Annual Lourie Memorial Lecture on health policy will feature noted public health expert
The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, the Center for
Policy Research, and the Central New York Community Foundation (CNYCF) invite
members of the public to join them at the 26th annual Herbert Lourie
Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. The lecture,
“Improving Health Safety Nets after an Economic Recession” will be delivered by
public health expert Dr. Sanjay Basu, assistant professor of medicine at the
Stanford Prevention Research Center and co-author of The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills.
The Body Economic offers
unique insight into how economic recessions in many countries have led to deteriorating
public health systems when leaders focus exclusively on improving financial
markets and balancing budgets. Using
data from around the globe, Basu and coauthor David Stuckler found that even
during downturns there are government policies that can lead to better economic
conditions and improved public health at the same time – and that countries including
Iceland, Norway, and Japan offer proof.
Basu will expand on these findings during the Lourie Lecture,
which will take place on Thursday, October 9,, from 2-3:30 pm in the
Regency Room of the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel. The lecture is free and open to the public and
limited parking will be available at the hotel garage. A reception will follow the lecture.
Basu’s research focuses on global development and human
health, including the use of econometrics and simulation models to study how
socioeconomic changes and social policy interventions affect primary diseases
among low-income populations. He received
an undergraduate degree from MIT before completing a Rhodes Scholarship at
Oxford; he received an MD and PhD in epidemiology from Yale.
The Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture is jointly sponsored by
the Maxwell School and CNYCF and is administered by the Center for Policy
Research at Maxwell. The Lecture is held in memory of Herbert Lourie, MD, a
physician and distinguished member of the national and international medical
communities in the field of neurosurgery. Lourie understood medicine as a high calling
that demands the utmost skill, intellect, compassion and character, and the
lecture series is funded by his friends, patients, colleagues, and family in
his honor. 09/15/14