24th Annual Minority Health Conference

Social Determinants of Health: Assembling Pieces of the Puzzle

Friday, March 1, 2002

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

William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Speaker:

Sherman A. James, PhD
University of Michigan

Keynote address will be broadcast by satellite and Internet.
Click here for information and satellite downlink registration.

Among the most important accomplishments of public health in the U.S. during the last century is the successful reduction of many environmental conditions that negatively impact health of the public. However, today there still exist socially constructed institutionalized barriers that lead to increased health concerns among populations of color and poor communities. Access to transportation, quality education and other macro-level social and economic forces influence the health disparities that exist throughout the United States. These disparities suggest that community members, public health practitioners, public health researchers, educators, urban planners and industry officials must all come together in order to better understand and address socially constructed threats to public health.

The 24th Annual Minority Health Conference, entitled Social Determinants of Health: Assembling Pieces of the Puzzle has as its goals to explore the impact of social and environmental factors on the health of minority populations by:

• Presenting the underlying conditions,
• examining innovative strategies, and
• identifying priority areas for future research and practice.

Guidelines

Abstracts must be typed, single-spaced and should be no longer than 250 words. The title of the abstract should be centered at the top of the page. The author’s name and academic degrees should follow the title. Leave one blank line between the title and the author’s name and two blank lines between the author name and the first line of the abstract. Each abstract should include the following headings: introduction, methods, results, and conclusion. All abstracts should be relevant to minority health and to one of the concurrent session topics.

If you would like to present a poster, please e-mail your abstract or submit a typed, original copy by mail. Be sure to include the following information: title of abstract, author’s name and academic degrees, author’s position/title, mailing address, phone number (including area code), fax number and e-mail address. Abstracts that do not adhere to the above guidelines will not be reviewed.

Send abstract to:

Yolanda Riggsbee
Office of Continuing Education
NC Institute for Public Health
School of Public Health
CB# 8165, TTK Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165

8:00 am
Registration/Continental Breakfast

9:00
Introductions and Welcome
Dean William Roper, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Archie Ervin, Assistant to the Chancellor, Director of the UNC Office of Minority Affairs, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maceo Thomas, Master's Student, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9:30
William T. Small Jr. Keynote Address
Sherman A. James, PhD
Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health
School of Public Health, University of Michigan

10:30
Poster Session and Break

11:00
Morning Concurrent Sessions

A1: Research Methods: Uncovering Problems, Gathering Evidence, Solving the Puzzle
Steven B. Wing, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, UNC-CH School of Public Health
Jay Kaufman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UNC-CH School of Public Health
Lori Carter-Edwards, PhD, Senior Project Manager and Epidemiologist, Rho, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A2: Upward Bound:Community Building
Carol Parks-Bani, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC-CH School of Public Health
Moses V. Goldmon, PhD, Associate Director, NC Health Careers Access Program, UNC-CH
Tamra Stark, President, Transformative Leadership Solutions, Durham, NC

A3: Plan On It: Regional Planning
William M. Rohe, PhD, Dean E. Smith Professor of City and Regional Planning, Director of the Center for Urgan and Regional Studies, UNC-CH
Mary Beth Powell, Associate Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, UNC-CH

A4: Creating a Stable Community: Housing and Transportation Issues
James B. Cowan, DVM, MSPH, CHES, Director, Allied Health Services, Rowan County Health Department, Salisbury, NC
Cecil D. Corbin-Mark, Community Organizer, WE ACT, Inc, New York, NY
Daniel Rodriquez, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, UNC-CH

A5: Show Me the Money: Funding Sources Roundtable
Terry L. Bazzarre, PhD, Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Beverley Francis, Director of Philanthropic Services, Triangle Community Foundation
Allen Dearry, PhD, Chief, Chemical Exposures and Molecular Biology Branch, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Ingrid Jones, Project Manager, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation

12:15 pm
Lunch

1:30
Concurrent Sessions Continued

B1: Native American Health Issues
Gregory Richardson, Executive Director, NC Commission of Indian Affairs, Raleigh, NC
Brett Locklear, Program Coordinator, Earn Your Feather Program, NC Commission on Indian Affairs, Raleigh, NC
John Spangler, MD, MPH, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Ronny Bell, PhD, MS, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

