Lectureship Events

Philip S. Brachman Memorial Lecture

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM EST
Video Conference/Zoom Only
Topic: Unveiling Bias: A Statistician's Quest for Data Equity in Health Research

Bhramar MukherjeeBhramar Mukherjee, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Public Health Data Science and Data Equity 
Anna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease)
Professor of Statistics and Data Science (Secondary)
Yale School of Public Health


Philip S. Brachman, MD, (Professor, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health) was former director of the Epidemiology Intelligence Service at CDC and a renowned educator in global health and field epidemiology. Dr. Brachman served for more than 30 years as Planning Committee Chair of the Summer Session in Epidemiology.


David Schottenfeld Lecture

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM EST
Video Conference/Zoom Only 
Topic: Three Score & Ten: Why Medicine Gets Race Wrong, the Harm It Causes, and How to Fix It

Joseph Graves

Joseph L. Graves, PhD
MacKenzie Scott Endowed Professor of Biology
Director, Genomic Research and Data Science Center for Computation and Cloud-Computing, GRADS-4C, NIH
Associate Director, Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) NSF Gen-4 ERC
Department of Biology
North Carolina A&T State University



David Schottenfeld
, MD, MS, (John G. Searle Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health) is a renowned cancer epidemiologist, receiving numerous honors and awards. Dr. Schottenfeld also served as director of the Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology from 1988–2004.


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