The Dr. William (Bill) Jenkins Health Equity Lecture honors Bill Jenkins PhD, MPH, MS (1945 – 2019) and recognizes his outstanding legacy of innovative public health action, dedication to the elimination of health disparities, and efforts to promote the highest ethical standards in public health practice during his CDC tenure and in academia. The 2021 Dr. William ‘Bill’ Jenkins Health Equity Lecturer is Dr. F. DuBois Bowman, a distinguished researcher whose scholarship focuses on mental health and neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression. He is Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a tenured professor of biostatistics. [Archived webpage courtesy of the
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