Homer G. Phillips health lecture at WUSM
The Annie Malone Children and Family Service Center will be honored Oct. 19 at the 12th annual Homer G. Phillips Public Health Lecture Series at the Washington University School of Medicine.
Guest speaker for the event is Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., associate dean and professor of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Prothrow-Stith is a nationally-recognized leader in violence prevention as a public health issue through her work as a physician in inner-city Boston, creating a social movement to prevent violence impacting the nation.
As the first female commissioner of pubic health in Massachusetts in 1987, she established the first office of violence prevention and expanded prevention programs for HIV/AIDS, drug treatment and rehabilitation.
She authored or co-authored more than 80 publications on medical or public health issues, and continues to develop programs and partnerships with community-based programs locally, nationally and internationally.
The program is sponsored by the Office of Diversity Programs at the Washington University School of Medicine.
The lecture and dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in the great rooms at the Eric P. Newman Education Center, 320 South Euclid Ave. in St. Louis. Free/validated parking is available. To RSVP, call 314-362-6854.