Spring 2007 Lecture Series

Monday, Feb. 12
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Jennifer Hirsch
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University
"Love, Marriage...and ARVs? Using the anthropology of intimacy to shape global AIDS policy."
Co-sponsored with Princeton Aids Initiative (PAI)

Wednesday, Feb. 14
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm

Angus Deaton
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, Princeton University
(joint with Carlos Bozzoli and Climent Quintana-Domeque)
"Child mortality, income, and adult height."

Monday, Feb. 19
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Bruce McEwen
Visiting Research Collaborator
"Molecular (Neuro)Sociology: A Top-Down View of Diseases of Modern Life."
Paper referenced in talk: "Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators: central role of the brain"

Wednesday, Feb. 28
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm

David Weil
Professor of Economics, Brown University
"Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)

Monday, Mar. 5
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

David Barker
Physician and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southampton, UK and Professor in the Department of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, US
"The maternal origins of chronic adult disease: social and biological implications."

Wednesday, Mar. 7
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm

Mark Schlesinger
Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University, Professor, Yale Shool of Public Health, Yale University
"Experience Goods and Expectational Traps: Bounded Rationality and Consumer Behavior in Markets for Medical Care"

Thursday, Mar. 8
219 Aaaron Burr Hall
4:30pm

Joćo Biehl
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University
"Pharmaceuticalization and the Politics of Survival: Institutional Practices Shaping AIDS Treatment Rollout and Adherence in Brazil."
Co-sponsored with Princeton Aids Initiative (PAI)

Monday, Apr. 2
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Susan Reynolds Whyte
Professor at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
"Therapeutic Mobility: Accessing AIDS Therapies in Uganda."
Co-sponsored with Princeton Aids Initiative (PAI)

Wednesday, Apr. 4
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm

Till von Wachter
Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Columbia University
(joint with Dan Sullivan)
"Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data"

Wednesday, Apr. 25
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm

Norbert Schady
Senior Economist at the Development Research Group at the World Bank
Jed Friedman
Economist at the Development Research Group at the World Bank
"Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)

Friday, Apr. 27
127 Corwin Hall
4:30pm

Joseph Amon
Director of the HIV/AIDS Program at Human Rights Watch
Helen Epstein
Visiting Research Scholar at the Princeton Center for Health and Wellbeing
Sofia Gruskin
Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights and Director of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
"Is AIDS Treatment a Human Right? A Discussion about Care and Equity."
Co-sponsored with Princeton Aids Initiative (PAI)

Wednesday, May 2
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm

Mark Stabile
Professor of Economics & Rotman School of Management, Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto
"Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins"

 




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