12th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference to be broadcast June 26, 28

The June 26 session will feature a panel discussion about race-specific medicine. Stephanie L. Crayton, Media Relations Manager in UNC Health Care’s Office of Public Affairs and Marketing, will moderate.

The three panelists will be:

• Joseph L. Graves, PhD, Professor of Biology and Dean of University Studies at North Carolina A&T State University
• Pilar Ossorio, PhD, JD, Associate Professor of Law and Medical Ethics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
• Morris W. Foster, MPhil, PhD, Associate Professor and currently Acting Chair of the University of Oklahoma’s Anthropology Department.

Wednesday’s session, moderated by Allan S. Noonan, MD, MPH, Dean of Morgan State University’s School of Public Health and Policy, will focus on tobacco use prevention and cessation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The panelists will be:

• Adrienne Y. Witherspoon, Tobacco Project Coordinator at the North Carolina A&T State University School of Nursing
• Michelle Cotton Laws, Project Evaluator for the On the Ground Smoking Cessation & Prevention Project at North Carolina Central University
• Sharon Fryar Height, Project Director at the On the Ground Smoking Cessation & Prevention Project at Bennett College for Women
• Helen Lettlow, DrPH, Assistant Vice President, American Legacy Foundation.

The videoconference will be accessible to satellite down-link facilities across the country for on-site viewing by an audience. Those interested in receiving the broadcast at their facility should visit www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2006/satellite/ for instructions and agreement terms.

Persons interested in attending the discussion at Cobb Theatre or viewing the videoconference by satellite broadcast or webcast should complete an online pre-registration at www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2006/preregist/.

For directions to the Sonja Haynes Stone Center, parking and transit information, and a list of currently registered down-link facilities nationwide where the broadcast will be shown, visit www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2006/atunc.cfm.

The 12th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health is presented by the Minority Health Project, part of the UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes (ECHO), and the Morgan State University Center for Health Disparities Solutions.

The Videoconference is made possible by our lead sponsor, the CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, in collaboration with the Association of Schools of Public Health and by our major co-sponsors, the UNC-CH School of Public Health Dean’s Office and the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Morgan State University. Additional co-sponsors include the American College of Epidemiology, the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and the UNC-CH Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.

The session on Race-Specific Medicine is co-sponsored by the UNC-CH Institute of African American Research and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, ELSI Center Planning Grant, and is presented in partnership with the Emerging Leaders in Public Health Fellowship program, the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, and the UNC-SPH Health Disparities Certificate Program.

The session on Tobacco Prevention Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is made possible through a co-sponsorship from the American Legacy Foundation. Those interested in learning more information about this event should contact the Minority Health Project of the School of Public Health at 919-966-7436 or Minority_Health@unc.edu, or by visiting www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2006/.

For further information please contact Ramona DuBose either by phone at 919-966-7467 or by e-mail at ramona_dubose@unc.edu.