"Person Place Thing" with Dr. Charles Branas - A Live Recording of Randy Cohen's Acclaimed Podcast
Tuesday, March 5
| Taping and Reception from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Club
630 West 168th Street, 4th Floor
New York City
Charles Branas, PhD, chair of the Epidemiology department at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and an expert on gun violence, will be the featured guest for the acclaimed podcast Person Place Thing. Host Randy Cohen, an Emmy Award-winning writer and former New York Times columnist, will interview Dr. Branas in front of a live audience about one person, one place, and one thing that have influenced his life and work. A reception will follow the program, which includes a live performance by fiddlers Lily Henley and Duncan Wickel.
The event is free of charge and open to the public.
Charles Branas, PhD, Chair and Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor,
Department of Epidemiology
, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Charles Branas has conducted research that extends from urban and rural areas in the U.S. to communities across the globe, incorporating place-based interventions and human geography. His pioneering work on geographic access to medical care has changed the healthcare landscape in the US and other countries for many conditions: trauma, cancer, stroke, etc. His research on the geography and factors underpinning gun violence has been cited by landmark Supreme Court decisions, Congress, and the NIH Director. Dr. Branas has also led large-scale scientific work to transform thousands of vacant lots, abandoned buildings and other blighted spaces in improving the health and safety of entire communities.
Randy Cohen
, Creator and Host
, Person Place Thing
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, "Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything," was published by Chronicle.