Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
by Marion Nestle
Jun
20
2025
Weekend viewing: My Hopkins’ Graduation Address
Photo: Prof. Albert Wu
It was an enormous, overwhelming honor to be invited to give the convocation address to graduates of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
I spent a long time thinking about what I would say to graduates entering the public health workforce at a time like this.
The ceremonies took place outdoors in the university’s stadium on cold, rainy May 21.
Lots of friends and colleagues have asked me if there is a video of the speech. There is, and it has just been sent to me.
If you are at all interested, you can take a look at:
- The Press release
- A 2-minute summary of the entire event (my excerpt begins at 1:01)
- The complete, nearly 3-hour, ceremony (my convocation address begins at 39:40)
- Text of my speech prepared for the teleprompter
It was also my great honor to receive the Dean’s Medal for Public Health Leadership. That part begins at 15:20.
