ACE Equity and Inclusion Committee* annual workshops

*Previously known as the Minority Affairs Committee. The annual workshops were introduced by committee chair Vickie Mays. They have customarily taken place on the weekend before the ACE Annual Scientific Meeting

Workshop materials

[Committee Chair: Bertha Hidalgo]

• MAC Workshop with Dr. Eliseo Perez-Stable. Wednesday, September 23, 2020, Time: 11am – 12pm ET Location: Virtual, via Zoom. Workshop Chair: Bertha Hidalgo. Click here for description, slides, and recordings.
   
• Strategic Planning for the Elimination of Health Disparities. Saturday, September 7, 2019, Time: 12pm – 5pm. Location: Hilton Pasadena, Pasadena, CA. Workshop Chair: Bertha Hidalgo. Click here for flyer, slides, and amateur video by Victor Schoenbach.
   
• The Role of Equity in Shaping Precision Public Health. Saturday, September 22, 2018, Time: 12pm – 5pm, University of Cincinatti and Cincinatti Children's Hospital, Cincinatti OH. Workshop Chair: Bertha Hidalgo. workshop description (PDF). Click here for more information and links to amateur video by Victor Schoenbach.
   
• Meeting of the minds: Why haven’t compelling epidemiologic data eliminated health disparities?. September 23, 2017, New Orleans, LA. Workshop Chair: Bertha Hidalgo. Presentations by Victor Schoenbach. workshop description. Click here for more information and links to amateur video by Chandra Ford and Victor Schoenbach.
   
• Closing the US Health Disparities Gap: An International and National Epidemiological Perspective (link), Epidemiology Congress of the Americas, June 2016, Miami, FL. Workshop Chairs: Bertha Hidalgo and Victor Cardenas; Faculty: Chandra Ford (video part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, slides, audio), Ana Diez Roux (video on request), Robert Fullilove (video) (amateur video by Victor Schoenbach)
   
• Addressing systemic determinants of health disparities in the US, Bertha Hidalgo, moderator; September 26, 2015, Decatur(Atlanta) GA (Agenda) 
  Amateur video by Victor Schoenbach:
  * Dr. Bill Jenkins, "The imaginary variable: a reason we have not solved health disparities" (Keynote) (video part 1  part 2)
  * Dr. Michael Kramer (Emory University), "The (re)production of health disparities: space, time, and complexity" (video)
   

[Committee Chair: Charles Oke]

• Factors Affecting Policies that Influence Minority Health, September 6, 2014, Silver Spring, MD (slides from Jeannette Noltenius' presentation on multi-ethnic coalitions)
   
• Enhancing the Epidemiologist’s Research Toolbox: An Introduction to Systems Science, Saturday, September 21, 2013, Louisville, KY. Program organized by Jonathan Tobin. (workshop description - courtesy of the Internet Archive)
   
• Factors Impacting the Translation of Epidemiological Findings into Policies Affecting Health Disparities, Saturday, September 8, 2012, 1:00-5:00 pm, Chicago, IL (workshop description - courtesy of the Internet Archive)
   
• [2011 - No MAC workshop due to Congress of Epidemiology meeting]
   

[Committee Chair: Jorge Ibarra]

• Health Disparities, Definition, Measurements, Determinants, and Controversies, Saturday, September 11, 2010, San Francisco. (slides from Vic Schoenbach's presentation on "The Epidemiology of Diversity in Epidemiology")
   
• Achieving Diversity in the Field of Epidemiology: Progress Made, Challenges and Opportunities, Saturday, September 12, 2009, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Crowne Plaza Hotel Washington DC – Silver Spring, MD
   
• Research Ethics in Studying Genes and the Environment in Diabetes among Ethnic Minorities, Saturday, September 13, 2008 - The Westin LaPaloma Resort & Spa, Tucson AZ - Presentations by Paul Ewald, the evolution of disease; Carlos Castillo-Chavez, interactive modeling of infectious diseases; Charles Rotimi, genomics and health disparities; Thomas Weiser, ethics in research; and Yvette Roubideaux, Native American communities and diabetes. Jorge Ibarra and Olivia Carter-Pokras, moderated; Chandra Ford and Charles Oke facilitated workshop sessions.
   
• Applying Epidemiologic Methods in the Hispanic Community Health Study - Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), Saturday, September 15, 2007 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL Workshop description: As part of its mission to increase minority representation in epidemiology and recommend actions to increase research on health concerns of minority populations, the Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) is sponsoring an all-day scientific workshop to introduce the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Scheduled to be launched in Fall 2007, the HCHS/SOL is a multi-center epidemiologic cohort study of approximately 16,000 Latinos of Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican and Central/South American origin being conducted at 5 sites throughout the United States. The investigators from each of the sites will attend the workshop and share with us data from the preliminary efforts on the study. Study goals include studying the prevalence and development of physical disease in Hispanics/Latinos, the role of acculturation, and the identification of risk factors that play protective or harmful roles in Hispanics/ Latinos physical health using extensive clinic exams and interviews. Join us in learning about innovation and sharing of best practices in the design, conduct and analysis of epidemiologic studies of Latino subpopulations in the United States. The study investigators attending the meeting are Paul Sorlie (NIH/NHLBI Project Officer, HCHS), Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University); Martha Daviglus (Northwestern University); Neil Schneiderman, (University of Miami); Greg Talavera (San Diego State University); and Lloyd E. Chambless (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PI, HCHS Data Coordinating Center).
   

[Committee Chair: Vickie Mays]

• Race and Pharmacogenomics: What's An Epidemiologist to Do? (Vickie Mays organizer/ F. J. Nieto coordinator) 2006 - Seattle, WA [North American Congress of Epidemiology]
   
• Race and Pharmacogenomics: What's An Epidemiologist to Do? (Vickie Mays organizer/ F. J. Nieto coordinator) [2005 - New Orleans LA; the MAC workshop and ACE meeting were cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina - see 2006]
   
• Saturday, September 11, 2004, Boston, MA
   
• What’s An Epidemiologists To Do?: Implications of the Classification of Race and Ethnicity for Research on Health Disparities in Blacks, Asians, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, Vickie Mays, moderator; Saturday, September 6, 2003, Chicago, IL (program)
   
• [Inaugural workshop] Community-Based Participatory Research with American Indian and Latino Communities: Epidemiologists in the Community. Felicia Hodge and Nina Wallerstein; Vickie Mays, moderator; Sunday, September 22, 2002, Albuquerque, NM (program). A report on this first Minority Affairs Committee workshop appeared in the ACE newsletter for Winter 2003 (see pages 7 and 9).
   

Updated 8/21/2019,10/22/2020, 11/20/2024 by Victor Schoenbach