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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:46:13 -0500
From: Victor J. Schoenbach <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: Announcing the 24th Annual Minority Health Conference,
     with  satellite and internet broadcast, March 1, 2002

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: ASSEMBLING PIECES OF THE PUZZLE

The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health is proud to announce its 24th
Annual Minority Health Conference, Friday, March 1, 2002. The William T.
Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture will be delivered by Sherman A. James, PhD,
Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health at
the University of Michigan.

Dr. James' remarks will be broadcast via satellite and on the Internet at
2:00 pm EST, after which Dr. James will respond to questions and comments
from the satellite and Internet audience until 3:15 pm.

For information about:

* Satellite and Internet broadcasts:
       www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2002/

* Dr. Sherman James and the Keynote Lecture:
       www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2002/keynote.htm

* Attending the Conference in person in Chapel Hill or
   displaying an exhibit for your organization
       www.sph.unc.edu/oce/mhc/  (available 12/3)

* Submitting an abstract for presentation as a poster
    (submission deadline February 1, 2002)
       www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2002/abstracts/

In conjunction with the Conference, the School will hold its Recruitment
Event Affecting CHange (REACH) on February 28 to inform ethnic minorities
about opportunities for graduate studies with the School of Public Health
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For information,
please send e-mail to [log in to unmask]

Please share this announcement with your colleagues. We hope you can join
us.

Other upcoming conferences:

* 22nd Annual Zollicoffer Lecture -" The Value of Diversity in Academic
Medicine", Marcus L. Martin, MD, Friday, February 15, 2002, 4:00 p.m.,
UNC-CH School of Medicine

* 2002 Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on
Minority Health, June 17-21, 2001
  - more information soon at www.minority.unc.edu/institute/

For additional events at UNC and nationally, visit
www.minority.unc.edu/events/

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