Zeisel to speak at African-American Economic Summit
October 18, 2011 | |
Steven Zeisel, MD, PhD, will be one of four keynote speakers at a free public conference, “The Biological Consequences of Chronic Social and Economic Disadvantage,” to be held Nov. 7 as part of the third annual African-American Economic Summit, organized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Zeisel is Kenan Distinguished Professor of nutrition in UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of UNC’s Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis, N.C.
Scholars and community service providers will explore the conference topic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, at 150 South Rd. on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill.
Panels will discuss recent research on environmental influences on maternal-fetal biology, infants and young children, adolescents and young adults, adults and older adults.
Other speakers include Lovell Jones, PhD, professor and director at the Dorothy Height Center for Minority Health in the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas at Houston; Dr. Tamara Coyne-Beasley, director of the N.C. Child Health Research Network and professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the UNC School of Medicine; and Keith Whitfield, PhD, professor and director of both the developmental division of the psychology and neurosciences department and the Center on Bio-behavioral and Social Aspects of Health Disparities at Duke.
UNC sponsors are the anthropology department in the College of Arts and Sciences; the Nutrition Research Institute; the maternal and child health department in the Gillings School of Global Public Heath; and the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Duke’s sponsor is the Research Network of Social and Ethnic Inequalities.
To register, send name and contact information to aaes3conference@unc.edu or aaes3conference@yahoo.com. For more information, contact Fatimah Jackson at (919) 843-9920 or fatimahj@email.unc.edu.
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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