Keynote Speaker

Olivia Carter-Pokras, Ph.D., Public Health Analyst, Office of Minority Health, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Rockville, Maryland

Core Faculty
University of North Carolina
School of Public Health

Trude Bennett, Dr.P.H., Assistant Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dorothy C. Browne, Dr.P.H., Associate Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Lloyd J. Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Ronald Helms, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

William Kalsbeek, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 

Invited Lecturers

Delton Atkinson, M.P.H., M.S.P.H., Director, State Center for Health and Environmental Statistics, NC Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina

Ronnie Bell, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Bowman Gray Medical School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Audrey Burwell, M.S., Grants Coordinator, Office of Planning and Extramural Programs, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland

William Darity, Ph.D., Cary C. Boshammer Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Aida Giachello, Ph.D., Director, Midwest Latino Health Resource Center, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Associate Professor, Addams College of Social Work, Chicago, Illinois

Patricia Golden, M.S., Office of Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Promotion, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland

Richard Goodman, M.D., M.P.H., Editor, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Assistant Director, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Adjunct Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Robert Hahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., Epidemiologist, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

John Hatch, Dr.P.H., Professor, Department of Health Behavior/Health Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Felicia Hodge, Dr.P.H., Director, Center for American Indian Research and Education, Berkeley, California

Maya Dominguez McNeilly, Ph.D., Assistant Medical Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Steve Murdock, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Department of Rural Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Patricia O'Campo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Diane Rowley, M.D., Deputy Chief, Pregnancy and Infancy Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

Larry Shinagawa, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum; and Associate Professor of Asian-American Studies, Sonoma State University, Sonoma County, California

Paul Siegel, M.D., Medical Epidemiologist, Office of Surveillance and Analysis, Behavioral Surveillance Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

Katherine Wallman, M.S., Chief, Statistical Policy Office, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC

Linda Washington, M.S., Public Affairs Director, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland

P. Douglas Williams, M.S., Chief, State and Academic Research Staff, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland 

Advisory Board

Delton Atkinson, M.P.H., M.S.P.H., Director, State Center for Health and Environmental Statistics, North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina

Gordon DeFriese, Ph.D., Professor of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy and Administration; and Director, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Tessie Guillermo, Executive Director, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Inc., San Francisco, California

David Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Study of Latino Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Felicia Hodge, Dr.P.H., Director, Center for American Indian Research and Education, Berkeley, California

Bill Jenkins, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Milton Kotelchuck, Ph.D., M.P.H., Chairman, Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

David Williams, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist and Associate Professor of Sociology; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Minority Health Project Staff
University of North Carolina

Larry Crum, Ph.D., Project Director, Department of Biostatistics

Shelby S. Taylor, Project Secretary, Department of Maternal and Child Health

Tonya Armstrong, M.A., Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Psychology

Harlee Ballard, M.P.A., Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Maternal and Child Health

Ali Faiz, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics

Melissa Hays, B.A., Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics

Melissa Heinz, B.A., Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Maternal and Child Health

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