Center for Minority Health

Cultural Confidence Events

Appeal

Location: Herberman Conference Center (Next to Shadyside Hospital)
UPMC Cancer Pavillion, Second Floor - 5230 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232

Who should attend: Physicians, Nurses, social workers, pharmacists, chaplains & clergy, psychologists, counselors, hospitals & hospice administrators, family caregivers and other caring for African Americans at life's end.

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Unity Banquet

Office of Multicultural Affairs
Banquet and Scholarship Benefit
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Prolific Author, Scholar,
Public Intellectual, Ordained Minister
Media Commentator & Talk Radio Host.
Time: 6:00 p.m
Location: Power Center Ballroom
Duquesne University

Please plan to join us at this special event to honor Duquesne University’s multicultural students for their academic accomplishments and leadership abilities.
Invitation to follow.

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“Health Care: Solutions Without Borders” - 2008 Anne C. Sonis Memorial Lecture

Presented by:
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
President
The Commonwealth Fund
Time: Noon
Location: S120 Biomedical Sciences Tower (BST)
Reception to follow in Room S100A BST

Dr. Karen Davis is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues. Dr. Davis is a nationally recognized economist, with a distinguished career in public policy and research. Before joining the Fund, she served as chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she also held an appointment as professor of economics. She served as deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services from 1977–1980, and was the first woman to head a U.S. Public Health Service agency.

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”Parental Refusal of Vaccinations”

Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium**
Time: 2:15-4:00 p.m.
Location: 300 Medical Arts Building 

“Making Medical Decisions for Children: Is the Best Interest Standard Really Best?”

Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: 113 School of Law 

“Ashley Revisited: Reflections of Clinical Ethics”

Annual Donald N. Medearis Lecture
Visiting Professor – Department of Pediatrics and Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Department of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle)
Time: 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Location: Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Auditorium 

National Minority Health Month

Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Kingsley Association (East Liberty)
6435 Frankstown Ave
East Liberty (Pittsburgh), PA 15208

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Health risk assessment

Get your health risk assessments
Time: 9am – 4pm
Location: Kingsley Association – 3rd Floor
6435 Frankstown Ave
East Liberty (Pittsburgh), PA 15208

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"The Forced Realignment from Above and Below: State Repression of Black Elected Officials and Voters in Alabama, 1981-2000"

G. Derek Musgrove, CAUSE postdoctoral fellow, 2007-2008; Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of the District of Columbia
Receptions @ 4:30PM
Talks/Discussions @ 5PM

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"The Experiences of Black Fathers with Low Incomes"

Ronald B. Mincy
Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice at Columbia University
Time: Noon
Location: Cathedral of Learning room 2017
University of Pittsburgh
Registration for the lecture is not required and lunch will be provided.

Faculty members and doctoral students are invited to meet with Dr. Mincy earlier that day to discuss research interests and methods. The meeting will be from 10.00 to 11.00 am in CL 2309.

Seating for this meeting is limited; RSVP to Michael Newman at mnewman@pitt.edu by the end of the day on Monday, April 7 if you wish to attend.

Dr. Mincy joined the School of Social Work faculty in 2001. He teaches Introduction to Social Welfare Policy and Program Evaluation. He came to the University from the Ford Foundation where he served as a senior program officer and worked on such issues as improving U.S. social welfare policies for low-income fathers, especially child support, and workforce development policies; he also served on the Clinton Administration's Welfare Reform Task Force.

He is a member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy, Chicago, IL. He is also an advisory board member for the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan; Technical Work Group for the Building Strong Families and Community Healthy Marriage Initiatives; the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative; Transition to Fatherhood, Cornell University; the National Fatherhood Leadership Group; the Longitudinal Evaluation of the Harlem Children's Zone; The Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts; and the National Partnership for Community Leadership. Dr. Mincy is also a former member of the Council, National Institute of Child and Human Development and the Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, co-chair of the Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce, a Board Member of the Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families.

Dr. Mincy is a co-principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Survey, a faculty member of the Columbia University Population Center, and the director of the School of Social Work's Center for Research on Fathers, Children, and Family Well-being.

Town Hall Meeting to screen and discuss “Unnatural Causes”

Time: 5:30-8:30 pm
Location: WQED
4802 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213

Join the discussion and learn what you can do to help outline the country’s debate about health and address the root causes of racial, economic and health inequities. Space is limited, so please be sure to RSVP at
(412) 624-5665.

