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CEHD Launch - Tuesday, October 25, 2005
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UCLA School of Public Health
Center to Eliminate Health Disparities Symposium
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Covel Commons (3rd Floor), North Promenade of the Grand Horizon Room
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Evening Performance: A Right To Care
6:00 pm - 7:00pm
In celebration of the launch of The School of Public Health Center to
Eliminate Health Disparities...
A Right to Care: Sarah Jones, Obie Award winning playwright, actor,
and poet, presented her one-woman performance piece exploring the ways in
which ethnic, racial, and economic health disparities impact people’s
daily lives.
To learn more about Sarah Jones, please
visit her website.
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and Welcome were given by: |
Linda Rosenstock, M.D.,
M.P.H.
Dean, UCLA School of Public Health
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Roshan Bastani, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Co-Director, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities
UCLA School of Public Health
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Speakers included: |
Introduction
to Health Disparities
in Los Angeles
Antronette Yancey, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities
UCLA School of Public Health
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Framing Race in the Eye of the Storm
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor, Community Partnerships
Professor of Political Science, UCLA
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Experiences of Post-Katrina
New Orleans:
The LA County Perspective
Jonathan Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Professor
UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Director of Public Health and Health Officer
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
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Effects of the Built Environment
Richard Jackson, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Former Public Health Officer and Chief Deputy Director
California Department of Health Services
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Health Disparities: The
Latino Perspective
Alex Ortega, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UCLA School of Public Health
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RISK is Just a 4-Letter Word
Steven J. Rottman, M.D.
Professor
Director, Center for Public Health and Disasters
UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine
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Discussants Included: |
E. Richard Brown, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Center for Health Policy Research
UCLA School of Public Health
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Steven P. Wallace, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Director, Center for Health Policy Research
UCLA School of Public Health
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