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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

01:30pm EDT

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)

03:25pm EDT Session ends

TUESDAY, June 21, 2005

01:30pm EDT

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

  Questions and discussion (15-20 minutes)
  Break (15 minutes) 
 
03:05pm EDT

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

  Questions and discussion (15-20 minutes)
04:25pm EDT   Session ends  
 

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

 

Cosponsored by the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

01:30pm EDT

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

  Questions and discussion (15-20 minutes)
  Break (15 minutes) 
 
03:05pm EDT

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

  Questions and discussion (15-20 minutes)
04:25pm EDT   Session ends  
 

THURSDAY, June 23, 2005

01:30pm EDT

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

  Questions and discussion (15-20 minutes)
  Break (15 minutes) 
 
03:05pm EDT

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

  Questions and discussion (15-20 minutes)
04:25pm EDT   Session ends  

Links for participants:
 *  Abstracts, bibliography, speaker biographies
 *  Agenda
 *  Archived (“on-demand”) webcast of the opening session
 *  Attending the conference at UNC-CH
 *  Credits and acknowledgements
 *  Find a viewing site near you
 *  Participant evaluation

Links for site facilitators:
 *  Register to be a satellite downlink site
 *  Attendance sheet for signing-in participants
 *  Color publicity flyer
 *  Site facilitator evaluation

Other links:
 *  Previous Videoconferences in this series
 *  Back to the top

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Last updated: 06/20/05, 5/24/2006 by Vic