Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture
ABOUT FRED T. FOARD JR., MD (1889-1966)
Hallmarks of Dr. Foard’s tenure included the development and strengthening of organized public health services in Alaska, Hawaii and the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast regions. His efforts spurred major improvements in health services for Native Americans and the transfer of the Indian Health Program from the U.S. Department of the Interior to the U.S. Public Health Service.
After retiring from the Public Health Service in 1952, Dr. Foard served until 1964 as director of the Division of Epidemiology for the N.C. Board of Health. Dr. Foard received an honorary degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962.
Recent Foard Lectures
2018 (50th Anniversary)
Gina Kolata
On Thursday, April 5, 2018, at 6 p.m., Gina Kolata delivered the 50th annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture. The event is the keynote for the School’s “Going Viral” symposium on the 1918 flu pandemic, which will took place April 5-6.
Kolata’s work as a reporter at The New York Times has led her to the Pulitzer twice—for investigative reporting and for explanatory journalism. She has authored several acclaimed and bestselling books, including Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It; Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss—and the Myths and Realities of Dieting; Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead; Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for the Truth About Exercise and Health; and her newest book, Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them.
2017 (49th Annual)
Barry Popkin
Barry M. Popkin, PhD, presented the 49th Annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture, “Creating a Healthier Global Diet and Preventing Global Obesity: Our Global Food Research Programs’ Role and Impact”. Popkin is the W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He has a PhD in agricultural economics and established the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology at UNC and later established and ran the UNC Interdisciplinary Obesity Center, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
He has developed the concept of the Nutrition Transition, the study of the dynamic shifts in dietary intake and physical activity patterns and trends and obesity and other nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases. His research program focuses globally on understanding the shifts in stages of the transition and programs and policies to improve the population health linked with this transition.
2016 (48th Annual)
Mark Rampolla
On April 14, 2016, Mark Rampolla, MBA, presented the 48th Annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture. The career of Mark Rampolla, MBA, reflects a successful merger of his business acumen, love of international experiences and commitment to a sustainable and ethical global food-delivery system.
Rampolla, currently co-founder and managing partner at Powerplant Ventures LP, an investment organization interested in delivering better nutrition to people around the world, also was co-founder and chief executive officer of ZICO. He and his wife Maura Rampolla, MPH, a 1996 alumna and member of the advisory council at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, established the award-winning company to promote coconut water as a healthful alternative to more caloric sugar-sweetened beverages.
Previous Foard Lectures
2015 (47th Annual) – Marion Nestle, PhD, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University
2014 (46th Annual) – Greg Allgood, PhD, MSPH (ESE ’83), vice president of World Vision Water at World Vision and founder of the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program at Procter & Gamble
2013 (45th Annual) – Jonathan LaPook, MD, chief medical correspondent, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
2012 (44th Annual) – Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD, director of MIT AgeLab
2011 (43rd Annual) – Richard A. Vinroot Jr., MD, MPH, emergency medicine physician, Ochsner Health System, and volunteer, Doctors Without Borders
2010 (42nd Annual) – Jeanne Lambrew, PhD, director, Office of Health Reform at the US Department of Health and Human Services
2009 (41st Annual) – William McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
2008 (40th Annual) – Jonathan B. Oberlander, PhD, associate professor of Social Medicine and of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2007 (39th Annual) – John Briscoe, PhD, country director for Brazil, World Bank
2006 (38th Annual) – Olufunmilayo “Funmi” Olopade, MD, FACP, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago
2005 (37th Annual) – David L. Heymann, MD, representative of the Director General for Polio Eradication, World Health Organization
2004 (36th Annual) – Richard Feachem, KBE, FREng, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
2003 (35th Annual) – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2002 (34th Annual) – Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
2001 (33rd Annual) – Carmen Hooker Buell, secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
2000 (32nd Annual) – George A.O. Alleyne, director of the Pan American Health Organization
1999 (31st Annual) – Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1998 (30th Annual) – Jerry Linenger
1997 (29th Annual) – Michael A. Ibrahim
1996 (28th Annual) – Tom A. Bruce
1995 (27th Annual) – Fernando Trevino
1994 (26th Annual) – M. Jocelyn Elders, Surgeon General of the United States
1993 (25th Annual) – Willis P. Whichard
1992 (24th Annual) – David E. Price
1991 (23rd Annual) – Lisbeth B. Schorr
1990 (22nd Annual) – William L. Roper, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1989 (21st Annual) – Richard Remington
1988 (20th Annual) – Woodrow A. Myers, Jr
1987 (19th Annual) – Bernard D. Goldstein
1986 (18th Annual) – David P. Rall
1985 (17th Annual) – J. Michael McGinnis
1984 (16th Annual) – David Axelrod
1983 (15th Annual) – Nancy Amidei
1982 (14th Annual) – Lester Breslow
1981 (13th Annual) – Eula Bingham
1980 (12th Annual) – Jack Weinberg
1979 (11th Annual) – Jean Young
1978 (10th Annual) – Harrison Williams
1977 (9th Annual) – June J. Christmas
1976 (8th Annual) -Edmund S. Muskie
1975 (7th Annual) – Charles C. Edwards
1974 (6th Annual) – Paul G. Rogers
1973 (5th Annual) – Nancy Milio
1972 (4th Annual) – Dwight W. Allen
1971 (3rd Annual) – Paul Cornely
1970 (2nd Annual) – George A. Silver
1969 (1st Annual) – Carl Muchenheim
