Course Description

Instructor: Dr. Karen Steinberg

What are we to make of constantly changing or conflicting healthcare messages? Is herd immunity an alternative to vaccines in a pandemic? Should I have a PSA or mammogram after a certain age? We’ll start with an explanation of what kind of evidence we need to accept a prevention or treatment for disease: the quality and kinds of studies we can accept. PLEASE NOTE: INSTRUCTOR REQUESTS THOSE ATTENDING IN PERSON BE MASKED.

Bio: Dr. Steinberg received her PhD in experimental pathology from Emory University and began working at the National Center for Environmental Health, CDC.  She served as Chief of the Molecular Biology Branch for most of her 33-year career at CDC.  She also served as Acting Director, Office of Women’s Health, CDC.  From 2004 until 2010 she was Senior Science Officer for the Coordinating Center for Health Promotion which was home for CDC’s activities in chronic disease, birth defects, and genomics. She has authored more than sixty peer-reviewed articles on genomics, cancer, osteoporosis, women’s health, ethics, and environmental health and wrote and produced a CD-ROM on the Genetic Basis of Cancer published by Oxford University Press.