African Studies Speakers
Featured Speaker: Samuel Tefera Alemu
An Evolving Hydro-Political Order in the Horn of Africa: Major Themes, Trends and Players
Featured Speaker: Rijasoa Andriamanana Josoa
Decolonizing Education in Madagascar
Featured Speaker: Dr. Mary Getui, Visiting Scholar in Residence, Duquesne University
African Culture in the 21st Century- The Dynamics of ‘ The Alternative’
Featured Speaker: Dr. Anna Perkins, Visiting Scholar in Residence, Duquesne University
“Secessionist Maroons who have asserted sovereignty”: Accompong Maroons and the Jamaica State Today
Featured Speaker: Dr. Anna Perkins, Senior Programme Officer, Quality Assurance Unit, Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies, The University of the West Indies
The African Diaspora: Significance, Challenge, Opportunity
Featured Speakers: Jean-Michel Habineza, Executive Director at iDebate Rwanda & Anthony Wachs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University
Building Cultures of Civil Discourse
Featured Speakers: Waganesh Zeleke, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Education, Duquesne University & Yemataw Wondie Yehualashet, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar in Residence, Center for African Studies, Duquesne University
Understanding Trauma in Context and Culture
Featured Speaker: Yemataw Wondie Yehualashet, Visiting Scholar in Residence, Center for African Studies, Duquesne University
Understanding U.S. Africa Relations: An Ethiopian Perspective
Featured Speaker: Obiageli "Oby" Katryn Ezekwesili, Ph.D., Senior Economic Adviser, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative
Featured Speaker: Oyeronke Oyewumi, Professor, Stony Brook University
Featured Speakers: Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Management, Palumbo Donahue School of Business & Yang Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rangos School of Health Sciences
Exploring Africa-China Relations on Trade and Healthcare
Featured Speaker: Honorable Maria Wilson, Judge of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago
Law & Healing: Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide
Père Jacques Laval C.S.Sp., Global Public Health Speakers
Featured Speaker: Dr. Tomás Reinoso Medrano, Professor at National School of Public Health, Havana, Cuba
Cuba's National Health System: Achievements, Dissatisfactions and Challenges
Featured Speaker: Dr. Andrew Simpson, Associate Professor of History, Duquesne University
Health and the Humanities: What the Humanities and Liberal Arts Can Offer
Featured Speaker: Dr. Jim Withers, Founder, Street Medicine Institute Internal Medicine Teaching, Faculty of UPMC Mercy Hospital, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Go To The People: Street Medicine
Featured Speaker: Dr. Tomlin Paul, Dean of Research, Innovation and Quality at the University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
Tipping the Scale: Social Accountability and Global Health Equity
Featured Speaker: Dr. Lisa López Levers, Ph.D., LPCC-S, LPC, CRC, NCC, Professor Emerita, Duquesne University
Indigenous Health Care: What I learned from African Traditional Healers
Featured Speaker: Michael Yellow Bird, CMT, MSW, PhD Professor and Dean, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
A Brief History of Indigenous Health
Featured Speakers: Khlood Salman, Dr.PH, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Duquesne University; Sloane Davidson, Founder, CEO, Hello Neighbor; Ivonne Smith-Tapia, Director, JFCS Refugee and Immigrant Services
Featured Speaker: Dr. Kyle Wilby, Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University
Featured Speaker: Bernard Goldstein, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Former Dean University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Global Health and Climate Change
Featured Speaker: Marie Smith-East, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Duquesne University
Global Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Featured Speaker: Loretta Claiborne, Ph.D., Chief Inspiration Officer, Special Olympics International
I Too Have a Voice, Please Listen to Me!
Featured Speaker: Tiffany Gary-Webb, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Social Determinants of Health for African-Americans: Pre-COVID, During COVID, and Beyond
Featured Speaker: Vibhuti Arya, PharmD, MPH, Clinical Professor, St. John's University
Structural Racism and Health Equity
Featured Speaker: Shafik Dharamsi, Ph.D., Dean, College of Health Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso