Health Disparities Working Group Forum

Mobilizing Communities of Color to Promote Healthy Living and Eating

This event took place on April 24, 2008

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• Welcome and Opening Remarks
  John R. Finnegan, Jr. and Rhonda Jones-Webb
• Mobilizing Communities to Promote Healthy Living and Eating (part one)
  Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH
• Mobilizing Communities to Promote Healthy Living and Eating (Instant Recess video)
  Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH
• Mobilizing Communities to Promote Healthy Living and Eating (part two)
  Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH
• Panel Response
  Introduced and Moderated by Mary Story
• Question and Answer
  Closing Remarks
  Debra Olson

Main Speaker

Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Health Services and Co-Director of the Center to Eliminate Health Disparities at the UCLA, School of Public Health. Dr. Yancey's primary research interests are in chronic disease prevention and adolescent health promotion among communities of color. She returned to academia full-time in 2001 after five years in public health practice, first as Director of Public Health for the city of Richmond, VA, and, until recently, as Director of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, at the Los
Angeles County Department of Health Services. Dr. Yancey has authored more than 75 scientific publications, including briefs, book chapters, health promotion videos, and among those, more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Program Objectives

• Describe ways to engage communities and health professionals in issues related to healthy living and eating in communities of color.
• Describe cutting edge strategies to promote healthy living and eating in communities of color.
• Describe practical tools that can be used by community-based organizations to promote healthy living and eating in communities of color.

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.

Debra Olson, DNP, MPH, RN, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice Education, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Sponsored by

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.