Population Health Colloquium Series
2025-26 Colloquium Series: Business and Health
Lehigh’s College of Health (COH) has been on the cutting edge of health education and technology since its inception in 2019. Faced with the multitude of challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, College of Health leadership rallied together to explore ways students could interact with industry leaders and thinkers on current, pressing topics. In Fall 2020, the Population Health Colloquium series kicked off, with multiple lectures and panels hosted throughout the academic year engaging students and the public about navigating the circumstances of a national health crisis. From there, the series has grown to become an annual hallmark in the College, encouraging continuous growth and addressing the here and now. All events are remote and free of charge, sticking to our mission of attracting world-class talent while staying fully accessible to our community.
Join us this year as we celebrate the first class of Integrated Business and Health students in our series on The Business of Health! Register below for more details.
The first session of this academic year's colloquium series (The Business of Health) will feature Lehigh alumnus and College of Health Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) chair Jeff Burbank in conversation with Lehigh alumnus, chair of the Board of Trustees, and DAC member Vince Forlenza. The title of the session is "The Business of Health: Founding and Growing a Startup." President Helble will be introducing the speakers.
It will occur on Sept 3, 2025. All sessions are Zoom, meeting from 12:00-1:30pm EST.
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Colloquium Series Archive
Check out past Colloquia themes and inspiration:
- This year! The Business of Health (2025-26): The current series celebrates the first incoming class for the Integrated Business and Health Program, and features Lehigh University's alumni and friends who are leaders and experts in various aspects of the business of health.
- The Vital Conditions for Health and Wellbeing (2024-25): A series that marked our commitment to Community Health, and in particular, Community-Based Participatory Research
- Disability Independence (2023-24): This series addressed the founding of the University Research Center--Community-Driven Assistive Technology
- Women and Health (Fall 2022): This theme was chosen to empower women along their journey in health care and education. At this time, the COH had a majority of women students.
- Health Policy and Politics (Spring 2022): This series commemorated the founding of the Institute for Health Policy and Politics in the COH
- Health, Innovation, and Technology (Fall 2021): We celebrated the gift of an endowment for the Forlenza Chair of Health, Innovation, and Technology
- COVID-19 (Fall 2020): The College of Health opened during the pandemic, so this series focused on what we were learning in real time.
The College of Health's colloquium series commenced in the Fall semester of 2020 and has continued each academic year since.
All colloquium recordings are viewable on the college's YouTube site, accessible.