Dolan Lecture Series 2024

An evening with Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco

5:30 - Pre-reception

6:00-7:30 - Lecture with Q&A

Reception immediately following in the Virginia Hospital Center atrium.

“Personal responsibility” is an ideology, championed as the solution for all our societal ills. Blame the individual’s behavior. The problem is that every personal responsibility issue eventually morphs into a public health crisis. Lead poisoning, vitamin deficiencies, TB, asthma, were all initially blamed on personal responsibility, but science made it clear that each of these were really exposures. More perniciously, teen pregnancy, smoking, and HIV were also attributed to personal responsibility. How about guns? And now, of course, the obesity epidemic falls under the same rubric. Diet and exercise, gluttony and sloth, “it’s your fault” — individuals exercise free choice as to what they put in their mouths. But what if you don’t have a choice? What if society cannot afford the health consequences of the Industrial Global Diet? What if the food has been formulated to be both toxic and addictive? “Personal responsibility” is an ideology that denies biology, and public health crises cannot be resolved one person at a time.

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