CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
ROOM 5414
365 5TH AVE., NY, NY

6-8PM

WINE & CHEESE

Is there anything in Obama’s plan and existing bills in Congress for social justice advocates to cheer about? What should be our response? How will proposed legislation affect the most vulnerable groups—immigrants, women of color, students, young people,
poor people, unemployed workers? What models exist for truly progressive change in health coverage and provision? And how do we get from here to there?

Speakers:

Special Guest – David Pollack, M.D.: Professor for Public Policy, Departments of Psychiatry and Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University; former Medical Director, Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Oregon Department of Human Services; Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senator Edward Kennedy (1998); community mental health advocate in the state
of Oregon for 35 years
Chair – Robert A. Padgug, Ph.D.: Professor Department of Health & Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College; advocate for health reform with West Harlem Health Forum and Physicians for a National Health Plan

Kimberly Libman, MPH: Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, chair of the Doctoral Student Council Health Issues Committee
Lynn Roberts, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Community Health Education in the Urban Public Health Program at Hunter College, CUNY
Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D.: Professor and Chair of Urban Studies, Queens College; co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program; activist in the struggle for health care reform since 1974.
Anahí Viladrich, Ph.D.: Associate Professor of Urban Public Health, Hunter College and Graduate Center; Director of the Immigration and Health Initiative

Co-Sponsors: Graduate Center Doctoral Student Council & Programs in Urban Public Health and Political Science; Brooklyn College Dept. of Health & Nutrition Sciences; Hunter College Urban Public Health Program Dept. of Community Health & Social Medicine; CCNY Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.