Evolutionary Medicine - Live Webinar on June 25, 2025 8PM EST
Learn how evolutionary principles inform human health, disease, and medical practice in this interdisciplinary course on Evolutionary Medicine.
About this webinar
Evolutionary Medicine offers a fresh perspective on modern health by exploring how evolutionary biology explains disease vulnerability, chronic conditions, and health outcomes. Through the lens of natural selection, adaptation, and evolutionary trade-offs, healthcare professionals can better understand the roots of obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and reproductive health challenges as consequences of mismatches between ancient biology and today’s environment. With a focus on practical application, this course encourages the use of evolutionary reasoning in clinical care and public health strategies to enhance patient outcomes, improve communication, and support prevention efforts.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
Define key evolutionary principles such as natural selection, fitness, and evolutionary trade-offs, and explain their relevance to human biology and disease.
Analyze chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders through the lens of evolutionary mismatch and historical adaptation.
Evaluate how evolutionary perspectives explain reproductive and developmental health patterns, including parental investment, menstruation, and epigenetic influences.
Apply evolutionary frameworks to clinical scenarios and public health strategies to improve patient outcomes and manage disease vulnerability.
Instructors
Steven Malen is a pharmacist, writer, and entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He is the principal consultant at Expose Healthcare, a consulting firm that helps healthcare organizations improve their transparency and accountability. He has worked as a pharmacist for a range of retail pharmacies, and is also a published author of science fiction and investigative journalism. He is passionate about using his skills and experience to make the healthcare system more transparent and accountable, and believes that everyone deserves access to affordable, quality healthcare. Finally, Steven helps patients directly and via his clients to become healthier with the goal of taking less medications via appropriate exercise, diet and spiritual guidance.