2007 Keeney Lecture: Robert Lawrence, The Agriculture-Public Health Connection
Date: Monday, October 22nd, 2007 
Start: 7:00 pm
Location: Ames, Iowa
Physician, environmental researcher and human rights advocate Robert Lawrence explores the linkages between health, agriculture and U.S. farm policy. His presentation focuses on the obesity epidemic, problems associated with antibiotic resistance, food security and world hunger.
Lawrence is professor of environmental health sciences and founding director of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a world leader in human rights and the environment, receiving the 2002 Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism Prize for his lifelong efforts to improve health care, human rights and the environment.
This lecture commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the 150th anniversary of Iowa State University. It was hosted by the Leopold Center with support from the ISU Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).
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Ames, Iowa 50011 |
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