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Highlights in Minority
Health
June 9th-13th, 2003
9th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute &
Videoconference on Minority Health
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
School of Public Health Objectives:
The Summer Public Health Research videoconference on Minority Health will
emphasize issues and solutions related to collecting, analyzing and
interpreting data for racial/ethnic populations, disentangling and
assessing the relationships among race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic
status; using ethnographic research to improve enumeration and data
quality; and community-academic research partnerships.
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Monday, June 9,
2003 |
| Research Towards the Elimination of
Health Disparities |
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Yvonne T. Maddox, Ph.D.
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Bethesda, MD. |
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Horensia Amaro, Ph.D. (Keynote)
Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences
Bouve College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University, Boston, MA. |
| Tuesday, June
10, 2003 |
| Conceptualization and Measurement of
Race and Ethnicity |
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Charles Rotimi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
Director of the National Human Genome Center
Howard University, Washington, DC. |
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Olivia Carter-Pokras, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology &
Preventive Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. |
| Wednesday, June
11, 2003 |
| Bringing Data to Bear on
Understanding Health Disparities |
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Anjani Chandra, Ph.D.
Demographer, National Survey of Family Growth
National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD. |
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Adaora Adimora, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. |
| Thursday, June
12, 2003 |
| Health Disparities Research with
Latinos and Native Americans |
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Antonio Estrada, Ph.D.
Professor, Mexican American Studies and Public Health
Director, Mexican American Studies and Research Center
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. |
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Michael Bird, M.S.W., M.P.H.
Executive Director, National Native
American AIDS Prevention Center
Oakland, CA. |
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Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| Health Disparities Research at
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities with Public Health Programs |
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Fran T. Close, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Maternal and Child Health & Behavioral Sciences
& Health Education
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL. |
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Otis Cosby, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Environmental and Occupational Health
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN. |
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All programs occur Daily 10:30
a.m.- 4:30
p.m. EDT via Satellite. |
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| Registered
Local Downlink Viewing
Site: |
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Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention/HRMO
Koger Stanford Building
2960 Brandywine Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724
Site facilitator:
Mardic Johnson Young,
mej8@cdc.gov
Phone: (770)
488-1714, Fax: (770)
488-1946.Please contact the site
facilitator directly for information about viewing arrangements.
CDC staff: Contact your local ENVISION
Facilitator to view the broadcast at your site.
Video tapes will be available from the HRMO, CDC Corporate
University.
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Click Here to Find a Videoconference Downlink Site Near You. |
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| Sponsors: |
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The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Program for Ethnicity,
Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO)
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP)
CDC Corporate University (CDC CU) |
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