2013 Health Disparities Roundtable

Achieving Health Equity:
Engaging Communities in Health Research, Practice and Policy

Friday, April 26, 2013
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Registration and light breakfast begin at 9 a.m.

Coffman Memorial Union Theater
300 Washington Ave. S.E.
University of Minnesota East Bank Campus

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. 

About the keynote speakers

Byllye Avery, M. Ed.

Byllye Avery is a health care activist and organizer with a particular focus on African American women’s health. She received her M.A. from the University of Florida and her L.H.D. from Bates College. She founded the National Black Women’s Health Project in 1981 and the Avery Institute for Social Change.

Amy Jo Schulz, Ph.D.

Dr. Schulz received her Ph.D. in Sociology and her M.P.H. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on social factors that contribute to health with a particular focus on health disparities and urban communities. She uses CBPR methods in her research, which includes evaluation studies (i.e, community needs assessments, outcome evaluations).

Latino Voices
Twin Cities

Latino Voices is a joint program of “The Family Partnership” (south Minneapolis collaborator of “La Conexion de las Americas” which just dissolved but was the originator of the project) and “Interfaith Coalition on Immigration.” Latino Voices aims to build understanding of systematic forces that have caused the immigration crisis, through a combination of individual stories and fact-based information on U.S. policy and history. We are working to create an environment of tolerance and understanding in which a fair, humane immigration system can be implemented.

Sponsored By

· University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Disparities Work Group, Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health, and Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health (HRSA Grant# 1UB6HP22822-01-00). Rhonda Jones-Webb and Jamie Stang, Co-PI/Directors. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the agencies.

· University of Minnesota Medical School Program in Health Disparities Research

· Minnesota Department of Health Office of Minority and Multicultural Health