Stephen S. Gloyd, MD, MPH, Professor of Global Health and of Health Services, will present the 38th Annual University Faculty Lecture, "Achieving Health for All in the 21st Century: Globalizing, Growing Inequality and Creative Response" on February 6 at at 7:00 p.m. in Kane Hall. Remarkable advances in global health have been achieved over the past three decades. Nevertheless, enormous gaps in health persist worldwide. Dr. Gloyd will provide evidence and share personal stories that illustrate both the positive impact of the advances—and the pervasive forces that continue to produce growing inequality between rich and poor. He will show that achieving health for all requires addressing rights, delivering justice and ensuring equity. 

About Professor Stephen S. Gloyd
Professor Gloyd’s roots are local, but his public service has taken him all over the world. He spent four years in Mozambique with the Ministry of Health. He trained health workers in Mexico and Central America. And while completing his family practice residency at the UW, he became a leader in the local movement to expand midwifery services to underrepresented parts of Seattle and Washington State.

In 1985, he joined the UW Department of Health Services, serving as Director of the International Health program in the School of Public Health for more than two decades. Now, as Associate Chair of the UW Department of Global Health, Professor Gloyd shares his passion for serving the underserved, at home and abroad.

Professor Gloyd has been central in the development and launch of the new undergraduate minor in global health, and he is known for his easy and positive manner and his ability to inspire others to persevere.

As one colleague puts it, “Steve has a very special capacity to highlight how our work at the UW makes an important difference in the world at large.”

About the University Faculty Lecture
In conjunction with the Office of the Provost, members of the UW faculty choose one of their peers to deliver the University Faculty Lecture. This award honors faculty whose research, scholarship or art has been widely recognized by their peers and whose achievements have had a substantial impact on their profession and perhaps on society as a whole. Dr. Stephen Gloyd joins a distinguished roster of Nobel laureates, historians, artists, scientists and authors who have presented this series each year since 1976.