Columbia Street Lecture - Partnership Between SPH and SOM
2022 COLUMBIA STREET LECTURE
The 2nd Columbia Street Lecture was held on October 13th and was given by Professor Monica R. McLemore RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN who is a tenured professor in the Child,
Family, and Population Health Department and the Interim Director for the Center
for Anti-Racism in Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career in 2019, however, continues to provide flu and COVID-19 vaccines. Her research is focused on reproductive justice. Her peer-reviewed articles, OpEds, and commentaries have been cited in five amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States and three NASEM reports. She became Editor in Chief of Health Equity in 2022.
Professor Monica R. McLemore RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN
The 2nd Columbia Street Lecture was held on October 13th and was given by Professor Monica R. McLemore RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN who is a tenured professor in the Child, Family, and Population Health Department and the Interim Director for the Center for Anti-Racism in Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career in 2019, however, continues to provide flu and COVID-19 vaccines. Her research is focused on reproductive justice. Her peer-reviewed articles, OpEds, and commentaries have been cited in five amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States and three NASEM reports. She became Editor in Chief of Health Equity in 2022.
Steven Woolf, MD, MPH
The Inaugural Columbia Street Lecture was held on April 29, 2021, and was given by Steven Woolf, MD, MPH. Dr. Woolf is the Professor C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Distinguished Chair in Population Health and Health Equity Director Emeritus and Senior Advisor at the VCU Center on Society and Health. His career has been spent at the intersection of medicine and public health.
About the Columbia Street Lecture
The purpose of the lecture is to inspire, interrogate and explore the ideas at the nexus of medicine and public health and to spur actions that move these ideas forward together.
This lecture celebrates Russ Harris, MD, MPH, who helped bring together the worlds of public health and medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill and inspired many others to do the same. Dr. Harris led the MPH/MD program at UNC for several years, sat on the United States Preventive Services Taskforce and is a senior research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
The Columbia Street Lecture is inspired by the main north/south corridor through campus. Columbia Street separates the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at UNC. For several decades, medical and public health faculty and students have crossed Columbia Street to bring the two fields together.
At UNC, we pride ourselves in the research collaborations and training that have resulted from crossing Columbia Street, yet we know there are more ways we can work to bring these two fields together.