs and has been a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.
She has been honoured with the Best Practices Award in Global Health in 2011 by the prestigious Global Health Council, for demonstrating best practice examples in the area of preventing NCDs among youth in community settings. She has also been awarded the WHO Director General’s World No Tobacco Day Award in 2012, the Exceptional Women of Excellence 2018 Award by the Women Economic Forum (WEF) in April 2018 and the Dr. Prem Menon Outstanding Service Award in January 2018 by the World-India Diabetes Foundation (WIDF). She has recently been awarded the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine 2023 International Chapter Award for Northern Hemisphere recognizing her work in improving adolescent health in India and globally.
Panel
Moderator:
Howard Hu, MD MPH, ScD
Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Rani Kotha, JD, MPH
Senior Strategist
USC Schaeffer Center
Sol Price School of Public Policy
Michael Goran, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Population and Public Health Sciences
Dr. Robert C. Atkins Chair in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Keck School of Medicine
Co-Directory
Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute
Additional Panelist to be Announced
Past Events
March 7, 2023
Reducing the Health Care Carbon Footprint
with Jodi Sherman, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Medicine
Medical Director of Sustainability, Yale-New Haven Health System
Speaker Bio
Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health.
Sherman also serves as the Medical Director of Sustainability for Yale-New Haven Health System. Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems.
Panel
Moderator:
Rob McConnell, MD
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Najmedin Meshkati, PhD
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
Arash Motamed, MD, MBA
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (Clinician Educator)
Medical Director of Keck Hospital Main OR Anesthesia Inpatient Service
Keck School of Medicine
Bhavna Sharma, PhD
Assistant Professor of Architecture
USC School of Architecture
November 29, 2022
Decarbonizing the Healthcare Industry
as part of the Dean’s Transformative Lecture Series
with Victor Dzau, MD
Speaker Bio
Victor Dzau is President of National Academy of Medicine, Chancellor Emeritus of Duke University, and past CEO of Duke Health System. Previously, he was Professor and Chairman of Medicine at Harvard and Stanford Universities. He is an internationally acclaimed physician-scientist who made significant impact through his research, which laid the foundation for development of lifesaving drugs known as ACE inhibitors, used globally to treat hypertension and heart failure. Dr. Dzau serves as inaugural president of NAM and led its transition from the Institute of Medicine. He led important initiatives including the Global Health Risk Framework; Human Genome Editing; and the Grand Challenge in Climate Change and Health, which is aimed at reversing the effects of climate on health by mobilizing the biomedical community to drive changes through research, communication, and policy; and taking actions to decarbonize the health care sector.
Panel
Introductions:
Carol L. Folt, PhD
President
University of Southern California
Steven D. Shapiro, MD
Senior Vice President for Health Affairs
Keck School of Medicine
Moderator:
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Rob McConnell, MD
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Najmedin Meshkati, PhD
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
Bhavna Sharma, PhD
Assistant Professor of Architecture
USC School of Architecture
April 19, 2022
Conflict, Response and Health Equity Through the Lens of Ukraine
with guests of and in partnership with the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health
Speakers
On April 19, 2022, the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, in partnership with the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the USC Keck School of Medicine, hosted a conversation about the consequences of war on health and equality in Ukraine and beyond.
The discussion was moderated by USC IIGH Clinical Professor and Director of Policy Engagement Jonathan Cohen.
Featured speakers included:
Tetiana Stepurko, PhD
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Kyiv, Ukraine
Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
Medical Director Physicians for Human Rights
Michel Kazatchkine, MD
Former Executive Director Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Zaher Sahloul, MD
President and Co-founder
MedGlobal
April 13, 2022
Pandemics – How We Prepare for What’s Next
in partnership with the USC COVID-19 Pandemic Research Center
with Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd
Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Panel
Introductions:
Carolyn Meltzer, MD
Dean
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Moderator:
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
David Conti, PhD
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Frank Gilliland, PhD
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Michele Kipke, PhD
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Scholar) and Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
September 2, 2021
Emotional Contagion: in Times of COVID: From Fear to Hope
in partnership with the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health and the USC COVID-19 Pandemic Research Center
with Heidi Larson, PhD
Founder, Vaccine Confidence Project
Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Panel
Moderator:
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD
Associate Dean for Community Initiatives
Keck School of Medicine
Jeffrey Klausner, MD
Clinical Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
June 23, 2021
The Road Ahead: COVID’s Impact on L.A. County and Lessons Learned
in partnership with the USC COVID-19 Pandemic Research Center
with Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd
Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Panel
Moderator:
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Maja Mataric, PhD
Interim Vice President for Research
University of Southern California
Daniella Meeker, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Jennifer Unger, PhD
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
June 9, 2021
COVID’s Lessons for Public Health Education & Training
as part of the USC COVID-19 Pandemic Research Center’s Seminar Series
with Sandro Galea, MD, MPH
Panel
Moderator:
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Elahe Nezami, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences and Medical Education
Keck School of Medicine
Luanne Rohrbach, PhD
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Richard Watanabe, PhD
Associate Dean for Health and Population Science Programs
Keck School of Medicine
June 3, 2021
Beyond Vaccines: The Role of Repurposed Therapeutics in Preventing COVID-19 Deaths
with Janet Woodcock, MD
Acting Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
and Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH
former Medical Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Clinical Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Panel
Introductions:
Narsing Rao, MD
Interim Dean
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Moderator:
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Steven Kirsch
Entrepreneur and Founder
COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund
Neha Nanda, MD
Infectious Disease Service Chief
Keck School of Medicine
Neeraj Sood, PhD
Professor and Vice Dean for Research
USC Sol Price School of Public Policy