About this Event
Where You Stand Matters: Global Health, Rural Realities, and Social Responsibility
Where one stands—geographically, socially, and institutionally—profoundly shapes health outcomes and responsibilities in care delivery. This talk explores the intersections of global health and rural realities, highlighting how place-based inequities demand contextually grounded, community-engaged approaches. It argues for a renewed model of social responsibility in academic medicine that aligns training, research, and partnerships with the needs of underserved communities locally and globally.
Shailendra (Shailey) Prasad, MD MPH FAAFP is the Carlson Chair of Global Health and the Executive Director of the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility at the University of Minnesota, Professor and Vice-Chair of Education at the Dept of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, and a Fellow at the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He is also an honorary visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, at Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia, and at Institut Pertanian Bogor University, Indonesia. He is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences. He has been inducted into the Academy of Excellence in the Scholarship of Education at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Prasad was the co-lead of the CDC funded National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC RIM) and the NIH/Fogarty funded Northern Pacific Global Health consortium.
Dr. Prasad has worked in underserved areas including rural areas for more than 3 decades as a clinician, has conducted health services research and has been engaged in education across disciplines. He has been part of the Rural Health Research Center at the University of Minnesota. He chairs the steering committees of the Advocacy for Global Health Partnerships and is a founding member of the Global Engagement Network for Primary Health Care (GEN-PHC). He has also been involved in academic department strengthening and mentorship training across various universities.
Dr. Prasad’s approach to work has been in recognizing core missions of institutions and leveraging partnerships to achieve goals. In this he pushes interdisciplinary and intersectoral work with specific emphasis on leveraging individual disciplinary knowledge to collaboratively address complex questions including in Primary Care, One Health, Global Health, and Climate Change and Health.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
555 Clark Street, Room B01, 555 Clark Street, Evanston, United States
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