Racism and Health in the South Talk

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Scholars Camara Jones (Morehouse School of Medicine) and Jonathan Metzl (Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University) will present a public dialogue on racism and health in the South.

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Racism and Health in the South: Camara Jones and Jonathan Metzl in Dialogue

Wednesday, October 5th, 3:00 pm
Clary Theater, Student Success Center, Georgia Tech

This public dialogue brings together two world-leading experts on the impact of racism on health:

  • Camara Jones, President of the American Public Health Association and professor at Morehouse School of Medicine
  • Jonathan Metzl, Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University

The facilitated conversation will explore issues of racism and health in the U.S. South.

Sponsored by the Working Group on Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine, with the support of GT-FIRE.


Co-sponsored by the Structural Racism Seminar Series of Serve-Learn-Sustain.

Free and open to the public

Parking + directions: http://www.ip3.gatech.edu/events/directions.htm
Questions: apollock@gatech.edu

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  • Created By: Amy D'Unger
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  • Created On: Oct 3, 2016 - 12:55pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 5, 2016 - 2:45pm