May 12, 2010
Recently passed health care reform law and its potential impact upon minority health disparities will be the focus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 16th annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health. The event is scheduled Tuesday, June 8, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in 136 Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building (the School of Social Work auditorium) on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
 
Supporters of the law believe it provides an opportunity to confront inequities in the health care system and among diverse communities and that it will move the United States toward greater health care access, affordability and equity.
 
A panel of three experts, moderated by Howard Lee, executive director of the N.C. Education Cabinet and past chair of the North Carolina Board of Education, will discuss the new law’s prospective impact on minority populations. Presenters include Mayra Alvarez, PhD, alumna of the UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and legislative assistant for health in the office of Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.); Ralph Forquera, director of the Seattle Indian Health Board; and Tony Whitehead, PhD, professor of medical anthropology at the University of Maryland at College Park.
 
A question-and-answer session will follow the presentations. Health care professionals, social workers, policymakers, community activists, educators, students and others are expected to pose questions and hear diverse perspectives on the historic legislation and its ability to close gaps in health, especially those that concern African-Americans, American Indians, and Latino/as.
 
Event sponsors include UNC’s Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs; the UNC Minority Health Project, based in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; and multiple UNC and external organizations. The interactive event is free and open to the public.
 
Since 1995, the Minority Health Project in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has collaborated with various departments on the UNC campus and with other universities to present its annual institute on minority health research. The event has been broadcast via satellite and/or the Internet since 1997 and now reaches hundreds of people each year through the live broadcast and DVDs used in academic classes and staff development seminars.
 
For more information and to register, visit http://minority.unc.edu/institute/2010.
 
 

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.

 

 

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