Cities Matter: The Role of Cities in Promoting Health

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ABOUT THE EVENT

Much attention is currently focused on national policymaking, but cities and states matter too. This event, featuring a keynote by Professor Michael Nutter, the former mayor of Philadelphia, will focus on the critical role that cities can and should play in shaping policies that promote population health.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

• Michael A. Nutter (bio), former mayor of Philadelphia and inaugural David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Policy, Columbia University
• Charles Branas (bio), Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health
• Ester Fuchs (bio), Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science and is the Director of the Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
• Diana Hernández (bio), Assistant Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health
• Malo Hutson (bio), Associate Professor in Urban Planning at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
• Vincent Schiraldi (bio), Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia School of Social Work
• Rose Cuison-Villazor (bio), Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law
• Jane Waldfogel (bio), Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at Columbia School of Social Work and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics