MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
GRANVILLE H. SEWELL
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
IN
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
This lectureship was launched in 1993, with Dr. Tara O'Toole, prior to her arrival at the Department of Energy, she discussed the radioactive legacy of the cold war. Subsequent speakers have included:
Dr. Gene Likens (Acid Rain; 1994)
Dr. Rob Socolow of Princeton University (Energy; 1995)
Dr. Rita Colwell (Cholera; 1996)
Dr. Story Musgrave (Remote Global Sensing; 1997)
Dr. Tony McMichael (Environmental Sciences from Hazard to Habitat; 1998)
Dr. Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills of the University of Virginia (The Role of the Indoor Environment in the Persistent Increase in Asthma; 1999)
Dr. J. Carl Barrett who is the Director of the Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute (New Approaches to the Study of Environmental Causes of Disease; 2000)
Ms. Carol Browner, a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute and previously the Director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Protection and Public Health: Meeting the Challenge of the 21st Century, 2001)
Dr. George Woodwell of the Woods Hole Research Center (Global Climate Change; 2002)
Dr. Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology, Harvard University (Saving the Last Life, and Why it Matters; 2003)
Dr. Mario Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995, MIT (Impact of Human Activities on our Atmosphere; 2004)
Dr. Peter Singer, Professor or Bioethics, Princeton University (The Ethics of What we Eat; 2005)
Dr. Wallace Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (What Should we do about Fossil Fuel CO2; 2007)
and Dr. William E. Rees, Professor of UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (Our Ecological Footprint; 2008).