Kristie Long Foley's honorary doctoral lecture

09/05

09. May 2024. 10:00

ELTE PPK (1075 Budapest, Kazinczy u. 23-27.) ground floor 4.

05/09

09. May 2024.10:00 -

ELTE PPK (1075 Budapest, Kazinczy u. 23-27.) ground floor 4.

The “doctor et professor honoris causa” title will be conferred on public health scientist Kristie Long Foley (professor at the Wake Forest University, USA) by the Senate of Eötvös Loránd University at the Pázmány Day assembly on May 10. To mark the occasion, the professor will give an English-language lecture at the ELTE Faculty of Education and Psychology (PPK).

Date of the lecture: May 9, 2024, 10:00

Venue: ELTE PPK (1075 Budapest, Kazinczy u. 23-27.)

Attendance is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

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Kristie Long Foley works at Wake Forest University, USA: she is the founder and head of the Department of Implementation Science, professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, and currently Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Integration. Her main area of interest is the practical application of healthcare and public healthcare scientific methods, strategies and knowledge, with her research in particular focusing on the connection between social differences and psycho-social interventions in the prevention, screening and treatment of cancer. In Hungary, her work has been highly influential in laying the foundation for research on smoking and for developing interventions. For the last two decades, she has maintained a close working relationship with ELTE-affiliated and other local researchers; several co-authored publications have resulted from these collaborations. Her involvement provides immense help towards the development and the grant activity of the Institute of Psychology and the academic field of health psychology and health science in general.