12th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health

This year’s Videoconference opens with a June 26th broadcast from the UNC-CH Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (SCBCH). Topic: Race-Specific Medicine, with Joseph L. Graves, Jr., Ph.D. (biosketch) (PBS interview) (New York Times interview), Pilar Ossorio, Ph.D.,J.D. (home page) (PBS interview), Morris W. Foster, Ph.D. (home page), and Stephanie L. Crayton, Moderator (biosketch).
[On demand webcast]

The June 28th session will be broadcast from the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center (link) at Morgan State University. Topic: “Tobacco Use Prevention Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities”, with Michelle Cotton-Laws (biosketch), Sharon Fryar Height, B.A. (biosketch), Adrienne Y. Witherspoon, B.A. (biosketch), and Allan S. Noonan, M.D.,M.P.H., Moderator (biosketch). The session will conclude with remarks by Helen Lettlow, Dr.P.H. (biosketch)
[On demand webcast]

Both sessions will be broadcast via Satellite and Internet.

Conference information

Monday, June 26 from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, UNC-CH

Wednesday, June 28 from the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center, Morgan State University

The 12th Annual Videoconference is presented by the UNC SPH Minority Health Project [UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO)] and the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Morgan State University (CHDS).

The Videoconference is made possible by our lead sponsor, the CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) in collaboration with the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), and by our major co-sponsors, the UNC-CH School of Public Health Dean’s Office (link) and the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Morgan State University (CHDS). Additional co-sponsors include the American College of Epidemiology (ACE), the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research (SCHSR), and the UNC-CH Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost (website).

The session on Race-Specific Medicine is co-sponsored by the UNC-CH Institute of African American Research (IAAR) and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, ELSI Center Planning Grant (link), and is presented in partnership with the Emerging Leaders in Public Health Fellowship program (ELPH), the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program (NC-HCAP), the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, and the UNC-SPH Health Disparities Certificate Program. The session on Tobacco Prevention Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is made possible through a co-sponsorship from the American Legacy Foundation (Legacy).

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