Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities

Lectures and Colloquia

Coordinator, Diabetes Prevention and Control Program New York State Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (3/21/07)
Maureen Spence, MS, RD

Distinguished Professor of Public Health, University of Arkansas
28th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. African Heritage Month Luncheon
(2/6/07)
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Former U.S. Surgeon General

Governmental Roles in Public Health (1/24/07)
Dr. James B. Crucetti, Albany County Commissioner of Health

The Health Disparities Equation: An Ethnomedical Perspective (10/26/06)
José Calderón, M.D. (Project EXPORT, Charles R. Drew University)

Strategies for Preventing Middle School Violence (10/18/06)
Dr. James Griffin, Psychologist (Morehouse Medical School, Pediatrics)

Social Construction of Children’s Exposure to Toxic Pollutants: What Can Be Done? (1/27/06)
Lawrence M. Schell, Director, CEMHD

The Environment of Childhood Poverty (10/28/05)
Gary W. Evans, Professor of Design and Environmental Analysis and of Human Development at Cornell University

Family Ecology & Childhood Obesity (3/4/05)
Kirsten Davison, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, University at Albany

Professional Development & Training Workshops

Grantwriting & You! (7/24/07)
Sara Anderson, MPA (Albany Institute for Research and Education)
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Capital District Counseling Association Spring Program
Workshop C: Student Health Service Information for the School Counselor
(3/21/07)

Spring 2007 Research Colloquium (3/7/07)
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Culture, Language, and Health Disparities (2/21/07)
Wilma Alvarado-Little

Reproductive Healthcare For Low-Income African American Women in a Northeastern Small Town (10/30/06)
Annis Golden

Early Infant Home Visitation Data Analysis (10/12/06)
M&T Brown Bag: Enjuu Lee and Kim Dumont

HIV Antiviral Adherence in Psychology of the Black Experience Class (9/28/06)
Edwina Dorch and Hayward D. Horton

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Disparities in Diabetes in the Communities of Upstate New York
Research Core Faculty (M & T) Brown Bag Presentation: Alba & Strogatz (3/23/06)

Measures of Minority Health Disparities and their determinants: U.S. and the state of New YorkM & T) Brown Bag PresentationLahiri

AIRE Faculty (M & T) Grant Writing Workshop (4/6/06)
Sara Anderson, Jennifer Doherty, Adrienne Bonilla

Preparing Proposals (11/16/05)

Getting Started (10/20/05)

Participatory Action Research Series

Social and Physical Environmental Factors and Cardiovascular Risk: The Healthy Environments Partnership (11/15/05)
Amy Schulz, Associate Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, Research Associate Scientist, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Carmen Stokes, Instructional Assistant
Wayne State University , Detroit Michigan

Capitalize on Community (4/26/05)
Hayward Derrick Horton, Department of Sociology, University at Albany

Conducting Interdisciplinary Occupational Health Disparities Research: Some Lessons Learned (4/18/05)
Craig Slatin, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Doing PAR: Experiences, Pitfalls, and Rewards (2/18/05)
Lawrence Schell, Director of CEMHD; Janine Jurkowski, Department of Health Policy, Administration, and Behavior, University of Albany; Virginia Eubanks, Department of Women’s Studies; Nancy A. Denton, Former-CEMHD Director of Mentoring & Training Core

Other Events and Activities

Community Immersion Project (2/24/06)

Center's Inauguration (5/26/05)

Amsterdam Community Meeting (4/4/05)