David R. Williams, M.P.H., Ph.D., is the guest speaker for the Office of Diversity Programs’ annual Martin Luther King Celebration lecture.  Dr. Williams  is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University.  He is internationally recognized as a leading social scientist focused on social influences on health and was a key scientific advisor to the award-winning PBS film series, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

The lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Eric P. Newman Center at Washington University School of Medicine, 320 S. Euclid Av.  The event is free of charge.  To RSVP, please call the Office of Diversity Programs 314-362-6854 or email us at diversity@msnotes.wustl.edu.