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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Executive Director Dr. Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI recently appeared on NBC15 News in Madison, Wis., to promote community-based efforts to address Alzheimer's Disease in the African-American community. "African Americans are two to three times more likely than whites to have Alzheimer's Disease, and often they are diagnosed later," she said. The full interview is below:  

Photo by Matt Schor HNLC Co-Chair and MVA Director of Planning and Community Engagement Elisa Friedman, MS (left) and HNLC Chair Freida Outlaw address members of the Nashville Metro Council.  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will hold a joint seminar titled "Address Social Determinants of Cancer Health Disparities Using a Community-Based Participatory Approach" on Thursday, Feb. 25, at noon. Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD will be the featured speaker.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Kimberly Jackson, the founder and sole proprietor of HIDE (Health Impacts of Degraded Environments), has always been interested in public policy and urban planning. “HIDE was directly the result of my masters work at Lipscomb Academy,” Jackson recalled.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Meharry Medical College will hold a Professional Development Series titled "Careers in Public Health" on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy. Shanell L. McGoy, PhD, MPH will be the featured speaker. Please RSVP by Feb. 16 at meharryhealthpolicy@mmc.edu. For more information, please visit www.meharryhealthpolicy.org.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, the Department of Internal Medicine and P. Renee Brown Obi, M.D.’84 will present the Todd - Brown Heritage Lecture Medical Grand Rounds at the Kresge Learning Resource Center from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. The lecture, titled “JNC-8 vs SPRINT: What Should Be the Blood Pressure Target in Black Hypertensive Patients?” will be held in Lecture Hall 1.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Community Research Partners (CRP) will present "Hotels Shouldn't Hurt: A Preliminary Report on the Health and Human Rights Crisis in Nashville Hospitality" March 4 from 8:30 - 10 a.m. 

​NASHVILLE, Tenn. Chante Stubbs, MPH, CPH recently attended the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators in Health Professions in Boston, Mass. The program was comprised of a series of courses and workshops aimed at enhancing the professional development of educators in the health professions. It was built around six major themes:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jacquelyn Favours, who recently joined the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance as Program Coordinator II, hopes to draw on her experience in data collection and analysis to further community-based research in Nashville.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Douglas Landsittel, PhD addressed researchers at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance on Wednesday, Jan. 27, and discussed "Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)." Dr. Landsittel, who traveled from the University of Pittsburgh, laid out the general concepts of PCOR and CER, the methods they use and educational efforts taking place on their behalf.