3199.0 Borders within Borders, Cultural Differences in Health Outcomes

Monday, October 27, 2008: 12:30 PM
Oral
Organizer:
Shakirudeen Amuwo Amuwo, MPH
Moderator:
George Smith, MPH

12:30 PM
Using “Unnatural Causes” to raise awareness and stimulate dialogue and action about racial and ethnic health disparities-The Arkansas Story
Creshelle R. Nash, MD, MPH, M. Kate Stewart, MD, MPH, S. Dianne Colley, MPH, Carla C. Sparks, BS, Hosea W. Long, MA, Angelinq Levitskaya, Terry DuBose and Willa B. Sanders, MPA
12:45 PM
Development of a Pipeline Project to Increase Student Led Research Projects in Health Disparities
Dayna Campbell, MS, PhD(c), Bankole A. Olatosi, MPH, PhD, Jessica D. Bellinger, PhD, MPH, Crystal Piper, MPH, MHA, PhD, Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS, Saundra Glover, MBA, PhD and Brandi Wright, MPH
     
1:00 PM
Sustaining mechanisms used in a CBPR project working with a disadvantaged minority neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio
Kendra L. Daniel, MGS, Peter J. Whitt, MSW, LSW, Lena L. Grafton, MPH, CHES and Carla L. Carten, PhD
     
1:15 PM
Reducing health disparities by increasing breastfeeding rates for African-American infants
Gayle Hoxter, MPH, RD and Laurie Haessly, MA, RD, IBCLC
     
1:30 PM
Documented Risk Factors and Less Documented Cultural Factors Contributing to African Americans Stroke in a Rural Mississippi County
Mohammad Shahbazi, PhD, MPH, CHES, Marinelle Payton, MD, PhD, MPH, MS and Sherry S. Gibson, BS, MPH

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Organized by: Black Caucus of Health Workers
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus

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