The 2021 John Lindenbaum Memorial Lecture and the Columbia Science and Health Equity Lecture Series welcomed John A. Rich, MD, MPH
, last week for a Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Medicine Special Grand Rounds Lecture on approaches to healing the wounds of violence and racial trauma.
Rich is a professor of health management and policy at the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice within the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is a longtime leader in public health whose work focuses on serving young Black men in urban settings.
In 2006, Rich was granted a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his work. In awarding the distinction, the Foundation cited his work on designing “new models of health care that stretch across the boundaries of public health, education, social service, and justice systems to engage young men in caring for themselves and their peers.”