33rd Annual Minority Health Conference

The Minority Student Caucus, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, presents its 33rd Annual Minority Health Conference, including the 14th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Ana V. Diez-Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, professor and director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan. Dr. Diez-Roux's lecture will be broadcast as a free, interactive webcast.

When: Friday, February 24, 2012, 8:00am-4:30pm (broadcast at 2:00-3:30pm EST).

Where: UNC William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, Chapel Hill, NC and (Keynote only) on the web.

Conference theme: "Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity"

Partner conferences are being organized by student organizations at several universities: www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2012/partnerconferences/ Let us know if you'd like to organize a partner conference.

Dr. Diez-Roux's keynote will kick off an exciting day, with sessions and speakers including presentations by Nina Wallerstein, Professor and Director of the Center for Participatory Research, Betina Jean-Louis from the Harlem Children's Zone, and Jane Perkins, Legal Director of the National Health Law Program.

Register online at http://studentorgs.unc.edu/msc/index.php/conference/conference-2012/regi... for the conference (registration fee $30-$80) or the broadcast (no fee).