11th Annual Summer Workshop/Course DISPARITIES IN HEALTH IN AMERICA: Working Towards Social Justice Program Chair: Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D. PVAMU College of Nursing: Betty N. Adams, Ph.D., Dean Dorothy I. Height Center for Health Equity & Evaluation Research June 17-22, 2013 Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing 6436 Fannin Street Main Auditorium, 1st Floor, Rm. 134 Houston, Texas 77030 11th Annual Disparities in Health in America Workshop: Celebrating Social Entrepreneurs Working Towards Social Justice June 17–22, 2013 n 1999, Congress provided funds for the creation of the 2002, the DH-CHEER and the Texas Program for Society & Health Center for Research on Minority Health (CRMH) now, the at Rice University created what is now referred to as the Health IDorothy I. Height Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Disparities Education, Awareness, Research and Training Research (DH-CHEER). The uniqueness of the DH-CHEER lies (HDEART) Consortium, now numbering 38 institutions. We are partly in its guiding principles which emphasize the related very interested in working with faculty to address recruitment themes of advancing the scientific research base as it pertains to and retention issues as they pertain to minorities and medically health disparities, involving the affected populations in underserved populations. Several DH-CHEER researchers are determining research priorities, and communicating research members of The University of Texas Graduate School of findings to all stakeholders. Current research within the DH- Biomedical Sciences and participate in a number of graduate CHEER focuses on an array of studies, including and not limited training programs. to childhood obesity and survivorship. To receive updates and other events, please visit our current web The DH-CHEER is also devoted to training graduate students site www.mdanderson.org/CHEER and postdoctoral fellows and providing support to faculty members interested in addressing health disparities issues. In Distinguished Speakers The following are some of the distinguished speakers who have volunteered their time to teach in this workshop. It is a list of persons whom you will rarely see on the same program. Welcome Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D. Greetings from Baylor College of Medicine Director & Professor David J. Hyman, M.D., M.P.H. Dorothy I. Height Center for Health Equity & Professor of Medicine and Family & Community Medicine, Evaluation Research Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Founder, Health Disparities, Awareness, Research & Medicine, Houston, TX. Training (HDEART) Consortium The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Greetings from the HDEART Consortium and the Introduction of our Special Guest Greetings from the Dean of College of Nursing Joseph F. Woelkers, M.A. Prairie View A&M University Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff, Associate Betty N. Adams, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Professor & Dean, Prairie View A&M University UT Health Northeast, Tyler, TX College of Nursing Houston, TX Special Guest The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee, J.D. Greetings from The University of Texas 18th Congressional District, Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Ernest Hawk, M.D., M.P.H. Vice President & Division Head, Division of Cancer Prevention Introduction of Key Note Speaker & Population Sciences S. Leonard Syme, Ph.D. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health (Emeritus) Houston, TX School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley, CA 1 Keynote Speaker Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D., FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, FBA Director: International Institute for Society and Health MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health University College London Michael Marmot has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 30 years. He is Principal Investigator of the Whitehall Studies of British civil servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He chairs the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group on tackling health inequalities. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy. In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities. Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot was a Vice President of the Academia Europaea, and is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organization in 2005: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’. Professor Marmot won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004, gave the Harveian Oration in 2006 and won the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2008. At the request of the British Government, he conducted a review of health inequalities, which published its report ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ in February 2010. He has now been invited by the Regional Director of WHO Euro to conduct a European review of health inequalities. Sir Michael was elected President of the British Medical Association (BMA) 2010-2011. 2 Chair and Co-Chair LOVELL A. JONES, PH.D. BETTY N. ADAMS, PH.D. Director & Professor Professor & Dean Dorothy I. Height Center for Health Equity & Evaluation Research Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing Founder, Health Disparities, Awareness, Houston, TX Research & Training (HDEART) Consortium The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Welcome and Opening Speakers ERNEST HAWK, M.D., M.P.H. JOSEPH F. WOELKERS, M.A. Vice President & Division Head Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences Associate Professor of Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UT Health Northeast DAVID J. HYMAN, M.D., M.P.H. THE HONORABLE SHEILA JACKSON LEE, J.D. 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