Health Disparities Working Group Forum

Relevant Risk, Revolution and Revisiting Rose – Causes of Population Levels and Social Inequalities in Health

This event took place on March 23, 2007.

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• Welcome and Opening Remarks
  John R. Finnegan, Jr. and Rhonda Jones-Webb
• Relevant Risk, Revolution and Revisiting Rose - Reflections on 25 Years of Epidemiological Evidence on the Causes of Population Levels and Social Inequalities in Health
  John W. Lynch
• Panel Response
  Introduced and Moderated by Kathleen Thiede Call

Program Objectives

• Describe appropriate methods for measuring population health and health inequalities.
• Describe the relationship between risk factors and social inequalities in coronary heart disease.
• Describe population health strategies that achieve the largest population health benefit.

Speakers

Kathleen Thiede Call, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, and Co-Chair, Health Disparities Work Group, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

John R. Finnegan, Jr. PhD, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

Rhonda Jones-Webb, DrPH, Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, and Co-Chair, Health Disparities Work Group, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

John W. Lynch, Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatstics and Occupational Health and Canada Research Chair of Population Health at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Prior to joining the faculty at McGill University, Dr. Lynch was Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. His research interests include measurement of population health and health inequalities; social determinants of population health and health inequalities; life course processes at the individual and population level; family resources and child health; and international comparisons. Dr. Lynch was trained in Australia and the United States and received his PhD in epidemiology from the University of California-Berkley.

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University of Minnesota School of Public Health:
Dean’s Office
Health Disparities Work Group
Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health

For public health professionals, students and faculty, physicians, nurses, health educators, counselors and others from the campus and practice community committed to reducing health disparities.