Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein to Launch "Baltimore's Big 3" Lecture Series Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore, will speak at Loyola College in Maryland on Wednesday, Nov. 29 as part of the College’s “Baltimore’s Big 3: The State of Health, Housing and Education in the City” lecture series. The event begins with a reception at 6 p.m. in the McGuire Atrium on the College’s North Charles Street campus, with a lecture and question-and-answer session to follow in McGuire Hall. As part of Loyola’s ongoing commitment to exploring and promoting justice and the College’s Year of the City initiative reaffirming Loyola’s relationship with the City of Baltimore, Loyola’s Center for Community Service and Justice, Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity and Council of Academic Deans have joined together to sponsor the series, designed to examine three of the City’s most pressing challenges. Health Commissioner since 2005, Dr. Sharfstein graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1996 and completed residency training in pediatrics at Boston Medical Center in 1999, where he co-founded a national initiative calling attention to the impact of housing conditions on children’s health. Dr. Sharfstein also completed a fellowship in general academic pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. He later spent several years on the staff of the Government Reform Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, helping to set political strategy on issues including public health, tobacco control, substance abuse, food safety and prescription drug regulation. The series will continue on Dec. 6 with a presentation on housing by David Rusk, author of Inside Game/Outside Game and Cities Without Suburbs, and conclude on March 13, 2007 with a lecture on education by Marion Orr, the Fred Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University and author of Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore. The events are free, but reservations are required. For more information or to register, please call 410-617-5700. | 
