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Why the Global Health Revolution Should Start with Primary Care

Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty, and staff, followed by a conversational Q&A. Lunch is provided beginning at 12:15 p.m.

April's Buffett First Friday Lunch will feature Lisa Hirschhorn, Director of the Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care at the Robert J. Havey Institute for Global Health and Professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Professor Hirschhorn will discuss why people-centered primary health care is critical for accelerating and sustaining improvements in global health and population well-being, particularly in an era of limited resources. Drawing on work supported by Northwestern University’s Havey Institute for Global Health and other grant-funded research, she will review the evidence for primary health care (PHC) as a transformative force in health. She will also highlight the need to redesign PHC to better empower communities and individuals, and outline areas where Northwestern is already engaged—as well as opportunities for additional cross-campus collaboration to strengthen and accelerate progress.

Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.