Roxanne Dupuis will lecture on "Public Libraries in Crisis: the Challenges Facing a Beloved American Institution".

Roxanne Dupuis is a population health scientist whose research focuses on community health, the social determinants of health, and the relationship between foodways and health.

For many years, she engaged with local residents and community organizations on the Healthy Library Initiative based at the University of Pennsylvania. As part of this initiative, she worked with the Free Library of Philadelphia, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the Public Library Association to harness the power of public libraries to improve population health. These efforts were published in leading public health journals, with extensive press attention.

Roxanne received her BA in Anthropology from McGill University in Montreal, where she is originally from. She received her MSPH in Health Education and Health Communication from Johns Hopkins University and her PhD in Population Health Sciences from Harvard University. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Roxanne lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their 2-year-old son.