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Presentations (in chronological order)
DAY ONE:
 

Welcome and Setting the Stage

  Ronald P. Abeles, PhD, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH
  Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts, PhD, MSW, National Cancer Institute, NIH
   
  Remarks from NIH Leadership
  Raynard S. Kington, MD, PhD, Deputy Director, NIH
  John Ruffin, PhD, Director, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH
   
 

The Role of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at NIH
David B. Abrams, PhD, Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH

   
  The Elephants in the Room: Social Justice, Social Science, and Health Inequities
Nancy Krieger, PhD, Harvard University
   
  Discussion (morning session)
   
  Health Disparities: Monitoring, Mechanism, and Meaning
Nancy Adler, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

 

   
  Discussion (late-morning session)
   
  Public Policy and Health - Panel 1 Introduction: Social and Economic Policies Impacting Health
Moderator: Marguerite Ro, DrPH, APIAHF
   
  Behavioral and Social Science Evidence for Reducing Health Disparities Through Policy
David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
   
  Effects of Employment Policies on Health and Health Disparities
Jody Heymann, PhD, MD, McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy
   
  Welfare Reform and Health: Do Welfare and Other Income
Transfer Policies Affect Health Disparities?

Hilary W. Hoynes, PhD, University of California, Davis
   
  Discussion (afternoon session)
   
  Effects of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program on Health Disparities
Janet Currie, PhD, Columbia University
   
  The Role of Insurance Coverage in Reducing Health Disparities: Policy Challenges and Opportunities
Marsha Lillie-Blanton, DrPH, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
   
  Can Public Policies Affect Health and Health Disparities?
Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, RAND Corporation, Washington, DC
   
  Discussion (late-afternoon session)
     
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DAY TWO:
  Prevention of Disease and Disability - Panel 1 Introduction:
Moderator: David T. Takeuchi, PhD, University of Washington
   
  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome among American Indians, Italians,
and South Africans: Disparate Risks, Different Prevalence,
and Prevention

Philip A. May, PhD, The University of New Mexico
   
  Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Inner-City
Mexican- and African-American Women

Rochelle Shain, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center
   
  Asthma in Inner City Populations
Meyer Kattan, MD, CM, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City
   
  Discussion (day two - morning session)
   
  Church-Based Health Promotion Programs
Ken Resnicow, PhD, University of Michigan
   
  Cancer Prevention in Latino Populations
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD, University of California, San Francisco
   
  Fidelity and Adaptation Challenges in Replication and
Going to Scale

Julie Solomon, PhD, Sociometrics Corporation, Los Altos, CA
   
  Discussion (day two - late-morning session)
   
  Health Care - Panel 1 Introduction: Cultural Influences
Moderator: Peter Messeri, PhD, Columbia University
   
  Ethnographic and Qualitative Approaches to the Role of
Culture in Disparities Research

Gay Becker, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
   
  Cultural Influences as the Structure and Content of Social
Networks, Large and Small

Bernice A. Pescosolido, PhD, Indiana University
   
  Health Disparities Due to the Emergence of Genetic
Medicine: Perspectives from Native American and African
American Communities

Morris W. Foster, PhD, University of Oklahoma
   
  Discussion (afternoon session)
   
  Health Care - Panel 2 Introduction: Social Structural and Economic Influences
Moderator: Lee Hargraves, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Medical Center
   
  Social Structural and Economic Influences on Health Care
Disparities: 1 1/2 Centuries of Forgetting and Remembering

Howard Waitzkin, PhD, MD, University of New Mexico
   
  Socio-cultural Frameworks for Understanding Disparities in
Mental Health Service Provision

Margarita Alegria, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance
   
  Impact of Provider Continuity on Outcomes, Intersection
of Ethnicity and Underserved Populations

Llewellyn J. Cornelius, PhD, LCSW, University of Maryland
   
  Discussion (late-afternoon session)
   
  Capstone Presentation
James S. Jackson, PhD, University of Michigan
     
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