Subject: June 3 national interactive broadcast on Men's Health Disparities

Please join us for the 14th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health.

When?   Tuesday, June 3, 2:00-4:00pm EDT
Where?  Webcast, C-band satellite, Tate-Turner-Kuralt building auditorium at UNC-CH, and www.minority.unc.edu

Topic:  "Men's Health Disparities: Implications for Research and Intervention", with:

Claudia R. Baquet, MD,MPH, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Associate Dean for Policy and Planning; Director, Center for Health Disparities

Spero M. Manson, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center; Director, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

Abel Valenzuela, Jr, PhD, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and the Cesar E. Chavez Department for Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty

Frank Y. Wong, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of International Health, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University

Moderator: Stephanie L. Crayton, Media Relations Manager, UNC Health Care

This interactive broadcast will be produced with a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of Social Work and can be viewed over c-band satellite and the Internet (webcast).  Questions will be taken from Remote participants by email and toll-free telephone.  WHEN: 2:00pm-4:00pm EDT Monday, June 3, 2008 (in order to avoid distractions during the broadcast, participants for the studio audience should arrive at TTK auditorium by 1:30pm and be seated by 1:45pm).

For more information:  www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/

Register a satellite downlink site:
     www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/satellite/

Register for the Internet broadcast:
     www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/webcast/
    (if you are registering to show the webcast to a group, please let us know if you would like to be listed on the group viewing page)

Register to participate at the TTK auditorium in the studio audience:
     www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/preregist/

Publicity materials:
     www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/materials/

Participating programs (if your program will be viewing, let us know so we can add you to the list):
     www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/programs.cfm

Answers to frequently asked questions:
     www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/faq.cfm

This year's Videoconference is presented by the UNC School of Public Health Minority Health Project, UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and NC A&T State University Institute for Public Health.  Funding comes from 20 cosponsors (to date), including the NC A&T Institute for Public Health, UNC SPH Dean's Office, UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, The UNC - General Administration, UNC Campus Health Services Counseling and Wellness, American College of Epidemiology, NC Area Health Education Centers program, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cecil Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC Center for Poverty, Work, & Opportunity, UNC Center for Infectious Diseases, UNC Center for AIDS Research, UNC American Indian Center - see www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/cosponsors.cfm for the full list, and please consider becoming a cosponsor.  Personal donations are also welcome - please contact Vic Schoenbach if interested.

Vic Schoenbach (www.unc.edu/~vschoenb/)
Director, Minority Health Project
UNC School of Public Health

Dorothy Browne
Director, Institute for Public Health
NC A&T State University

Cookie Newsom
Director of Diversity Education and Research
UNC Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
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Other announcements:

Videotapes and DVDs of many of our past broadcasts, including the June 2007 broadcast "Does Racism Make Us Sick?" and (soon) the February 2008 broadcast by Dr. Nancy Krieger, are available from the Public Health Foundation (http://bookstore.phf.org/   - click "Minority Health").  20 health disparities-related broadcasts and seminars are available as on-demand webcasts at www.minority.unc.edu/resources/webcasts/

Also, if you or a colleague is concerned with health disparities, works with minority populations, has been in public health for three years and aspires to a leadership role in public health service, Emerging Leaders in Public Health is accepting applications for enrollment, www.publichealthleaders.org
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    Internet interactive broadcasts, on-demand webcasts, event information, 
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