The nation’s longest running student-organized conference on minority health issues will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this week.
The nation’s longest running student-organized conference on minority health issues will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this week.
The 32nd annual Minority Health Conference takes place Feb. 25 (Friday), from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education.
The event is hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Minority Student Caucus.
The conference includes small-group sessions on topics such as national, state and local HIV policies; rural health issues, including obesity and poverty; the impact of diabetes on the American Indian community; and the challenges of food deserts, areas where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Bonnie M. Duran, Dr.P.H., associate professor of health services at the University of Washington-Seattle and director of the Center for Indigenous Health Research. Duran’s talk, “The Promise of Health Equity: Advancing the Discussion to Eliminate Disparities in the 21st Century,” will be available as a free, delayed webcast at 2 p.m.
The conference was started by the Minority Student Caucus in 1977. The program highlights health issues of concern to people of color and aims to attract students interested in minority concerns to public health.
Partner events are also being organized by student groups at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and George Washington and Tulane universities.
For more information, including conference and webcast registration details, visit http://bit.ly/eZ9g8S.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, (919) 966-7467, ramona_dubose@unc.edu