2025-2026 Season

• OCTOBER, 2025 (Inaugural Meeting)

Public Health in Crisis: What it Means for America Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH Debra Houry, MD, MPH Daniel Jernigan, MD, MPH



• NOVEMBER, 2025: (📚Kimbi's Book Club📚)

Science Under Siege: What You Can Do About it Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD



• DECEMBER (Vaccine Dinner Club)

Tackling Something Hard: Persistence and Progress in HIV Vaccine Development Larry Corey, MD



• JANUARY, 2026

The Best of Times & The Worst of Times: Biomedical Research in 2025 Francis Collins, MD, PhD



• FEBRUARY, 2026 (Program moved to April)



• MARCH (Vaccine Dinner Club)

Global Cervical Cancer Elimination: An Impossible Dream ... Or Is It? Robert A. Bednarczyk, PhD



• APRIL, 2026 (📚Kimbi's Book Club📚)

Deployed: A Physician on the Front Lines of Global Public Health Kevin De Cock, MD



• MAY, 2026

To Boil the Ocean, Start by Lighting One Candle: A How-To Manual for Achieving Gender Equity in the Biomedical Workforce Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc