John Ruffin

Linda Burhansstipanov

Camara Jones

Olivia Carter-Pokras

• Office of Minority Health Resource Center



• Office of Management and the Budget (OMB)
      a)  Revised standards on race/ethnicity data
      b)  OMB guidance to OCR's on race/ethnicity data



• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) OPL



• Data Council inventory and report



• HHS press release on the Office for Human Research Protections

William Kalsbeek

• Articles mentioned: (more information coming)


1. Groves and Cooper (Wiley) - nonresponse issues

Elena Yu

• Responses to questions asked at the end of the session.

• Articles mentioned (additional articles):


1. Link BG, Phelan J. Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. J Health Soc Behav 1995; 38 (Extra Issue): 80-94.
2. Kaufman JS, Cooper RS. Seeking causal explanations in social epidemiology. Amer J Epidemiol 1999 150(2):113-20.
3. Diez-Roux A, Nieto J - contextual analyis Amer J Epidemiol

Richard Warnecke

Aida Giachello

Robert Fullilove

Barbara Israel