Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel: A Guide to Living a Full and Healthy Life
Bioethicist and oncologist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel pairs common sense with uncommon wisdom on what it actually takes to live well and stay healthy at Northwestern's CHF day.
Why we picked this
Emanuel is one of the most rigorous and provocative thinkers on health policy and bioethics working today — his case for living well is grounded in evidence, not aspiration, which makes it actually useful.
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is an oncologist, bioethicist, and health policy expert who served as a special adviser on health policy to the Obama White House and helped design the Affordable Care Act. He is the vice provost for global initiatives and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the most publicly engaged medical voices in America.
His work consistently bridges clinical medicine, public policy, and philosophy — he has written about end-of-life care, healthcare economics, and the ethics of medical decision-making in ways that reach well beyond professional audiences. This talk at Northwestern University Day draws on his expertise to offer a practical and evidence-based argument about what it takes to live a full and healthy life — pairing rigorous research with the kind of clear-eyed thinking that makes complex medical questions navigable.
Part of the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Northwestern University Day at Norris University Center.