11/04/2024
By Urmitapa Dutta
Confronting Empire, Forging Transnational Justice
"Settler Colonialism and Health in Palestine"
Virtual and free and open to the public)
Danya Qato, Pharm. D., Ph.D., MPH
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Monday November 18, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST
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Abstract: In this talk, Danya Qato will revisit her 2020 piece entitled, "Public Health and the Promise of Palestine" published in the Journal of Palestine Studies. She will (re)introduce the audience to her argument that settler colonialism is a fundamental cause disabling the realization of health and well-being for the Palestinian people, and emphasize the enduring role racism, capitalism, and imperialism, play in shaping this process.
Speaker Bio: Danya Mazen Qato is associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with appointments in the School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Qato is an epidemiologist, health services researcher and pharmacist, who studies equity in access to quality healthcare and the differential and unintended impacts of federal, state, and global policies on adverse health outcomes and high-risk medication use, with particular attention paid to psychotropic agents. Her global health work also examines how settler colonialism shapes public health; and how epidemiologic methods can either elucidate or elide this relationship.
Sponsored by Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Fellowship for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell and College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.