Speaker: Allan M. Brandt, Ph.D., The Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University

Abstract: This lecture will trace the history of the relationship between medicine and public health over the course of the last century. The talk will center on tensions and ambivalence between approaches to health that centered on the diagnosis and treatment of individual patients by physicians and other health care providers versus approaches to preventions through changes in the environment and other social determinants of disease. The lecture will suggest that this bifurcation misrepresents essential aspects of both medicine and public health. As a result, I will propose new strategies to integrate medicine and public health moving forward.