William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture: Ethics in America’s Epidemic: Navigating Solutions and Hope in the Opioid Crisis

The NYU School of Global Public Health and its Center for Bioethics are partnering with The Greenwall Foundation to sponsor the 2024 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture 

Beth Macy, bestselling author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, will discuss the US opioid epidemic and the ethical issues that accompany it, including how we can move forward from the crisis and rebuild affected communities. Ms. Macy will be joined in conversation by Perri Peltz, a journalist, public health advocate, and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker known for the HBO documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You, which explores the devastating effects of opioid addiction and its relationship to big pharma.

5:30-6:30 p.m.
Reception

6:30-7:45 p.m.
Moderated Conversation and Q&A

In-person registration is limited. Unable to attend in person? The conversation portion of this event will be livestreamed beginning at 6:30 p.m.

About the William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture
William C. Stubing served as President of The Greenwall Foundation for 21 years. In 2016, the Foundation established the William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture in honor of its beloved former President, who guided the Foundation to its current focus on bioethics. Previous Lectures have covered timely topics in bioethics: climate change and mental health, automation and inequity in healthcare, the public health and ethical challenges of COVID-19, the social inequities revealed by the pandemic, physician aid- in-dying, drug pricing, and genome editing.