A Conversation with John Green: Everything Is Tuberculosis
When: Wednesday, February 4 | 4:00 PM | Where: DeBlois Auditorium, Medical Education Building
Join an engaging conversation with award-winning author John Green about his recent book: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. From the author of best-selling books like The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis traces the journey of Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient in Sierra Leone, woven together with the scientific and social histories of how this disease has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of this curable disease. In the years since meeting Henry, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. Green serves on the Board of Trustees for global health nonprofit Partners in Health (PIH) and, in partnership with PIH and the Nerdfighter community around Vlogbrothers video, has raised over $30 million dollars to tackle maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. In 2023, Green spoke at the United Nations calling for the eradication of tuberculosis cases in the next decade.
Everything Is Tuberculosis was selected as this year’s selection for the MD Common Book Program, a partnership between the Tufts University School of Medicine and Tisch College, for all incoming medical students. Learn more about John Green.
This event is hosted by the Dr. Maurice S. Segal Lecture Series and Tisch College’s Solomont Speaker Series with additional support from the Tufts Center for Global Public Health and the TUSM Global Health Faculty Council.
Registration is required for in-person and virtual attendance.
Livestream registration: https://forms.gle/viGDENKXP5s6rqYb8
In-person registration: https://rsvp.tufts.edu/y4ykaD