Past Special Events
The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine hosts special community wide events, symposia, and conferences on occasion. These are usually big events and often open to the public. Some feature multimedia or other interactive components. Review some of these past events below.
Highlighted Events
Leaders working in health equity and justice gathered to facilitate engagement, learning, collaboration, and connection across sectors; encourage skill-building, innovation, and knowledge sharing; and promote actionable change in health equity research, practice, and policies.
This community event encouraged an open discussion surrounding the impact of slavery on the United States. By publicly acknowledging 400 years of inequality, we can promote understanding and awareness while reaffirming our commitment to a future of equality.
We invited community residents, leaders, representatives of the public, non-profit, and business sectors, and anyone concerned about poverty in the city of New Orleans and its disproportionate impact on the city’s Black community to attend this unique and thought-provoking, day-long symposium.
One hundred years in the making, the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Centennial Celebration is now a fond memory. Revisit some of the milestones that brought us to where we are today.
