The Agriculture-Public Health Connection

Robert Lawrence, M.D., is the founding director of the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He will speak about the obesity epidemic, the problems associated with antibiotic resistance, the problems of food security and the contribution of industrial agriculture to global climate change. Lawrence received the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 2002 for his lifelong efforts to improve health care, human rights and the environment. This is the Dennis Keeney Distinguished Lecture, which honors the Leopold Center's first director, and is part of the Center's 20th anniversary. Also part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Celebration.