ANNOUNCING the 9th Annual Summer Public Health
Research Videoconference on Minority Health

June 9-13, 2003; 1:30-4:30pm EDT, from Chapel Hill, NC USA
(Begins at 10:30am PDT, 11:30am MDT, 12:30pm CDT)

Information at: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2003/

Videoconference participants ask questions and make comments
via toll-free telephone, fax, and e-mail. Speakers are:

* Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D. (Keynote) - Distinguished Professor
of Health Sciences at the Bouve College of Health Sciences
at Northeastern University

* Michael Bird, M.S.W.,M.P.H. - Executive Director, National
Native American AIDS Prevention Center

* Olivia Carter-Pokras, Ph.D. - Department of Epidemiology and
Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of
Medicine

* Anjani Chandra, Ph.D. - National Center for Health Statistics,
CDC

* Fran T. Close, Ph.D. - Maternal and Child Health & Behavioral
Sciences and Health, Florida A&M University

* Otis Cosby, M.D.,Ph.D. - Director, Environmental and
Occupational Health, Meharry Medical College

* Antonio Estrada, Ph.D. - Director, Mexican American Studies
and Research Center, Univ of Arizona, Tucson

* Yvonne Maddox, Ph.D. - Deputy Director, NIH National Institute
of Child and Human Development

* Charles Rotimi, Ph.D. - Director, The National Human Genome
Center at Howard University

See: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2003/agenda.htm

This year's Videoconference is presented by the University of
North Carolina School of Public Health Minority Health Project
(UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes),
the UNC Center for Health Statistics Research (funded by the
CDC National Center for Health Statistics, the CDC Center for
Infectious Diseases Office of Minority and Women's Health, and
the Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions
(funded by the NIH National Center for Minority Health and
Health Disparities).

Major funding comes from the CDC National Center for HIV, STD,
and TB Prevention in collaboration with the Association of Schools
of Public Health.

This annual Videoconference covers issues and solutions related
to: collecting, analyzing and interpreting data for racial/ethnic
populations; disentangling and assessing relationships among
race, ethnicity, genetics, and socioeconomic status; community-
based research; and partnerships between minority-serving
universities and research universities. Friday's session will feature
two presentations on Health Disparities Research at Historically
Black Colleges and Universities with Public Health Programs.

The School of Public Health is NOT charging a site fee.
To register a Videoconference site, visit: www.minority.unc.edu
_________________________________________________________

ARCHIVED ("on-demand") WEBCASTS AVAILABLE:

Camara P. Jones, M.D.,M.P.H.,Ph.D.
"Confronting Institutional Racism"
5th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture from the
25th Annual UNC School of Public Health Minority Health Conference
February 28, 2003
www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2003/webcast/webregist.cfm
(Order a videocassette: www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2003/tapes/)

Sherman A. James, Ph.D.
"Social Determinants of Health Implications for Intervening
on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities"
4th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture from the
24th Annual UNC School of Public Health Minority Health Conference
March 1, 2002
www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2002/webcast/webregist.cfm

Felicia S. Hodge, Ph.D.
"Recruitment Strategies for Minority Populations"
5th and 7th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference
on Minority Health, June 15, 1999 and June 20, 2001
www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/unc/minorityhealth/jun01
_________________________________________________________


Minority Health Project
UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400
919-843-6934 / Fax 919-966-6735

2003-05-09
______________

www.minority.unc.edu - UNC SPH Minority Health Project
www.epidemiolog.net - Home of the "Evolving Text"
www.acepidemiology.org - American College of Epidemiology

To unsubscribe send one line: unsubscribe click4hp to: [log in to unmask] . To view archives or modify subscription see: http://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/click4hp.html