11th Annual Summer Public Health Research
Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health

Videoconference Agenda

MONDAY, June 20, 2005  -  Health disparities: from Civil Rights to Human Rights

Introduction

Stephanie L. Crayton (Moderator) [bio] 
Media Relations Manager, Office of Public Affairs and Marketing
UNC Health Care (website)

Panel
Hon. Melvin L. Watt [bio]
Member of Congress representing the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina; Chair, Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)

Gem P. Daus, M.A. [bio]
Director of Policy, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)

Gary R. Grant [bio]
Executive Director, Concerned Citizens of Tillery (website)

Carole Anne Heart [bio]
Executive Director, Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board (AATCHB)

Allan S. Noonan, M.D., M.P.H. [bio]
Director, Public Health Program (PHP at MSU)

Rosa Pérez Perdomo, M.D.,M.P.H.,Ph.D. [bio]
Secretary of Health, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Salud)

TUESDAY, June 21, 2005

It Takes a Whole Indian Village: Decreasing Health Disparities in Indian Country [slides]

Carole Anne Heart [bio]
Executive Director, Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board (AATCHB)

Sacoby M. Wilson, Ph.D. (Moderator)
Recent graduate, Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Epidemiology of Diabetes: Prevalence, Complications and Health Services Disparities [slides]

Rosa Pérez Perdomo, M.D.,M.P.H.,Ph.D. [bio]
Secretary of Health, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Salud)

Whitney R. Robinson, M.S.P.H. (Moderator)
Doctoral Student, Epidemiology

WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2005  -  Special session on behavioral prevention of HIV

Cosponsored by the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Preventing HIV among Women: Diffusing a Group- and Community- Level HIV Prevention Behavioral Intervention Targeting Women, I: the SISTA Project [slides]

Cynthia Prather, Ph.D. [bio] 
Behavioral Scientist

Angela D. Thrasher, M.P.H. (Moderator)
Doctoral Student, Health Behavior and Health Education

Preventing HIV among Women: Diffusing a Group- and Community- Level HIV Prevention Behavioral Intervention Targeting Women, II: RAPP [slides]

Winifred King, Ph.D. [bio] 
Research Behavioral Scientist
Science Applications Team (SAT), Capacity Building Branch
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, CDC

Angela D. Thrasher, M.P.H. (Moderator)
Doctoral Student, Health Behavior and Health Education

THURSDAY, June 23, 2005

The Health of U.S. Pacific Islander Populations: Emerging Directions

Sela Panapasa, Ph.D. [bio] 
Research Investigator, Survey Research Center Program on Social Environment & Health,
Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Theresa D. Chapple, M.P.H. (Moderator)
Graduate, Maternal and Child Health

False Promises and True Disparities: Why Healthy People 2010 Will Fail [slides]

H. Jack Geiger, M.D., M. Sci. Hyg. (Epidemiology), Sc.D. (hon) [bio]
Arthur C. Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at the City University of New York Medical School

Tausha D. Robertson, M.S. (Moderator)
Doctoral Student, Health Policy and Administration