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Your guide to minority health-related activities at UNC-CH |
Announcing the The Building Blocks to Well-being: Connections Between Health and Stress
Friday, February 23, 2024 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education Conference website: https://minorityhealth.web.unc.edu/conference/
The Building Blocks to Well-being: Connections Between Health and Stress, will explore the social determinants of health, the stress they can cause, and their impacts on the short- and long-term well-being of minority communities. The conference will explore the myriad ways our emotional, mental and physical health are linked throughout and beyond one's life, through life-course analyses and awareness of intergenerational impacts.
Co-chairs for the 45th Annual Minority Health Conference:
More links:
Watch the Annual Minority Health Conference Trailer (4 min) [video features founders Bill Jenkins and Geni Eng; cover image shows Delton Atkinson, Bill Jenkins, and Victoria Motley Washington attending a conference about a decade ago]
Minority Health Conference archival website, including (at the bottom) a link to all past annual conferences
Announcing the Practicing Health As a Human Right: Policy, Ethics and the Law
Friday, February 24, 2023 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education The conference theme, Practicing Health as a Human Right, recognizes that human rights provide a framework upon which we can ensure that equity and justice are routinely protected and upheld in the law. Practicing Health as a Human Right acknowledges that the public health problems of today are often structural, stemming from racism and other discriminatory practices and policies that have been codified into law, and therefore require legal and policy solutions. If public health practitioners, policymakers, and healthcare providers utilize human rights principles in the execution of their work, we stand a better chance of improving health outcomes and quality of life for all people.
Conference program (pdf) Keynote speakersCynthia R. Greenlee, 25th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture
Co-chairs for the 44th Annual Minority Health Conference:
Links:
Watch the Annual Minority Health Conference Trailer (4 min)
Minority Health Conference archival website
Announcing the Revolutionary Healing and Rebuilding: Learning from Today, Transforming Tomorrow
Thursday, February 24, 2022 online Conference website: https://minorityhealth.web.unc.edu/conference/ The conference theme, Revolutionary Healing and Rebuilding, recognizes that the first step in transforming systems and structures is to acknowledge past and present traumas of systemic racism. As we learn from today to transform tomorrow, we must recognize the pressing need to take lessons from our current situation and act now to build a better, more equitable future. Keynote speakersDonald Warne, 24th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture
Co-chairs for the 43rd Annual Minority Health Conference:
Links: Full program: View or download
Watch the Annual Minority Health Conference Trailer (4 min)
Minority Health Conference archival website
Announcing the Body and Soul: The Past, Present, and Future of Health Activism
Thursday-Friday, February 25-26, 2021 Body and Soul encompasses a holistic view of health, empowers people to find their voice in the activism space, and encourages people to use their gifts and skills to advocate for and create change for those in the margins. Keynote speakersWizdom Powell, 23rd Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture
Co-chairs for the 42nd Annual Minority Health Conference:
Breakout session: Activism in Action:
Evolution of the Minority Student Caucus at the
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Links:
Watch the Annual Minority Health Conference Trailer (4 min)
Minority Health Conference archival website
41st Annual Minority Health Conference Truth to Power: Exercising Political Voice to Achieve Health Equity
Friday, February 28, 2020 Conference website: http://minorityhealth.web.unc.edu/conference41/ Truth to Power recognizes a critical need for a more just and truthful world to improve our society. Historically, the courageous voices of people with less access to power have fueled movement-making and actions to disrupt resistive power structures. This year’s conference will focus on the tools and approaches we need to uplift marginalized voices, embolden effective leadership, and create policy that is community-driven and grounded in equity. Keynote speakersLaTosha Brown, 22nd Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture The 22nd Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture will be presented live in the Grumman Auditorium of the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at the opening of the full-day conference. The Lecture will be recorded and broadcast several hours later, in an interactive webcast during which you can submit questions to LaTosha Brown via email and social media (moderator: Laura Dugom, MPH Candidate at the Gillings School of Global Public Health enrolled in the Leadership in Practice concentration). The 90-minute webcast will begin at 2:00pm ET (11:00am PT, 12:00 MT, 1:00pm CT). Register to view the interactive webcast. (See below for recordings from earlier conferences)
Co-chairs for the 41st Annual Minority Health Conference:
Links:
Watch the Annual Minority Health Conference Trailer (4 min)
40th Annual Minority Health Conference Advocacy for Change: Celebrating Past Successes
Friday, February 22, 2019 This year's theme, Advocacy for Change: Celebrating Past Successes and Planning for the Future, celebrates how advocacy efforts are instrumental in advancing the health of minorities and people of color. The theme honors activist history and provides a forum through which communities can engage with advocacy efforts moving forward. Public health is the connecting thread in these movements for social change. We make an impact by showing that well-being is indicative of social determinants related to gender, race and ethnicity, wealth and class. Keynote speakersLinda Sarsour, 21st Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture
Co-chairs for the 40th Annual Minority Health Conference:
Links:
39th Annual Minority Health Conference, 2018 UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health This year's theme, Reclaiming the Narrative, is based on the recognition that the world is organized by the stories we tell. Stories have the power to influence the way we view ourselves and others and have the power to shape our actions. Given this sometimes unacknowledged influence, we must ask who are the storytellers, and who benefits from these narratives. The answers to these questions can offer an understanding of how we as public health professionals can progress and push public health agendas forward in a meaningful way. This year's theme challenges us to end the perpetuation of damaging rhetoric against marginalized communities. It highlights how resilient communities have fought to speak truth to power and refused to have their voices silenced and how public health practitioners can join such efforts. By reclaiming the narrative, communities and public health practitioners can reconcile the past and present and take agency in the future to promote health for all people. Keynote speakersMonica Raye Simpson, 20th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture Registration closed early because the conference was full! But you can view the recording of Monica Raye Simpson's William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture from the webcast or the full opening session (with welcomes and audience Q-and-A). Vann Newkirk's keynote lecture was recorded. (Mr. Newkirk also headlined the Conference on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity at the School of Law the following day.)
Co-chairs for the 39th Annual Minority Health Conference:
Here are several short videos from one of the breakout sessions: 50 seconds, 2 min., 30 sec. Pre-conference kick-off event: An Evening with Byron Hurt
Recordings from the 38th Annual Minority Health Conference, 2017
Presented February 24, 2017 Recordings available online:Opening session of the 38th Annual Minority Health Conference including welcomes and remarks by Minority Health Conference co-chairs, Minority Student Caucus co-presidents, Chancellor Carol Folt, Dean Barbara Rimer, Interim Chief Diversity Officer Rumay Alexander, and the 19th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Chandra FordWebcast of the 19th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Chandra Ford 6th Annual Victor J. Schoenbach Keynote Lecture by Robert Fullilove Closing Keynote Lecture by Amy Locklear Hertel (slides) The workshop by Randolph Carter on Meditation as a Form of Empowerment is available as an audio file (begins with a minute of silence) plus slides. The breakout session Why Place Matters: The Power of the Built Environment in Public Health (speakers Christina Chauvenet, MSc, MSPH, Charla J. Hodges, MPH, MCRP, and Tim Schwantes, MPH, MSW) is available as a video recording by the 38th MHC Communications Committee: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Watch the Annual Minority Health Conference Trailer (4 min)
Past keynote lectures from the Annual Minority Health Conference (archived webcasts) (most past webcasts) Minority Health Conference historical site, including a page with information for all Annual Minority Health Conferences, including audio recordings from 1977! History of the Minority Student Caucus and the Minority Health Conference |
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