PLEASE JOIN US - in person or online - for the 18th National Health Equity Research Webcast (formerly known as the Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health).

When?  Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 1:30-4:00pm EDT

Where?  Webcast and Tate-Turner-Kuralt building auditorium - see www.minority.unc.edu

Topic: "Social Determinants of Health Disparities: Moving the Nation to Care about Social Justice"

Featuring:

· Camara P. Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity, Division of Adult and Community Health, NCCDPHP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Ronny A. Bell, Ph.D., M.S., Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and Co-Director, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
• Aida L.M. Giachello, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Moderator: Cedric Bright, M.D., F.A.C.P., Director, Office of Special Programs and Assistant Dean for Admissions, UNC School of Medicine and 112th President, National Medical Association

This free, interactive session will be broadcast with a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of Social Work and can be viewed over the Internet (webcast). Questions will be taken from broadcast participants by email and toll-free telephone.

For more information: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/

To register a group viewing site: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/broadcast/

To register to view on your personal computer: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/broadcast/

To register for the studio audience at the TTK auditorium: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/studio/

Answers to frequently asked questions: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/faq.cfm

Comments from last year's participants: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2012/eval/comments.cfm

The 18^th National Health Equity Research Webcast is presented by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Health Project and UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, in association with the UNC American Indian Center and Norfolk State University Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, a partner in the Commonwealth Public Health Training Center. Please consider becoming a cosponsor or providing an endorsement!

Vic Schoenbach (www.unc.edu/~vschoenb/)
Director, Minority Health Project
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Cookie Newsom
Director of Diversity Education and Research
UNC Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs