Public Health Leadership Forum: Mandating Public Health

Massachusetts Medical Society
860 Winter St.
Waltham, MA 02451

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Jointly sponsored with  Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Leadership, in cooperation with Boston University School of Public Health

All presentations are in .pdf format.

1:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks
Richard V. Aghababian, MD, FACEP

President-Elect, Massachusetts Medical Society

Louis Fazen, MD, MPH
Chair, Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Public Health

Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public Health
Presented to Philip Adamo, MD, MPH

Moderator
Harold D. Cox  
Associate Dean, Public Health Practice
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health

  
1:30 p.m.

Historical Background: The Strange Career of Compulsory Vaccination (presentation not available)
Michael Willrich, PhD
Professor of History
Brandeis University
 

Public Health Mandates
Wendy E. Parmet, JD
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and
George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University
Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
 

Break
 
The Ethics of Public Health Mandates
George J. Annas, JD, MPH
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights
Boston University School of Public Health, School of  Medicine and School of Law
 
Mandated Public Health - Perspectives from a Practicing Physician
James J. O'Connell, MD  
President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

Panel Discussion

  
5:00 p.m.Adjournment

 

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