Coloniality, Global Health, and Reparations

For this Grand Rounds, Dr. Eugene Richardson will draw on several perspectives to discuss global inequity and historial perspectives on epidemic vulnerability and climate change.

Dr. Richardson will trace the (neo)colonial determinants of vulnerability onto climate change and epidemics. He will also discuss how public health responses — ranging from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference—play essential roles in perpetuating global inequities.

Dr. Richardson holds an MD from Cornell University Medical College and earned a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. He also completed residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center.

Previously, Dr. Richardson served as the clinical lead for Partners In Health’s Ebola response in Kono District, Sierra Leone, and continues to carry out research on the structural determinants of health disparities. He has also worked for the WHO’s Ebola riposte in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo as a clinical case management consultant.

In 2020, as a clinical case management consultant, Dr. Richardson was seconded to the Africa CDC to join their COVID-19 response. Recently, he was selected as a National Institutes of Health Climate and Health Scholar. His overall focus is on biosocial approaches to epidemic disease containment, treatment and prevention, and treatment in addition to the health effects of climate change. He is also a co-chair of the Walter and Patricia Rodney Commission on Reparations and a co-chair of the Global Environmental Change Commission on Climate Justice.

This lecture will be offered online and in-person. All registrants should RSVP. Virtual attendees will receive the livestream link after registering.

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