NAQC Newsroom: Announcements

"Social Determinants of Health Disparities: Moving the Nation to Care about Social Justice"

Monday, April 23, 2012  
Posted by: Natalia Gromov

PLEASE JOIN US - in person or online - for the 18th National Health Equity Research Webcast (formerly known as the Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health).

When? Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 1:30-4:00pm EDT

Where? Webcast and Tate-Turner-Kuralt building auditorium - see www.minority.unc.edu

Topic: "Social Determinants of Health Disparities: Moving the Nation to Care about Social Justice"

Featuring:

  • CamaraP.Jones,M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity, Division of Adult and Community Health, NCCDPHP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Ronny A. Bell,Ph.D., M.S., Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and Co-Director, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
  • AidaL.M.Giachello,Ph.D., Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Moderator: CedricBright,M.D., F.A.C.P., Director, Office of Special Programs and Assistant Dean for Admissions, UNC School of Medicine and 112th President, National Medical Association

This free, interactive session will be broadcast with a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of Social Work and can be viewed over the Internet (webcast). Questions will be taken from broadcast participants by email and toll-free telephone.

For more information: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/

To register a group viewing site: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/broadcast/

To register to view on your personal computer: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/broadcast/

To register for the studio audience at the TTK auditorium: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/studio/

Answers to frequently asked questions: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/faq.cfm

Comments from last year's participants: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/eval/comments.cfm

Source: Vic Schoenbach (www.unc.edu/~vschoenb/),Director, Minority Health Project, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Cookie Newsom, Director of Diversity Education and Research, UNC Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs