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Lecture series "Health in Society"

Our first public lecture series in the summer semester of 2026 will bring two members into dialogue per unit.

They will speak from their respective disciplinary perspectives on a common, socially significant topic and then engage in conversation with each other and the audience.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Helena Hansen will be the keynote speaker at the opening event on 18 March.

Keynote speaker Helena Hansen

Helena Hansen, an MD, Ph.D. psychiatrist-anthropologist, is Professor and Interim Chair of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, and Interim Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
She is an international leader in the field of social medicine, and of integration of rigorous social science into academic medicine as well as into research on social determinants of health and health equity.
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