The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly exposed what public health workers have known for years: We, as a society, have failed to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy. In his keynote, Dr. Levy will discuss the ways in which COVID-19 has revealed society’s failures to protect public health and describe strategies to address these failures to strengthen public health. 

Learning Objectives:

Target Audience:  Public Health Professionals

Duration:  ~ 27 minutes

Continuing Education Information:  0.5 CECH for CHES

Format: Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/ Updated: 8/2020

Presenter: Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H.

Barry Levy is a physician and epidemiologist who has worked in public health for more than 40 years. He is a graduate of Tufts College, Cornell Medical College, and the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed residencies in internal medicine and preventive medicine. Dr. Levy has served as a medical epidemiologist with the CDC, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and a director of international programs and projects. For many years, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has written more than 200 papers and book chapters and has edited 20books on occupational and environmental health, climate change, social injustice, and the impacts of war and terrorism on public health. He has served as president of the American Public Health Association and received its Sedgwick Memorial Medal.