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 25th Annual Messer Lecture - “How Financial Conflicts of Interest Endanger Our Profession”

17th Annual LHAS Medical Ethics Update 2008
Keynote Speaker:  Jerome P. Kassirer, MD
Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine Further information will be forthcoming

"Race, Death and Psychic Harm: The Continuing History of No Truth and No Reconciliation"

Professor Bryan Stevenson
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Teplitz Moot Court Room  
Barco Law Building

For its annual Lawyering for Social Change Lecture, the Law School is sponsoring a talk by New York University Law School Professor Bryan Stevenson. Stevenson is also the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, a non-profit organization that defends the rights of the poor and people of color. He and his colleagues have successfully reduced or overturned death sentences in over 65 cases in Alabama. His work has earned him numerous awards, including the Public Interest Lawyer of the Year, the ACLU National Medal of Liberty and the McArthur Foundation "genius" award. He is one of the nation's most powerful speakers against the death penalty and racism in the criminal justice system.

For further information, contact the Law School at 412-648-1401.

The Teaching of Ethics: An Open Discussion

Facilitator:  Valier Swigart, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Location: 815 Alumni Hall  

"Race at Work: Discrimination against Black and Latino Job Seekers"

Reed Smith Spring 2008 Speaker Series
Devah Pager
Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm
Location: School of Social Work Conference Center 
2017 Cathedral of Learning

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

Devah Pager is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Her research focuses on institutions affecting racial stratification, including education, labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Pager's current research has involved a series of field experiments studying discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders in the low-wage labor market. As a separate line of work, Pager recently spent a year in Paris on a Fulbright grant studying changes in crime policy and its relationship to patterns of immigration and ethnic tension in contemporary France. Pager holds Masters Degrees from Stanford University and the University of Cape Town, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2007, University of Chicago Press published her book "Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration."

“Beyond Band Aids: Curing the Sick American Health Care System”

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health – Department of Clinical Bioethics
Tisherman Lecture – Medicine Grand Rounds
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Location: Lecture Room #5  

Public Health in Our City - Freedom House

A series of events showcasing the legacy and current status of Public health in Pittsburgh
Freedom House - A documentary about a program that started out in 1967 to alleviate poverty in the Hill District and ended up changing the way ambulance services operate around the world

followed by a discussion with

Phillip Hallen, President Emeritus of the Falk Foundation and John Moon, Assistant Chief of City of Pittsburgh's Emergency Medical Services
both of whom were instrumental in the success of Freedom House Ambulance service
Time: 12 noon
Location: G23, Parran Hall (130 DeSoto Street)
Graduate School of Public Health

This event qualifies as two events in the Dean's Public Health Grand Rounds
Free and open to the public

“What is Voluntary Informed Consent?”

Ezekiel J. Emanuel ,MD, PhD
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium**
Time: 1:15-3:00 p.m.
Location: 300 Medical Arts Building

The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources: A New View

Visiting Professor – Department of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Health Law
National Institutes of Health – Department of Clinical Bioethics
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: Room 113 School of Law

“Beyond the Cathedral: Building Trust to Engage the African American Community in Health Promotion & Disease Prevention”

Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Research Seminar

Stephen Thomas, PhD
Director, Center for Minority Health
Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health & Social Justice University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Time: Noon – 1:00 pm
Location: A522 Crabtree hall
Graduate School of Public Health
Please bring your lunch. Beverages and dessert will be provided.




Presenter: Amber E. Barnato, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine & Health Policy Management
Associate Director, Clinical Scientist Training Program
University of Pittsburgh
Time: 12:00 pm.
Location: ROOM 305 PARKVALE BUILDING
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Assets for Change: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

Thomas M. Shapiro
Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at the School of Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Time: Noon
Location: Cathedral of Learning room 2017
Faculty members and doctoral students are invited to meet with Dr. Shapiro earlier that day to discuss research interests and methods. The meeting will be from 10.00 to 11.30 am in CL 2309.

Seating for this meeting is limited; if you wish to attend you must RSVP to Michael Newman at mnewman@pitt.edu by the end of the day on Tuesday, February 26.

Dr. Shapiro received his doctorate from Washington University. He is author of "The Hidden Costs of Being African American." "Black Wealth/White Wealth," which he wrote in collaboration with Melvin Oliver, received critical acclaim and won several major awards, including the C. Wright Mills Award and the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award.

“Consumer-Directed Health Care and the Disadvantaged”

M. Gregg Bloche, MD, JD
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium**
Time: 1:30-3:00 p.m
Location: 300 Medical Arts Building

“The Controversy Over Complicity of Health Professionals in Abuse Post-9/11 Interrogation Tactics”

Visiting Professor – Graduate School of Public Health and the Center for Bioethics and Health Law
M. Gregg Bloche, MD, JD
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institute
Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: GSPH

“Social Determinants of Health and Human Rights in the Global Context”

PRESENTER: David Barnard, PhD, JD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Institute to Enhance Palliative Care
Director of Palliative Care Education
Center for Bioethics and Health Law
University of Pittsburgh
The weekly Health Services Research Seminar Series sponsored by the Center for Research on Health Care, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, and RAND-Pittsburgh Institute will meet Tuesday, February 26, 2008 in ROOM 305 PARKVALE BUILDING at 12:00 pm. Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Time: 12:00 pm.
Location: ROOM 305 PARKVALE BUILDING

There are not only stark global disparities in people’s prospects for living a health life, but also glaring contradictions between this empirical reality and the vision of equality proclaimed—and legally undertaken—by most of the nations of the world under international human rights law. This presentation will: (1) review global disparities according to leading heath indicators; (2) offer a framework for thinking about mechanisms of action of social and economic determinants of health in the global context; (3) emphasize poverty and globalization as principal challenges for reducing global health disparities; and (4) ask—but not answer—the daunting question, what should be done?

