The Proseminar in Social Medicine: Lecture Schedule. All proseminars will be via Zoom and maybe accessed online. To access Proseminar recordings, please email lindsey_alexander@hms.harvard.edu.

  • April 28: Gene Bukhman
  • April 14: Global Health Delivery Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery Alumni Panel
  • March 24: Matt Bonds
  • March 10: Dan Palazuelos and Denise Smith
  • February 24: Joseph B. Gone, PhD, "The Urban American Indian Traditional Spirituality Program: Community Engagement and Cultural Adaptation in Indigenous Health," with discussant Byron Good, PhD, BD
  • February 17: Lindsey Alexander
  • February 10: Neal Baer with discussant Jason Silverstein
  • December 16: Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD on race, class, gender and redistributive justice, with discussant Mary Bassett, MD, MPH
  • December 2: Carole Mitnick, ScD, "Social Construction of Knowledge and Failure to Deliver Health-Care Innovation: The case of guidelines for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis," with discussant Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM
  • November 4: Scott Podolsky, MD, PhD, "Towards a 'Rational' Therapeutics: A Historical Approach to Antibiotic Production, Marketing, Regulation, Resistance, and Access," with discussant Jerry Avorn, MD
  • October 21: David Jones, MD, PhD, "Historical Perspectives on Race and Disease," with discussant Nancy Oriol, MD
  • October 14Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH "The Need for Critical Race and Feminist Theory in Health Equity," with discussant Michelle Morse, PhD
  • September 23Allan Brandt, PhD, “No Magic Bullet Reconsidered: COVID-19 and the New Age of Pandemics,” with discussant Paul Farmer, MD, PhD