2023

Rima Afifi, PhD
Professor of Community and Behavioral Health, Director of the Prevention Research Center for Rural Health
“Narrative Change and Relationship Building: Why Love Matters in Achieving Social Justice”
Note: Lecture was rescheduled from fall 2023 to spring 2024

2022

Joe Cavanaugh, PhD
Professor and Head of Biostatistics
“Reassessing Health Sciences Research: Moving Beyond p-Values and Statistical Significance”

2021

Anne Helene Skinstad, PhD, PsyD
Professor of Community and Behavioral Health, Director of the Native Center for Behavioral Health
“Bridging Nations, Overcoming barriers: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge in the Public Health Landscape”

2020

Fred Gerr, MD
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health
“Meat Packing Plant Workers: A Case Study of a Precarious Workforce”

2019

George Wehby, PhD
Professor of Health Management and Policy and Doctoral Program Director
“Poverty, Child Health, and the Minimum Wage”

2018

Christopher Coffey, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics, Director of the Clinical Trials Statistical and Data Management Center
“We Built This Network: How NeuroNEXT Increases Innovative Design in Academic Trials”

2017

Marcia Ward, PhD
Professor and Interim Head, Department of Health Management and Policy
“Telehealth in the Rural Emergency Department: Using Mixed Methods to Explore Benefits”

2016

Edith Parker, MPH, DrPh
Professor and Head, Department of Community and Behavioral Health
“A Change for the Better: Engaging with Communities to Improve Health”

2015

Keith J. Mueller, M.S., Ph.D.
Gerhard Hartman Professor, College of Public Health
Head, Health Management and Policy
Director of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
“Health Services Research Meets Policy and Practice to Benefit Rural People”

2014

Kathryn Chaloner, Ph.D.
Professor, College of Public Health
Head, Biostatistics
“Bayesian Statistics: What It Is and Why It Matters to Public Health”

2013

Peter S. Thorne, M.S., Ph.D.
Professor, Colleges of Public Health and Engineering
Head, Occupational and Environmental Health
Director, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
“Protecting Respiratory Health in a Changing Climate:  David, Meet Goliath.”

2012

James A. Merchant, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Professor, Colleges of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing
Founding Dean, UI College of Public Health
“Advocating for Rural Health: Community-based Research and Policy”

2011

James Torner, M.S, Ph.D., F.A.C.E., F.A.H.A.
Professor, Epidemiology, Neurosurgery, and Surgery
Head, Epidemiology
Senior Associate Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
“Acquired Brain Injury: Prevention, Outcomes, and Challenges”

2010

Charles Lynch, M.D., M.S., Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
Medical Director and Principal Investigator, State Health Registry of Iowa
“The Statewide Cancer Registry as an Academic Resource”

2009

Gregory C. Gray, M.D., M.P.H., F.I.D.S.A.
Professor, Epidemiology and International Programs
“Zoonotic Infections: Their Importance and Neglect”

2008

William R. Clarke, Ph.D.
Professor, Biostatistics
“Clinical Trials: Every Biostatistician Should Do One”

2007

Elizabeth Chrischilles, Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
“The Quest for Rational Therapeutics”

2006

Corinne Peek-Asa, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health
“Traumatic Injury: Reducing the Global Burden”

2005

Fredric D. Wolinsky, Ph.D.
Professor and John W. Colloton Chair, Health Management and Policy
“The Best Care Possible: The Role of Health Services Research in Improving Public Health”

2004

Linda G. Snetselaar, R.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology; Interim Head, Community and Behavioral Health
“Obesity: The Way We Eat Now”

2003

Peter Nathan, Ph.D.
Professor, Community and Behavioral Health; University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology
“Binge Drinking at Iowa: Past, Present, and Future”

2002

Samuel Levey, Ph.D.
Gerhard Hartman Professor, Health Management and Policy
“Public and Personal Health Services: Prospects for a New Partnership”

2001

Robert B. Wallace, M.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
“Harm Reduction and the Safer Cigarette: Public Health Meets Community Values”