Email announcement 1/25/2011

COMING FEBRUARY 25:

32nd Annual Minority Health Conference and broadcast of the 13th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture

Dr. Bonnie M. Duran, associate professor at the University of Washington and Director of the Center for Indigenous Health Research, will give the 13th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture at the 32nd Annual Minority Health Conference presented by the Minority Student Caucus, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Duran's lecture will be broadcast as a free, interactive webcast.

When: Friday, February 25, 2011, 8:00am-4:30pm (broadcast at 2:00-3:30pm EST).

Where: UNC William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, Chapel Hill, NC and (Keynote only) on the web.

Conference theme: "The Promise of Health Equity: Advancing the Discussion to Eliminate Disparities in the 21st Century"

Conference information: http://studentorgs.unc.edu/msc/

Broadcast information: www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2011/broadcast/

Partner conferences are being organized by student organizations at the University of Illinois Chicago, George Washington University, Tulane University, and UCLA: www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2011/partnerconferences/ Let us know if you'd like to organize one.

Dr. Duran's keynote will kick off an exciting day, with sessions and speakers including:

  • The National HIV/AIDS Strategy: What Does It Mean for the Future of HIV Prevention, with Gregorio Millett, Senior Policy Advisor for the White House Office of National AIDS Planning and a key architect of the national strategy
  • HIV Policy in National, State, and Local Context - Interactive Session, with Gregorio Millett, Dr. Peter Leone, and John Paul Womble
  • Rural Health, with Dr. Marci Campbell and community stakeholders
  • LGBT Health
  • Mental Health among the Latino Population
  • Occupational Health
  • Diabetes among the American Indian Population, with Dr. Ronny Bell, Director of the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
  • Food Deserts, with Camillia Easley
  • Grassroots Advocacy and Activism
  • Health Issues among Older Adults
Session descriptions: http://studentorgs.unc.edu/msc/index.php/conference/conference-2011/session-topics-2011

Register online at www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2011/register/ for the conference or the broadcast.

Please share this announcement with your colleagues and friends.

Best regards,
Vic Schoenbach, www.unc.edu/~vschoenb/
Director, Minority Health Project, www.minority.unc.edu
Archived webcasts from the Annual Minority Health Conference and the Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health, including presentations by Mayra Alvarez, Ralph Forquera, Tony Whitehead, Reginald Weaver, Dina Castro, Nicholas Freudenberg, Lillian Sparks, Robert Fullilove, Barbara Wallace, Nancy Krieger, Claudia Baquet, Spero Manson, Abel Valenzuela, Frank Wong, Nancy Krieger, Karina Walters, Gilbert Gee, Luisa Borrell, David Williams, Michelle Cotton-Laws, Sharon Height, Adrienne Witherspoon, Joseph Graves, Jr., Pilar Ossorio, Morris Foster, Michael Bird, Camara Jones, and others.

P.S. If you haven't already done so, please take a moment to answer 4 brief questions, at www.minority.unc.edu/fourquestions/

Other UNC events in February:

Isabel Wilkerson, former national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times and the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism: "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" Friday, February 18 2011, GC Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center. See www.sph.unc.edu/schoolwide_news/pulitzer_prize-winning_journalist_and_author_to_visit_unc_in_february_17046_8289.html

2011 Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Children of the Road," presented by Mary Lou de Leon Siantz, PhD, RN, FAAN, assistant dean of diversity and cultural affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. February 21, 2011, UNC School of Nursing. See http://carolinanursingnews.com/2010/12/16/national-nursing-leader-to-present-research-on-migratory-children/

February 26, 2011: Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity: Health Care Reform: Who's Left Out? School of Law. See http://studentorgs.law.unc.edu/crcge/

June 7, 2011: 17th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health, "Health Equity: progress and pitfall," with Jeffrey A. Henderson, Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, and Brian D. Smedley. (More details soon.)
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Last updated: 1/25,27/2011 by Vic Schoenbach