6th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Program for Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO)

Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (about)

 Reports

 

“Out in the Rural”

22-minute film about the Delta Health Center, Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi, led by H. Jack Geiger and John W. Hatch (Posted 9/18/2008)

 

“How the VA Abandons Our Vets”

Joshua Kors August 27, 2008 "Dr. Frances Murphy had been one of the VA's shining stars. In 2004 she helped draft the Mental Health Strategic Plan, a blueprint for overhauling the VA. The plan called for 265 changes to the organization . . . The plan was hailed by military leaders and veterans' groups. VA officials extolled it to reporters and members of Congress, citing it as proof of the organization's rapid transformation. . . . on March 29, 2006, almost two years after the plan's release, a group of prominent mental health organizations asked the doctor to address them in Washington. Following her speech, she would be given the Leadership in Government Award before an audience of high-profile figures: Senator Ted Kennedy, Surgeon General Richard Carmona, 60 Minutes's Mike Wallace and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. . . . 'Government likes to begin things, to declare grand new programs and causes,' she told the audience. 'But good beginnings are not the measure of success, in government or any other pursuit. What matters in the end is completion. Performance. Results. Not just making promises.' Days later Dr. Murphy was fired." (Posted 9/7/2008)

 

“A Road Map for Juvenile Justice Reform”

Annie E. Casey Foundation 2008 Kids Count Data Book essay, "A Road Map for Juvenile Justice Reform", plus a 3-page chart of state by state data on child well-being (Posted 8/26/2008)

 

“Race, Racism and Health: Patterns, Paradoxes, and Needed Research”

David R. Williams, Ph.D. Dr. Williams presented the John C. Cassel Memorial Lecture at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, June 24-27, 2008, on the theme "Social Determinants of Health" (www.epiresearch.org/meeting/). The slides for the Keynote by Dr. Diana Kuh on Life Course Epidemiology will also be posted. (Posted 8/26/2008)

 

“Journal of Diversity in Higher Education”

Editor: Michael R. Stevenson Launched in 2008, this quarterly journal offers research findings, theory, and promising practices to help guide the efforts of institutions of higher education in the pursuit of inclusive excellence. (Posted 8/25/2008)

 

“Civil Rights Initiatives: Compromising Health and Diversity. June 2008”

Health Professionals for Diversity Coalition During the 2008 November election, citizens of Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska will decide on the future of race and gender-conscious programming for all public, state-funded programs. The "Civil Rights Initiatives" are ballot initiatives seek to change state constitutions to prohibit programs aimed at increasing and enhancing diversity in government and public education. (Posted 8/3/2008)

 

“Diversity Data”

The DiversityData project identifies metropolitan area indicators of diversity, opportunity, quality of life and health for various racial and ethnic population groups. Data and maps can be retrieved by indicator and racial/ethnic group. (Posted 6/28/2008)

 

“Black Doctors”

Frank Stasio and Katy Barron Broadcast July 23, 2008 and archived. The American Medical Association has apologized for its history of racial discrimination over more than a century and its failure to champion efforts to end segregated health care during the Civil Rights Movement. The effects of discrimination in organized medicine have been long-lasting. Guests: East Carolina University Medical Historian Todd Savitt; Spencie Love, author of a new book about Dr. Charles Drew; Doctor Gloria Frelix, president of the Old North State Medical Society; Doctor Paul Cunningham, incoming Dean of ECU's Brody School of Medicine. (Posted 7/23/2008)

 

“American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many”

Charla Bear May 2008 Two-part report on NPR's Morning Edition about the U.S. federal government policy of removing American Indian children from their families and forcing them to attend boarding schools where they were forced to abandon their language and culture. Additional reading: http://www.tedna.org/pubs/Kennedy/toc.htm, http://www.niea.org/history/educationhistory.php (Posted 5/20/2008)

 

“Identifying with Obama's Pastor”

Robert Seymour Durham Herald-Sun April 4, 2008 Robert Seymour is the Minister Emeritus of the Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. (Posted 4/6/2008)

 

“When MLK died, one man reached across the divide”

Leonard Pitts, Jr. Miami Herald April 3, 2008 (Posted 4/6/2008)

 

“Can you see the Promised Land of equality?”

Leonard Pitts, Jr. Miami Herald April 2, 2008 (Posted 4/6/2008)

 

“Brazil in Black and White”

PBS Wide Angle Brazil in Black and White follows the lives of five young college hopefuls as they compete to win a coveted spot at the elite University of Brasilia, where 20 percent of the incoming freshmen must qualify as Afro-Brazilian. WIDE ANGLE also reports on the controversial racial debate roiling Brazil through profiles of civil right activists, opponents of affirmative action, and one of the country's few black senators. (Posted 9/6/2007)

 

“Unnatural causes: is inequality making us sick?”

