[act-ma] 1/21 “Private and Public Storytelling: How to Use Digital and Traditional Technologies for Social Change”

[Charlie Welch]

Pediatrician and TV writer NEAL BAER: “Private and Public Storytelling: 
How to Use Digital and Traditional Technologies for Social Change”
Date:
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
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Location:
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 101

Neal Baer EdM ’79, AM ’82, M ’95Presented by: Office for the Arts in 
association with the Harvard Alumni Association
Registration required. Register on the Wintersession registration page.
Admission Free: No Tickets Required; free and open to all Harvard 
affiliates and the public.
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Neal Baer EdM ’79, AM ’82, M ’95 is a pediatrician and television writer 
who combines his passion for medicine and storytelling to challenge 
audiences’ views on a spectrum of social and political topics. His 
credits include the TV series “Under the Dome,” “ER” and “Law and Order: 
Special Victims Unit,” and he is the founder of Global Media Center for 
Social Impact, which uses new media to promote health initiatives around 
the world. Baer will discuss how compelling stories have the power to 
transform popular culture and catalyze social change in such areas as 
health, immigration, racial justice, America’s prison crisis, the 
environment, LGBT/gender equality, education, reproductive health and 
rights, and more.

Prior to his work as Executive Producer for “Under the Dome,” Baer was 
Executive Producer of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” which 
received six Emmys and a Golden Globe for acting, and Executive Producer 
of the NBC hit series “ER,” where he received five Emmy nominations as a 
producer and two for writing. Baer joined the Department of Community 
Health Sciences at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health as a Research 
Scientist in 2013. He recently established The Center for Storytelling, 
Activism and Health, now at UCLA, where he is working on projects using 
new media to promote health initiatives around the world. In addition, 
he is also a Senior Fellow at USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism and a 
Lecturer in the university’s School of Arts and Sciences.

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