"Collaborative Research with Communities: Value Added and Challenges Faced", Meredith Minkler, Dr.P.H., Professor, Health and Social Behavior, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. (The 8th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture). [Purchase a videotape] [Abstract and slides] [Bio]

"Health Disparities: from Civil Rights to Human Rights" - Special opening session of the 11th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health. Panel discussion at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (SCBCH), with

• Hon. Melvin L. Watt, U.S. House of Representatives and Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) (bio)
• Gem Daus, MA (Director of Policy, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum) (website) (bio)
• Gary Grant (Executive Director, Concerned Citizens of Tillery [NC]) (website) (bio)
• Carole Anne Heart (Executive Director, Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board) (website) (bio)
• Allan Noonan, MD, MPH (Director, Public Health Program, Morgan State University) (website) (bio)
• Rosa Pérez Perdomo, M.D.,M.P.H.,Ph.D., Secretary of Health, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (website) (bio)

The panel was moderated by Stephanie L. Crayton, Media Relations Manager, Office of Public Affairs and Marketing, UNC Health Care (bio) [Purchase a videotape]

"Health and the Built Environment: The Effects of Where We Live, Work and Play", Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning & Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Buffalo, New York (The 7th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture). [Purchase a videotape]

Congressional Minority Caucus Panel Session from the 10th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute on Minority Health.. [Readings] [Purchase a videotape (Click on “Minority Health”)]

Panel:

• Hon. Donna M. Christensen & Hon. Madeleine Bordallo

Reactors:

• Bill Jenkins, Ph.D, M.P.H, Jennie R. Joe, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A, Annice Eu-Shin Kim, M.P.H, & Fernando Wagner, Sc.D.

“Sorting Out the Connections Between the Built Environment and Health: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating Pathways and Planning Healthy Cities”, Mary E. Northridge, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Public Health (The 6th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture). [Slides & Readings] [Bio] [Purchase a videotape]

“Research towards the Elimination of Health Disparities”, Yvonne T. Maddox, Ph.D., Deputy Director, NIH National Institute of Child and Human Development (9th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health). [Abstract] [Slides] [Bio]

“Roots of American Indian/Alaska Native: Indigenous Health Disparities”, Michael Bird, M.S.W., M.P.H, Executive Director, National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, Oakland, CA. [Abstract] [Bio]

“Innovations in HIV Prevention with Latina and African American Women at High Risk”, Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences at the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University (9th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health). [Abstract] [Slides] [Bio]

“Genomic Definition of Self and Group Identity: Implications for Biomedical Research”, Charles N. Rotimi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Director of Genetic Epidemiology, National Human Genome Center at Howard University in the College of Medicine. [Abstract] [Slides] [Bio]

“Confronting Institutional Racism”, Camara P. Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Research Director on Social Determinants of Health, CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (5th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, 25th Annual UNC School of Public Health Minority Health Conference). [Bio] [Purchase a videotape]

 

“Social Determinants of Health: Implications for Intervening on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities”, Sherman A. James, Ph.D., John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan, and Founding Director, University of Michigan School of Public Health. [Slides] [Bio] [Purchase a videotape]

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