Produced by California Newsreel, Unnatural Causes will sound the alarm about America's glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health--and search for their root causes. The four-hour series (for PBS broadcast and DVD release) sifts through the evidence suggesting there is more to our health than bad habits, health care, or unlucky genes.

 

“Ethnicity, Race, and Health in Multicultural Societies: Foundations for better epidemiology, public health, and health care”

By Raj S. Bhopal. Oxford University Press January 2007. Contents: 1. Introduction: the concepts of ethnicity and race in health; 2. Terminology and classifications for ethnic and racial groups; 3. Challenges of collecting and interpreting data using the concepts of ethnicity and race; 4. Historical analysis of the development of health and health care services for ethnic minorities; 5. Defining health and health care needs using quantitative and qualitative data; 6. Ethnic inequalities in health and health care; 7. Principles for setting priorities for ethnic minority populations; 8. Strategic approaches to health and health care services for ethnic minority groups; 9. Research on and with ethnic minority groups: past and future; 10. Theoretical, ethical and future-orientated perspectives.

 

“RACE Are we so different?”

May 2006 The RACE project has organized and sponsored scholarly events and activities, including conferences and sessions at annual meetings. The world premiere of the exhibit opened January 10, 2007 at the Science Museum of Minnesota.

 

“Kaiser Health Disparities Report”

KaiserNetwork.org: synthesizes news coverage from hundreds of print and broadcast news sources related to health and health care issues that affect racial and ethnic communities. The report also highlights new studies and journal articles, initiatives, developments in the field, and upcoming events. (Posted 1/20/2007)

 

“Race, Race-Based Discrimination, and Health Outcomes Among African Americans”

Vickie M. Mays, Susan D. Cochran, and Namdi W. Barnes. January 2007. Annual Review of Psychology. 2007;58:201-225 (Posted 12/28/2006)

 

“Investing in a Diverse Democracy: Foundation Giving to Minority-Led Nonprofits”

The Greenlining Institute. Fall 2006. This new study by the Greenlining Institute finds that only 3.6% of grant dollars from the nation’s top 24 private foundations went to minority-led organizations.

 

“Dying While Black”

Vernellia R. Randall Seven Principles Press, October, 2006. This black health deficit is directly traceable to the slave health deficit. Repairing the health of African Americans will require a multifaceted long term legal and financial commitment. Reparation is not merely a monetary cash payment but also an equitable remedy that requires that the harm be repaired. The United States government because of its legal sanction of slavery, an international crime against humanity, is obligated to do whatever it takes to repair black health. proposes a specific program of equitable, rather than compensatory, reparations including a comprehensive health care civil rights law. (Posted 10/11/2006)

 

“The Trail of Tears Cherokee Legacy; Black Indians: An American Story; and other Native American films”

Rich-Heape Films, Inc. Rich-Heape Films works to inform, educate, and encourage the awareness of Native American tribal histories, cultures, languages and the aspirations of native people and Mother Earth, through the creation, production and distribution of audio/visual presentations of our DVD videos and CDs. Rich-Heape Films, Inc. has been recognized as 1999 and 2003 American Indian Business of the Year by the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Texas. (Posted 8/8/2006)

 

“Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard African-American Men Survey”

Kaiser Family Foundation 2006 The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University have released a new survey of the views and experiences of African-American men on marriage and family, education, careers and health, among other issues, and includes comparisons to the views and experiences of African-American women and white men and women. The 15th in a series, the African-American Men Survey was conducted by telephone from March 20 to April 29, 2006, among 2,864 randomly selected adults nationwide, including: 1,328 black men; 507 black women; 437 white men and 495 white women. The complete survey results and detailed methodology description are available. The Washington Post series on "Being a Black Man" is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/interactives/blackmen/blackmen.html . (Posted 7/18/2006)

 

“Beneath the Pines: Stories of Migrant Tree Planters”

Immigrant Justice Project Southern Poverty Law Center 2005 (Posted 7/1/2006)

 

“1898 Wilmington Race Riot - Final Report, May 31, 2006”

Wilmington Race Riot Commission North Carolina Office of Archives & History. (Posted 6/1/2006)

 

“Health Science Enrichment Programs for Minority and Disadvantaged Students”

North Carolina Health Careers Access Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2006-2007 (Posted 5/20/2006)

 

“Clearinghouse of materials on major areas of health policy, including minority health”

Kaiser Family Foundation Reports, statistics, resources, fact sheets, basic overviews on health care policy, including HIV/AIDS, Medicaid, Medicare, health law, minority health, quality of care, prescription drugs, and women's health (Posted 6/18/2006)

 

“Narratives of North Carolina Epidemiology: HIV Goes Back to College”

Anton Zuicker 2004 1) review of AIDS journalism and narrative writing and provides background to a recent NC outbreak, and 2) narrative-style non-fiction magazine article that explores the work of researchers, epidemiologists and public health officials in response to the NC college HIV increase (Posted 5/20/2006)

 

“Minority Health Special Collection on the AHEC Digital Library”

