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April is National Minority Health Month in America. The National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Morehouse School of Medicine invite you to the Minority Health Month 2016 Public Health Ethics Forum on April 22, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, CDC-Atlanta.
The theme is “Making Latino/Hispanic Health Count: Advancing a Public Health Ethics Framework on Data Collection for Social Justice.” This Public Health Ethics Forum will be an opportunity to explore data-related challenges and accomplishments needed to improve the health of Latinos/Hispanics.
Latinos/Hispanics are the largest racial/ethnic minority population in the U.S. Last year’s CDC Vital Signs Report on Hispanic health used national census and health surveillance data to determine differences between Hispanics and whites, and among Hispanic subgroups. The 2016 Public Health Ethics Forum will continue the conversation on gathering data to address health disparities and related challenges for Latinos/ Hispanics.
The keynote Speaker, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., is the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIMHD is the lead organization at NIH for planning, reviewing, coordinating, and evaluating minority health and health disparities research activities conducted by NIH Institutes and Centers.
This 2016 forum is the second annual symposium following the inaugural commemoration of the 100th anniversary of National Negro Health Week which evolved to become National Minority Health Month. In April 1915, Booker T. Washington, founder of the historic Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University worked with a diverse committee to establish “National Negro Health Week” due to the catastrophic health disparities of former slaves and freed Negros in America. Historically, this public health observance grew into what is today a month-long initiative to advance health equity across the country on behalf of all racial and ethnic minorities. The title of the 2015 Public Health Ethics Forum was “National Negro Health Week to National Minority Health Month: 100 Years of Moving Pubic Health Forward.” In 2017, the Public Health Ethics Forum will focus on health challenges in the Native American population and the 2018 Public Health Ethics Forum will concentrate on health disparities experienced by Asian Americans.
Graduate students pursuing Masters degrees in Public Health are encouraged to present posters focused on Latino/Hispanic health, health disparities, and/or health equity. Click here for more information about presenting posters at the 2016 Public Health Ethics Forum.
There is only in-house space for 250 participants. However, there is also registration for virtual participation from any location around the world.
The CDC Security Office requires a pictured ID which can be a driver’s license or passport but if you are a non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. citizens will need their passport and go through the special CDC clearance via the CDC system which is a 30-day process.
If you are not a U.S. citizen, as soon possible on February 26th and no later than 3:00 p.m. EDT, March 1st, please contact, Carol Dell, Office of Minority Health & Health Equity, cdi1@cdc.gov and or 770.488.8065.
To eat lunch at the forum, registrants attending the April 22nd health forum in-house at the CDC office in Atlanta, please remember you must order and purchase your lunch. Please go online to www.whichwich.com which is located at Emory Point in Atlanta. Order your lunch online and prepay via the online Which Wich Menu. When paying online for your lunch from Which Wich, you must pay close attention to step #7 and you must tag your lunch, Minority Health Month Forum CDC. Your boxed lunch and beverage will be delivered on Friday, 22nd. Please type online, you are ordering for the April 22nd forum at the CDC. Please note, the menu includes two pages. If you have difficulty ordering on line, please dial Which Wich at 404-549-8889 and purchase your meal. To download the Which Wich Online Ordering Guide click here.
