This annual public health lecture series is named in honor of the historic Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, the premier training ground for African American medical professionals.
Although this historic hospital closed its doors on August 17, 1979, we can learn much from its history, presented by the very people who worked diligently to provide culturally appropriate care to the patients who so deeply trusted and loved them.
Why Health? What We Need to Think About When We Think About Health
Friday, October 10, 2025 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM
WashU Medicine
Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC)
320 S Euclid Ave,
St. Louis, MO 63110
Guest Speaker: Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is the Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the School of Public Health, the Eugene S. and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health, and Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Washington University in St. Louis. As dean of WashU’s first new school in 100 years, Galea leads the building of a world-class academic institution that works in a myriad of ways to advance solutions to pressing, real-world issues involving infectious disease; mental, global and environmental health; dissemination and implementation science; and other key areas of public health.
Galea’s scholarship lives at the intersection of social and psychiatric epidemiology, with a focus on the behavioral health consequences of trauma. His work has been principally funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and several foundations. Further, he has been engaged in more than $100 million of extramurally funded research. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Boston University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed literature and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences.
He is past chair of the Boston Board of Health, of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Photos by Louis Ingrum