Includes resources on Cultural and Language Competency (Tools for Culturally Competent Care, Training, Organizations and Associations, Interpretation/Translation Services), Issues in Minority Health (Access to Health Care, Environmental Justice, Health Disparities, Collaborating with Communities, Minority Health Offices/Programs), Health in Minority Communities (African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Rural and Migrant Health, Hispanic/Latino Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Immigrant and Refugee Health), Research and Professional Development (Research Centers, Books/Journals and Other Resources, Professional and Student Associations, Fellowships/Research Support, Student Scholarships and Programs) (Posted 5/6/2006)

 

“Methods in Social Epidemiology”

J. Michael Oakes and Jay S. Kaufman (eds), Jossey-Bass, May 2006. "Methods in Social Epidemiology not only illuminates the difficult questions that future generations of social epidemiologists must ask, it also identifies the paths they must boldly travel in the pursuit of answers, if this exciting interdisciplinary science is to realize its full potential. This beautifully edited volume appears at just the right moment to exert a profound influence on the field." - Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies, professor of Community and Family Medicine, professor of African-American Studies, Duke University. Includes: "Measuring and Analyzing 'Race,' Racism, and Racial Discrimination" (chapter 4) by Saffron Karlsen and James Yzet Nazroo. (Posted 5/3/2006)

 

“King County Equity & Social Justice Initiative ”

2008 This report was developed by King County and its many employees who passionately serve and work with residents every day. www.kingcounty.gov/equity/, 206-296-4600 (Posted 3/5/2008)

 

“Upward Mortality”, by Kai Wright (Mother Jones, May/June 2006)

 

Minority Scientists Network

A collaborative effort involving the ScienceCareers Web site and the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources (Posted 4/16/06)

 

NIH Told to Get Serious About Giving Minorities a Hand

A National Academies’ report (Assessment of NIH Minority Research and Training Programs, Phase 3, NRC, 2005) says that these controversial programs can't be I assessed without better data-and better management. Science 20 Jan 2006;311(5759):328 (Posted 4/6/06)

 

Reports available from the University of California, Office of the President

• Public Health Education and the University of California. Final Report of the Health Sciences Committee -- April 2004


• Increasing Diversity in the Health Professions: A Look at Best Practices in Admissions. Background document to the Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S. Health Care Workforce, Institute of Medicine, October, 2003


• Health Sciences Education Workforce Needs and Enrollment Planning (“UC Health Sciences Planning Study released - FINAL”)

(Posted 4/6/06)

 

Preparing Minority Scientists and Engineers Michael F. Summers and Freeman A. Hrabowski

Report on the accomplishments of the Meyerhoff Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Science 2006(31 March); 311(5769):1870-1871. Online version includes links to cited references) (Posted 4/6/06)

 

Black youth and the origins of the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill, NC: “Chapter 4: Black lives in Chapel Hill and the origins of the activist core, 1937-1960”

From the masters thesis by John Chapman, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Posted 11/15/05)

 

Native American Elders Health Care Series

From South Dakota State University. (Posted 06/25/05)

 

Equity and Health - by Caren E. Blinka and Angelina Esparza. From OncoLog, January 2005, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Posted 02/10/05)

 

Special report: “Shattering the Myth: An Initial Snapshot of Voter Disenfranchisement in the 2004 Elections”

December 2004 report by People for the American Way, the NAACP, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for Election Protection, a coalition of over 50 organizations. (View the hearing on C-Span.org) (Posted 12/09/04)

 

The 2003 Healthy Homes Initiative (HHI): “Report on environmental health hazards in the nation’s low income housing stock”

National Organization of African Americans in Housing, February 2003, Washington DC (Posted 12/12/04)

 

A Silent Epidemic: Why is there such a high percentage of HIV & AIDS among Black Women? by Jon Cohen (Posted 11/04/04)

 

Advancing Healthy Populations:  The Pfizer Guide to Careers in Public Health  

This Guide was editted by Barbara A. DeBuono and Hugh Tilson. The guide profiles the life and work of public health professional at http://www.nynj-phtc.org/PHNX/res/pfizer-publichealthcareers.pdf

(Posted 10/27/04)

 

Undoing Racism in Public Health: A Blueprint for Action in Urban MCH

Please visit the following url address to read this report. http://webmedia.unmc.edu/community/citymatch/CityMatCHUndoingRacismReport.pdf (Posted 10/27/04)

Report by Louis Sullivan on Recruiting Minority Students into health professions

The executive summary of Sullivan's Commission provides an over view of the report.     (Posted 10/22/04)

 A review of methods for monitoring and measuring social inequality, deprivation and health inequality. Commisioned by SEPHO from the Center for Health Economics at the University of York. (Posted, 09/12/04)

  Almost unnoticed, Latinos are shaping the future of North Carolina. By Michelle Coppedge (Posted, 09/05/04)

  Nation’s Health wins award for health disparities series