Health Disparities Lectures

There are a few of us that are taking the Cultural Competency class, taught by Dr. Doneka Scott and Dr. Paul Ranelli. It is a class that will deal with the wide health disparities that still exist between different groups of people in the U.S. Though these lectures aren't a part of the class, I wanted to make public, or at least as public as this blog is (i.e. I check it from multiple computers, and no one else does) a couple of public lectures that Dr. Scott let us know about.

"The Role of Health Services Research in Closing the Health ServicesGap for Racial and Ethnic Minorities"

The next Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series in Health Disparitieslecture will feature Margarita Alegria, Ph.D., director, Center forMulticultural Mental Health Research; professor, Department ofPsychiatry, Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance.The event will be held on noon-1 p.m., Sept. 21, in Moos Tower1-450G.

“The Elephants in the Room: Social Justice, Public Health, and Health Inequities”

Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health, will present 9:30-10:30 a.m., Sept. 28, at Coffman Union Theater. This event is part of the Carl J. Martinson, M.D., Lectureship in Preventive Medicine, presented by the School of Public Health’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

When Dr. Fecik spoke of getting out there and experiencing things outside of the classroom, I feel he would say that these sessions would complement the list of 10 items that distinguish professionals.