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23rd Annual Minority Health Conference

Race, Class and Environment:
The State of Minority Health

February 16, 2001
The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center, Chapel Hill, NC

With William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecturer Richard Moore
Co-Founder of the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice and the Southwest Organizing Project, and founder and Director of the Bobby Garcia Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico


Links to presentations and other materials are being provided as they become available.

 
9:00 Introductions and Welcome (archived webcast)
William L. Roper, MD, MPH
Dean of School of Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Archie Ervin, PhD
Assistant to the Chancellor
Director, Office of Minority Affairs
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melissa Green, Master's Student
Conference Chair
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:30 William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture (archived webcast)
Richard Moore
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
Sponsored by the UNC-CH Center for Minority Aging.
10:30 Poster Session and Break
11:00 Morning Concurrent Sessions
A1: Latino Health: New Faces in North Carolina
Zobeida Bonilla, PhD
Project Coordinator
Eduquemos a Nuestras Mujeres
Breast Cancer Awareness Project, Raleigh, NC
Adlih Moreno Coll
Rubella Outreach Coordinator
NC Department of Health and Human Services
Christina Harlan, RN, MA
Instructor
UNC School of Public Health
A2: Promoting Health in the Workplace
Sharon D. Beard
Industrial Hygienist
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Division of Extramural Research and Training
Worker Education and Training Program
Salli Benedict, MPH, CHES
Assistant Director for Community Development 
Implementation and Dissemination
UNC-CH Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Laura Linnan, ScD, CHES
Assistant Professor
UNC-CH School of Public Health
A3: HIV-AIDS: Partnerships for Justice
Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline.
Michael Joyner
Manager, Health Care Coalitions
GlaxoSmithKline
Research Triangle Park, NC
Yvonne Torres, MSHEd
HIV/STD Health Educator
Wake County Human Services
Raleigh, NC
Steven Walker
Executive Director
Donald R. Watkins Foundation
Houston, TX
A4: Migrant Workers: Moving Towards Health
Sharon Brown, LPN, MPH
Community Services Director
Tri-County Community Health Center
Martha Olaya-Crowley
Director of Change Management
Wake County Human Services
Stephanie Triantafillou, MPH
NCPHCA
A5: Environmental Justice for All
Reverend Carrie Bolton
Pastor
Field Organizer of Democracy South
Pittsboro, NC
Glenn Johnson, PhD
Clark-Atlanta University  Environmental Justice Resource Center
Savonala Horne, JD
Land Loss Prevention Project
NC Central University
12:15 pm Lunch
1:30 Afternoon Concurrent Sessions
B1: Community Activism: Starting Where the People Are
Dollie Burwell
Office of Congresswoman Eva Clayton
Warren County, NC
Gary Grant
Executive Director
Concerned Citizens of Tillery, NC
Valerie Kaalund, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of African and Afro-American Studies
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B2: Children's Health: Protecting our Future
Linda Carter
Today's Woman Health Center
Winston-Salem, NC
Ed Chu
Children's Health Project
EPA
Allan Steckler, DrPH
Professor
UNC-CH School of Public Health
B3: Healthy Aging: Everyone's Goal
Mary Bethel
Division of Aging
NC Department of Health and Human Services
Keum Pang, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Nursing
Howard University
Marion Primas, PhD, MS
Director
Healthy Aging
US DHHS
B4: Healthcare Access: Opening Doors
Tim Carey, MPH, MD
Director
Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Bronwyn Glenn, MPH
Minority Outreach Consultant for CHIP and NC Medicaid
Women's and Children's Health
NC Division of Public Health
Mercedes Hernandez-Pelletier, MPH
Farmworker Health Program Consultant
Office of Rural Health
B5: Rural Health: The Forgotten Minority
John Hatch, PhD
Professor Emeritus
UNC-CH School of Public Health
Christopher J. Mansfield, PhD     (Powerpoint presentation)
Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine, and 
Director
Center for Health Services Research and Development
East Carolina University
Yvette McMiller, MPH    (Powerpoint presentation [1 MB])
Program Specialist
Office of Research, Demonstrations and Rural Health Development
Raleigh, NC
2:45 Poster Session and Break
3:15 Panel Discussion
Public Health in the New Administration: Impact on the Future (archived webcast)
Bill Jenkins, PhD
Epidemiologist
National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD
National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, NC
Dennis McBride, MD, MPH
State Health Director
Division of Public Health
Raleigh, NC
Jacqueline Resnick
Director, Pan-University Program for Multi-Disciplinary Proposal Development
Proposal Development Initiative
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joel Schwartz, PhD
Adjunct Professor, University Professor of Distinguished Teaching
Department of Public Policy Analysis
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Janet Southerland, DSS, MPH, PhD
Chair, Hospital Dentistry
Director, General Rotation Practice
School of Dentistry
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:15 Conference Wrap-Up
Aundra Shields, JD
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
School of Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


 

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