The 2021 Andrew B. Weiss, M.D. Lecture on Medicine & Medical Ethics "The Ethics of Health Equity: Confronting Structural Racism in Medicine and Research"

Join us for a conversation with Lauren Smith about how the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and social awakening to the impact of racism have combined to force an essential reckoning in health care and biomedical research.

Register here for the zoom link.

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Lauren Smith, MD, MPH, is the chief health equity and strategy officer for the CDC Foundation. In this newly created role, Smith brings more than 25 years working at the intersection of health care delivery and management, public policy and public health fields. Her previous leadership roles have included serving as the medical director and then interim commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the senior strategic advisor for a national innovation and improvement network focused on reducing infant mortality, the national medical director of the Medical Legal Partnership for Children and the medical director of the pediatric inpatient service at Boston Medical Center, where she was on faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. Smith’s experience in federal and state government includes roles as a policy analyst in the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as a W.T. Grant Health Policy Fellow in the office of the Massachusetts Speaker of the House.

The Andrew B. Weiss, M.D., Lecture on Medicine and Medical Ethics is an event hosted by the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences that memorializes the life and work of the late Andrew Weiss, Williams Class of 1961, an orthopedic surgeon. This lecture promotes discussion of health care, broadly conceived, including the economics of health care as well as biomedical and ethical issues.