John C. Cassel Distinguished Lecture

This lecture series, which has also been referred to as the John Cassel Seminar, was originally endowed by Berton and Ellen Kaplan.

1998 - Sherman A. James, Hypertension in African Americans: The Social Context of Risk
2000 - George A. Kaplan, Upstream and Downstream Approaches to Inequalities in Health
2002 - Naomar Almeida Filho, The Ethnoepidemiology of Mental Health: Insights from Latin America
2004 - Ezra Susser
2005 - Graham A. Colditz
2015 - Moyses Szklo, Epidemiology for Public Health: Are We Missing the Boat?
The 2015 John C. Cassel Distinguished Lecture, presented February 4, 2015 by Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (original webpage)
2016 - Sandro Galea, The social in context: On rational directions in quantitative population health science
2016 John Cassel Distinguished Lecture, presented April 20, 2016 by Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
2026 - Maria Glymour, Evidence Triangulation in Dementia Research
The 2026 John C. Cassel Distinguished Lecture presented 11 November 2026, 1pm-2pm ET, BCBS Auditorium, Michael Hooker Research Center 001 by Maria Glymour, Chair and Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health