This blog offers a discussion of the possibilities of visual media and technology for health,education, communication and political action. Periodically, this blog is a collaborative effort with graduate students in public health at Hunter College, some of whom serve as guest bloggers and some of whom create their own blogs.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Health Disparities Symposium @ Columbia U

The First Annual University Research Symposium for Understanding Fundamental Disparities in Health will be held on Monday, April 24,from 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Low Library Rotunda at Columbia University.

Keynote Speakers will be Antonia C. Novello, MD, MPH, DrPH, New YorkState Health Commissioner and 14th Surgeon General of the UnitedStates, and David Satcher, MD, PhD, Interim President, MorehouseSchool of Medicine and 16th Surgeon General of the United States.

The purpose of the symposium is to stimulate thinking about theunderlying themes or fundamental social causes of health disparities and to initiate the development of cross-disciplinary Working Groups that could coalesce and continue after the Symposium.

Advance registration is required. To register,

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