Title: My adventures in war and public health
Learning goals: Explain the ways in which the profession of public health has incorporated (and failed to address) health problems produced by war.
Describe the methods for and synthesize the results of a mortality study in Iraq aimed at quantifying a war dead count 8 years after the 2003 U.S. invasion.
Consider and evaluate the benefits of incorporating anti-war activism into a public health career.
Bio: Amy Hagopian is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Her academic work has focused on how the maldistribution of power and wealth undermines health. She led a study estimating the war-related mortality for Iraq in 2011 and taught for nine years a class on war and health. She’s served as chair of the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health and is now chair of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association. She received the APHA’s Sidel-Levy award for Peace in 2018.
