The 3rd Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Mental Health
Saturday, February 9, 2008
8:30AM – 6:30PM
New York University Medical Center
550 First Avenue
New York City
Conference Fee: $50 General, $20 Students
The 3rd Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Mental Health is an interdisciplinary meeting that brings together physicians, social workers, psychologists, public health professionals and policy makers to discuss the status of mental health among peoples of the African Diaspora. The one-day conference will provide an opportunity for a better understanding of mental health across the demographic cross-section of peoples of African descent through a comprehensive discourse of the social, cultural, medical and demographic framework that shapes mental health policy, diagnosis and treatment of peoples of African Descent.
The conference seeks to explore disparities in mental health among
the black population and provide a forum for sharing best practices
that would close the gap of inequities in mental health. Over 250 participants
are expected and confirmed speakers include Deborah Prothrow-Stith,
MD, Harvard University School of Public Health; Hugh Hendrie, MD, Indiana
University School of Medicine; Hugh Butts, MD, Author, Racism &
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; David Henderson, MD, Associate Professor
of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Jacqueline Mattis, PhD, New
York University; Kirby Randolph, PhD, Kansas Medical School; Ernest
Marquez, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health; and Rosemonde Pierre-Louis,
Manhattan Borough Deputy President.
Click here to pre-register for CHAD 2008
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Project HOPE's FIRST ANNUAL 5k FOR AFRICA
Sunday June 24, 2007 at 9:00 am
Registration begins at 7:30 am in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 5K Run/Walk
and 1 mile Family Fun Run--Join us for Food, Music, and Inspiration!
Co-organized by NYU School of Medicine student Nick Gavin, this year¹s
event supports community-based entrepreneurship in Lilongwe, Malawi,
a central African country devastated by HIV/AIDS.
To register or for more information visit http://www.5kforafrica.org.
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Disparities
Monday April 30, 2007 at 6:00 pm
NYU Medical Center, 1st Floor Smilow Seminar Room
SPEAKER: Harold P. Freeman, M.D.
Senior Advisor to the Director, National Cancer Institute President,
Founder and Medical Director, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and
Prevention
Harold P. Freeman, M.D., is senior advisor to the director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, Maryland. He is directly responsible for strategies to achieve NCI¹s 2015 goal to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer in minority and underserved communities. Dr. Freeman is also president, founder, and medical director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York, New York. He is a professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, also in New York. For twenty five years (19741999), Dr. Freeman was director of surgery at Harlem Hospital in New York and, for a two year period ending in 2001, Dr. Freeman served as the president and CEO of North General Hospital in New York.