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• Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture   Next broadcast: February 27, 2009
• Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health
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June 3, 2008   Men’s Health Disparities: Implications for Research and intervention”     (Media advisory)     (Archived webcast) The 14th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference, presented by the UNC SPH Minority Health Project, UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and NC A & T State University Institute for Public Health features a panel with Drs. Claudia Baquet, Spero Manson, Abel Valenzuela, and Frank Wong, moderated by Stephanie Crayton. (more) (Broadcast by c-band satellite and Internet [webcast].) Videoconference links   Videoconference home page   Internet broadcast (webcast) information (View the archived webcast)   Evaluation forms for participants (online, printable) and group facilitators (online, printable)   Presentation abstracts   Satellite broadcast information   View list of sponsors   View list of participating programs (to date)   See comments from participants in last year’s Annual Videoconference (Posted 3/19/2008, 4/6/2008)     Presented February 29, 2008: “The Impact of Poverty, Culture, and Environment on Minority Health” The 29th Annual Minority Health Conference, presented by the UNC SPH Minority Student Caucus, featured the 10th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, “The Science and Epidemiology of Racism and Health in the United States: an Ecosocial Perspective”, by Nancy Krieger, M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard University. (Keynote lecture was broadcast by satellite and Internet [webcast].) Conference links     Conference brochure (7 MB pdf)     View archived webcast     Keynote speaker, abstract, bibliography, full text     Comments from last year's broadcast participants     29th Annual Minority Health Conference home page Evaluation forms for     Attendees   Broadcast participants   Broadcast site facilitators (Posted 10/29/2007)   Archived from June 25, 2007: “Does racism make us sick?” The 13th Annual Summer Public Health Videoconference on Minority Health took place Monday, June 25, 2007 at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. A panel of distinguished experts (Drs. Luisa N. Borrell, Gilbert Gee, Karina Walters, David Williams) was moderated by Stephanie Crayton. (More . . .) Videoconference links     Videoconference home page     *View or download the archived webcast* (now available in both Real and Windows Media formats [WMF courtesy of Kaisernetwork.org])     Purchase a DVD     Participant comments (Posted 3/30/2007, 5/15/2007, 6/26/2007, 4/6/2008)   Archived from February 23, 2007: “AIDS at 25: Emerging from the Matrix” (View the on-demand webcast) The 28th Annual Minority Health Conference, led by the School of Public Health Minority Student Caucus, took place Friday, February 23, 2007 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, NC. The 9th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture was presented by David J. Malebranche, M.D., M.P.H. of Emory University School of Medicine and was broadcast via satellite and Internet (no charge to participate in this interactive broadcast). (More . . .)  (Posted 9/14/2006)   Coming Soon   “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” Produced by California Newsreel, this four-hour documentary will be broadcast on PBS on four consecutive Thursdays beginning March 27, 2008 and also distributed on DVD. The series, an accompanying public impact campaign, and a toolkit for organizations desiring to stimulate change are being developed in tandem with initiatives led by the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, the American Public Health Association, The Praxis Project and other partners. [View preview clip] (Posted 12/19/2007)   “Innovations in Data Use Methods and Applications” 2008 Data Use Institute Annual Workshop , presented by the Institute for Public Health, North Carolina A&T State University, in partnership with Guilford County Healthy Carolinians. April 9, 2008, 8:30am-4:00pm, NC A&T State University Alumni-Foundation Event Center (Posted 12/21/2007)   POSTPONED “Creating a Healthier Tomorrow Through Community and Academic Partnerships” 2008 Annual Public Health Forum, presented by the Institute for Public Health, North Carolina A&T State University, in partnership with the UNCG School of Health and Human Performance and Guilford County Healthy Carolinians. April 10, 2008, 8:30am-4:00pm, NC A&T State University Alumni-Foundation Event Center (Posted 12/21/2007, rev. 1/26/2008)   Other announcements       (More health disparities events)   Emerging Leaders in Public Health The Emerging Leaders in Public Health Program is designed to prepare the next generation of public health leaders by identifying and training those individuals with the talent to serve in significant leadership capabilities in the next decade. The program's topics include balancing communications needs, financial resources and human resources during times of crises, analyzing crisis scenarios and assessing their potential impact on one's organization and community, creating sustainable organizations in public health and managing an increasingly diverse workforce. If you or a colleague are concerned with health disparities, work with minority populations, have been in public health for three years and aspire to a leadership role in public health service, Emerging Leaders in Public Health is accepting applications for enrollment. (more info). (Posted 4/6/2008)   New UNC American Indian Center gets first director Clara Sue Kidwell, director of Native American studies and professor of history at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK, has been hired as the first director of the new American Indian Center at UNC (more). (Posted 5/15/2007)   NIH News: “New Findings on the Willingness of Minorities to Participate in Health Research”   External Funding Opportunities for Underrepresented Minorities and Diversity The Graduate School hosted a workshop for external funding opportunities available to underrepresented minorities and diverse populations. Handout materials distributed during the workshop and information about funding workshops conducted by the Grantsource Library: http://research.unc.edu/grantsource/graduate1.html For information about the Graduate School Fellowship and Funding Workshops: http://gradschool.unc.edu/fellowships_and_funding/05workshops.html National and International University of Pittsburgh establishes Minority Health Archive The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Minority Health (CMH) of the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) and the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) have joined to develop the Minority Health Archive (MHA) as an online repository for minority health documents. (Posted 1/7/06)   Videotapes from many of our broadcasts are now available from the Public Health Foundation (select “Minority Health”) (Posted 3/8/05)

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Minority Health Project| Department of Epidemiology | UNC-CH School of Public Health 2104D McGavran-Greenberg, CB#7435 | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435 Phone 919-966-7436 | Fax 919-966-2089| E-mail Minority_Health@unc.edu Last updated: 4/6/2008, 5/1,9,30/2008, 6/3,6,9/2008 by Vic Schoenbach