From:
Minority_Health@unc.edu [mailto:Minority_Health@unc.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 11:07 AM
To: Minority Health Project announcements
Subject: [mhpannounce] Coming Feb 26: Interactive
Webcast from the UNC Minority Student Caucus' 37th
Annual Minority Health Conference
Please join us for the interactive
webcast of the 18th Annual William T. Small, Jr.
Keynote Lecture
from the 37th Annual Minority
Health Conference
presented by the Minority Student Caucus, UNC Gillings
School of Global Public Health.
In
Solidarity: The Role of Public Health in Social Justice
Founded in
1977, the Minority Health Conference aims to raise awareness
regarding health disparities and mobilize students,
academics, researchers, and community members to take action
for change. This year's theme explores the intersection of
public health and social justice. The conference will
highlight opportunities for public health researchers and
practitioners and social justice advocates to learn from
each other and identify best practices for prioritizing
minority health and fostering inclusive strategies for
change.
The
18th annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote
Lecture
will be
presented by Crystallee Crain., Ph.D., educator, small business owner,
and advocate for human rights. Although the conference is
full, you can still hear Dr. Crain’s lecture in an interactive
webcast, with live captioning and questions via email,
Facebook, and Twitter.
Information about Dr. Crain and the conference,
including a 3-minute video history, are at
minorityhealth.web.unc.edu
Interactive webcast Friday,
February 26, 2016, 2:00-3:30pm EST.
Please
register for the webcast at
http://minorityhealth.web.unc.edu/conference/keynote-webcast/
The webcast will be recorded. Advance registration is
recommended.
Interested
in hosting a partner conference?
Partner
conferences arrange a group viewing with additional
activities such as a discussion, speakers’ panel, or
additional presentations at their school or organization.
For information about partner conferences, write to mhc.broadcast@gmail.com
or visit the Webcast
webpage.
Please share this announcement with your colleagues and
friends!
Best regards,
Vic Schoenbach, http://go.unc.edu/vjs
Visit my “virtual library” on social
justice and equality,
http://go.unc.edu/sjae
Featured events in 2016:
February 19, 2016: Inaugural Diversity in Stem
Conference hosted by UNC Diversity and Multicultural
Affairs, in collaboration with the Chancellor’s Science
Scholars Program and the Initiative for Maximizing Student
Diversity.
http://diversity.unc.edu/spring-diversity-experience-to-discuss-practices-in-stem/?+2015+Diversity+in+the+News+-+UNC
February 26, 2016: Interactive webcast
by Crystallee Crain from the
37th Annual Minority Health Conference (see
above),
http://go.unc.edu/mhc
February 27, 2016: 20th
Annual UNC Law Conference on Race, Class, Gender and
Ethnicity,
Cruel and Unusual: How the United States Punishes
Persons with Mental Illness. More information at
http://studentorgs.law.unc.edu/crcge/
June 7,
2016: 22nd National Health Equity Research Webcast,
topic:
TBA (1:30-4:00pm ET. More information soon, at
http://go.unc.edu/nherw)
June 21,
2016: American College of Epidemiology (free) 2016
Minority Affairs Committee Annual Workshop,
Closing the US Health Disparities Gap: An International
and National Epidemiological Perspective at the
Epidemiology Congress of the Americas, Miami FL.
(8:30am-12:30pm ET. More information soon, at
http://www.acepidemiology.org/)
Visit
www.minority.unc.edu
for archived webcasts from the
annual Minority Health
Conference and the National Health Equity Research Webcast,
including presentations by Pamela Jumper Thurman, Frank
Perez, Leon Andrews Jr., William Darity, Jr., Anthony
Peguero, Melina Healey, Gary Flowers, Gail Christopher,
Sarah Kastelic, Portia Kennel, Yvette Sanchez Fuentes,
Victor Schoenbach, Leandris Liburd, Brian Smedley, Camara
Jones, Ronny Bell, Aida Giachello, Nina Wallerstein, Ana
Diez Roux, Krista Perreira, Jeffrey Henderson, Bonnie Duran,
Mayra Alvarez, Ralph Forquera, Tony Whitehead, Robert
Fullilove, Reginald Weaver, Dina Castro, Nicholas
Freudenberg, Lillian Sparks, Barbara Wallace, Claudia
Baquet, Spero Manson, Abel Valenzuela, Frank Wong, Nancy
Krieger, Karina Walters, Gilbert Gee, Luisa Borrell, David
Williams, Joseph Graves, Jr., Michael Bird, and many others.
Highly recommended:
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/san-francisco-schools-transformed-power-meditation-n276301
(3 min.)
Please join me in
supporting the
David
Lynch Foundation,
www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
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