Live Satellite Broadcast!

Healthy People 2010: Will our communities meet the goal?

Join us—via satellite and the Internet--in a live, “Lehrer NewsHour”-style discussion

on an issue that affects all of us: Racial and ethnic disparities in health.

“Eliminating Health Disparities,” session moderated by

Harvard Law Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., JD

Sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, DHHS

Thursday, Jan. 27^th from 10:30 am – Noon (ET)

How to link:

Satellite broadcast: Satellite time has been reserved daily between 7:45 am and 5:30 pm (ET). Coordinates: C Band; Galaxy, 7; Transponder, 2; Downlink Frequency, 3740; Audio, 6.2 and 6.8; Polarity, Vertical.

Web cast: A live feed of this session will be available from the National Institutes of Health Videocasting Web site at: http://videocast.nih.gov. (Requires RealPlayer viewer G2 version or higher.)

Post-conference playback: Sessions will also be available on the Internet for on-demand playback once the conference is over: http://health.gov/partnerships.

The session will focus on “Challenges and Opportunities for Eliminating Disparities in Health.” Panelists include: H. Jack Geiger, MD, ScD, Arthur C. Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine, City University of New York Medical School; Vanessa N. Gamble, MD, PhD, Vice President for Community and Minority Programs, Association of American Medical Colleges; Robert W. Jensen, PhD, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin; Irene Y. Hirano, MPA, Executive Director and President, Japanese American National Museum; Bonnie Erbe, JD, journalist, lawyer, and host of Public Television’s To the Contrary; Theda J. McPheron-Keel, RN, CRRN, MA, MS, president, Wind Hollow Foundation; and Anita Perez Ferguson, MA, author and former president of the National Women’s Political Caucus.