April 17, 20159:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.CDC Roybal Campus, Building 191600 Clifton Road NEAtlanta, GA 30329
Topics Include:- the health of African Americans 1915-2015- a vision for eliminating racial and health disparities - from health disparities to health equity- developing public health professionals- effective use of data
Registration: www.tuskegeebioethics.org/HealthEquity
Sponsor: National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare at Tuskegee UniversityCollaborators: Morehouse School of Medicine and Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, CDC
“100 Years of MovingPublic Health Forward”
NatioNal Negro HealtH Week to NatioNal MiNority HealtH MoNtH:
Booker T. Washington, founder of National Negro Health Week (NNHW) and members of the first
National Negro Health Week Committee in 1915
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Sherman A. James, Ph.D.Research Professor of Epidemiology
and African American StudiesEmory University
David Satcher, M.D. Ph.D., FAARP, FACPM,
FACP16th Surgeon General of the United States
Yvonne T. Maddox, Ph.D.Acting Director, National Institute
on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Angela Glover BlackwellFounder and CEO, PolicyLink
Leandris Liburd, Ph.D., MPH. MA
Associate Director, Minority Health and Health Equity, CDC
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