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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The Healthy Places Research Group (HPRG) meets monthly to facilitate discussion and networking among the many disciplines working to create healthy places and improve the relationship between health and the built environment. This month will highlight the relationship between health and equity and will feature two guest speakers, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D., M.P.H., PhD; and Andrea Young, J.D.
Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. is research director on social determinants of health andequity in the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impact of racism on the health and wellbeing of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism). As a methodologist, she has developed new ways for comparing full distributions of data (rather than means or proportions) in order to investigate population-level risk factors and propose population-level interventions. As a social epidemiologist, her work on race-associated differences in health outcomes goes beyond documenting those differences to vigorously investigating the structural causes of the differences. As a teacher, her allegories on race and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. Andrea Young, JD, is an attorney, author and Professor of Practice who teaches Public Policy Leadership and leads the multi-faceted Making of Modern Atlanta Project, that includes a documentary film, book, archive and community engagement. Her teaching and research interests include: the political and economic history of Atlanta; the relevance of the Atlanta experience to other cities; the meaning of the legacy of Martin Luther King for twenty-first century leaders; leadership and public policy and leadership and social change. Young was the founding executive director of the Andrew Young Foundation; served as executive producer of documentary specials for television; and worked with local, national and international partners to promote global health, community leadership and sustainability, and the extension of civil and human rights.