B2: Social and Environmental Determinants of Diet and Health Outcomes
Mark Daniel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and Epidemiology, UNC-CH School of Public Health
Kim Morland, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, US Environmental Protection Agency, RTP, NC
Ann H. Skelly, PhD, Associate Professor of Nursing, UNC-CH School of Nursing
Sally Nash, Project Manager, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, UNC

B3: Community Lockdown: Prisons and Beyond
Melissa Green, MPH, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, NC Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, NC
James C. Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, UNC-CH School of Public Health
Amani Nuru-Jeter, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

B4: Addressing Men's Health, Sexuality and Homophobia in Our Community
Michael O. Royster, MD, MPH, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC-CH School of Public Health
Kim Diehl, Executive Director, Southerners on New Ground, Durham, NC

B5: Trading Places: An Interactive Poverty Simulation--Part 1
Sharon Glover, Consultant, Change by Design, Kernersville, NC

2:45
Poster Session and break

3:00
Concurrent Sessions

C1: The ABC's of Education: Are We Making the Grade?
Walter C. Farrell, MA, PhD, MSPH, Professor, School of Social Work, UNC-CH,and Associate Director, Urban Investment Strategies, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-CH
Daniella Cook, PACE, Durham, NC

C2: In the Field: The Health Hazards of Migrant Farming
Dawn Burtt, Migrant Stream Coordinator, NC Primary Health Care Association
Stephanie Triantafillou, MPH, Migrant Health Specialist, NC Primary Health Care Association
Tom Arcury, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

C3: Asian Influences on Health Practicies
Judith B. Farquhar, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH
Zhenjiang Chen, MD, LAc, Acupuncturist, Carolina Acupuncture
Kay Ying Lo, Hmong Bi-Lingual Resource Specialist, Catawba County Schools

C4: Lights, Camera, Action: The Influence of the Media
Jane D. Brown, PhD, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications, UNC-CH School of Journalism
Lahoma S. Romocki, MPH, Doctoral Student, UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Kurt Ribisl, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC-CH School of Public Health
Jose "Pepe" Caudillo, Journalist, La Conexion

C5: Poverty Simulation, continued
Sharon Glover

Conference Sponsors

School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Minority Student Caucus
• Student Union Board
• Minority Health Project
• North Carolina Institute for Public Health
• Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
• Department of Health Policy and Administration

Cosponsors

The University of North Carolina

• General Administration
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Chancellor’s Office
• Vice Provost for Health Affairs
• Carolina Population Center
• UNC Center on Minority Aging

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
• Association of Schools of Public Health

GlaxoSmithKline

Hotel Information

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at several local hotels. Please mention the Minority Health Conference when making reservations (by January 15, 2002) at the following hotels:

Red Roof Inn, 800-733-7663
$61.99 not including tax
Group Reservation #B201000831

Comfort Inn, 919-490-4949
$69.00 not including tax

Sheraton Hotel, 919-968-4900
$89.00 not including tax

Homewood Suites, 919-401-0610
(2 room suite) $109.00 not including
tax (includes breakfast)

* Lunch is available to those who pre-register and pay by 2/15/02. Participants who do not pre-register and pay by 2/15/02 may purchase lunch at nearby restaurants.

Registration fees are due prior to the conference. Make checks payable to NCIPH.

Choose one of four ways to register:

• Complete the www registration page for this workshop and click the REGISTER NOW button, OR

• E-mail all registration information to oce@unc.edu, OR

• Fax the information on the registration page  to 919-966-5692, OR

• Call 919-966-4032, OR

• Mail your completed registration form to:

Registrar, Office of Continuing Education
CB# 8165 Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building
UNC-CH School of Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
(State Courier Code 17-61-04)

Participation is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register as soon as possible.

You will receive written confirmation of your registration. If you have not received a letter one week before the program date, please call 919-966-4032 to check on the status of your registration.

If you find that you are unable to attend, please call 919-966-4032 to cancel and allow another person to attend. Substitutions from the same agency are allowed at any time with prior notification of the registrar (oce@unc.edu or 919-966-4032).

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