NASHVILLE, Tenn. The 14th Annual Disparities in Health in America: Working Toward Social Justice Workshop is scheduled for June 20 - 25, in Houston, Texas, at the University of Houston Downtown. It will be held in the Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson Auditorium.
The goal of the Annual Disparities in Health Summer Workshop/Course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of health disparities, to investigate approaches to enhancing health equity and to provide participants with a broad base of knowledge related to a biopsychosocial approach in addressing health disparities in a minority and the medically underserved populations.
Workshop Overview
- Day One - Opening Keynote: Maureen Lichtveld, Health Policy, Health Ethics & Metrics
- Day Two - Hogg Foundation Mental Health and Health Inequities/Health Disparities and Health Policy
- Day Three - Health Disparities, Demographics, Policy & Economics/Human Inequities And Health Communication
- Day Four - Training The Next Generation of Health Disparities & Kellogg Scholars
- Day Five - Human Genomics, Precision Medicine and Disparities: Globally And Locally
- Day Six - Tobacco-Use: Creating and Resolving the Problems of Disparities/ Closing Keynote - Camara Jones
Academic Credit
Academic credit can be arranged to be provided to Health Disparities, Education, Awareness, Research and Training (HDEART) Consortium member students through their home institutions.
For more information, please go to www.hdeartconsortium.org and click on the button in the upper right hand corner.
About the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance
Founded in 1999, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance bridges institutions of Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University. Its mission is to enrich learning and advance clinical research by developing and supporting mutually beneficial partnerships between Meharry Medical College, Vanderbilt University and the communities they serve.
