The Dr. William ‘Bill’ Jenkins Health Equity Lecture

The Dr. William (Bill) Jenkins Health Equity Lecture honors Bill Jenkins PhD, MPH, MS (1945 – 2019) and recognizes his outstanding legacy of innovative public health action, dedication to the elimination of health disparities, and efforts to promote the highest ethical standards in public health practice during his CDC tenure and in academia.

• 2022 - Dr. Helene Gayle, Advancing Health Equity through Policy, Programs, and Economic Development. June 23, 2022, from 10:00 AM until 11:30 AM (includes webinar registration link)
  Dr. Gayle has been president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation’s oldest and largest community foundations, since October 2017. Under her leadership, the Trust adopted a new strategic focus on closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap in the Chicago region. At the end of June 2022, Dr. Gayle will leave the Trust to become the 11th president of Spelman College.
   
• 2021 - Dr. F. DuBois Bowman, "Public Health Leadership in Trying Times". Presented June 7, 2021 (originally scheduled for June 2, 2020 but rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Web page courtesy of the Internet Archive. Video recording (120 min).
  Dr. F. DuBois Bowman is a distinguished researcher whose scholarship focuses on mental health and neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression. He is Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a tenured professor of biostatistics.