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“The Biological Consequences of Chronic Social and Economic Disadvantage” is the title of a free public conference on Nov. 7 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“The Biological Consequences of Chronic Social and Economic Disadvantage” is the title of a free public conference on Nov. 7 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scholars and community service providers will explore the topic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, 150 South Rd.

Panels will discuss recent research on environmental influences on maternal-fetal biology, infants and young children, adolescents and young adults, adults and older adults.

The conference will be the third annual African American Economic Summit, organized by UNC and Duke University. Speakers will include:

  • Steven Zeisel, M.D., Ph.D., Kenan Distinguished Professor of nutrition in UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Heath and director of UNC’s Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis;
  • Lovell Jones, Ph.D., professor and director at the Dorothy Height Center for Minority Health in the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, Houston;
  • Dr. Tamara Coyne-Beasley, director of the N.C. Child Health Research Network and a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the UNC School of Medicine; and
  • Keith Whitfield, Ph.D., 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 contact: Fatimah Jackson, (919) 962-6810, fatimahj@email.unc.edu
Duke contact: Camille Jackson, (919) 681-8052, camille.jackson@duke.edu

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