“Computation and Simulation in Public Health: Three BCHS Pilot Projects”

Steven Albert, PhD, Professor
Christopher Keane, DrPH, Assistant Professor
Ravi Sharma, PhD, Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Time: 1:00– 2:00 pm
Location: A216 Crabtree hall
Graduate School of Public Health

Please bring your lunch.  Beverages and dessert will be provided.

17th Annual Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Meeting

Historic St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

Not just a Pretty Face

Time: 6-7:30pm
Location: Magee-Womans Hospital Auditorium, Zero Level

For More information or to register call 412-802-8299
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Serving the Cause of Humanity without Hurting the Advance of Global Capitalism

Reflections on the Ending of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Joseph E. Inikori, Professor of History, Department of History, University of Rochester
Receptions @ 4:30PM
Talks/Discussions @ 5PM

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“Caring for Organs or for Patients? Ethical Concerns about the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006)”

Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds
Michael DeVita, MD
Professor of Critical Care and Internal Medicine
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: Room 113 School of Law

NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS: 1933-1945

Featuring:
Edward (Ted) J. Phillips

Edward (Ted) J. Phillips joined the Museum in 1994 and has been Deputy Director of the Division of Exhibitions since February 1999, overseeing the division's administrative operations. He is also part of the curatorial teams for the Museum's special and traveling exhibitions, and has worked on more than 25 exhibition projects for the Museum. He also helped develop and edit educational and exhibition publications that accompanied several of the major exhibitions.

Ted earned a Ph.D. in Russian and Early Modern European History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the Museum, he taught Russian history at the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University.

Between 2000 and 2002, Ted curated the traveling exhibition Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945. This exhibition is being presented by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh's JCC from November 18, 2007 until February 6, 2008.

Location: Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh's JCC

An on-line version of this exhibtion is available here

“Air Pollution and Children's Health”

Lunch and Learn Series - Environmental Links to Cancer Jonathan Weinkle, MD, Resident, Medicine-Pediatrics, UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh UPMC
Professor of Critical Care and Internal Medicine
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: Children's Hospital, room B-213-214

*Please pre-register for a free, healthy lunch. Call 412.623.1175 or email us at malones@upmc.edu

Lecture by Cornel West of Harvard University

Time: 8:45 pm

The University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Cross-Cultural and Leadership Development has coordinated The Power of You, a series of events to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning today, The Power of You offers a variety of activities.

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"Housing Violations and Surveillance of Self-Neglect in Community-Resident Elderly"

PRESENTER:
Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSPH
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Room 1102 Scaife Conference Center

In a partnership with the Allegheny County Department of Health, we have obtained access to housing violation microdata and inspection reports for 2003-2006. These data include an indicator for whether residents in houses cited for violations were over age 65. One type of violation, “poor housekeeping,” may serve as a sentinel indicator of self-neglect in the community. We examine the value of routine Department of Health surveillance in this area, merged with GIS information, for identifying likely cases of self-neglect among elderly. 

Keynote address by Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University

Time: 5:00 pm

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"The Erosion of Civil Rights and Community Responses"

Reed Smith Spring 2008 Speaker Series
Kerry O'Donnell
President, The Falk Foundation
Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm
Location: School of Social Work Conference Center
2017 Cathedral of Learning

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

PITTSBURGH- Kerry O'Donnell, president of the Falk Foundation, will deliver a lecture from noon to 1:30 p.m. Jan. 14, to kick off the Reed Smith Spring 2008 Speaker Series at Pitt's Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP), part of the School of Social Work.

Her talk, titled “The Erosion of Civil Rights and Community Responses,” will take place at 2017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. It is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided and registration is not required. For more information, call 412-624-7382 or visit www.crsp.pitt.edu.

Prior to joining the Falk Foundation, O'Donnell served as Program Manager in the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program for International Peace at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and managed post-doctoral Fulbright exchanges with Latin American countries at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. She founded and directed a nonprofit organization in Washington D.C. working with juvenile offenders and crime victims, and evaluated over 700 adult, juvenile, and tribal Drug Court programs across the country under a contract with the Department of Justice at the American University.

O'Donnell currently serves on the Boards of several organizations, including the Brother's Brother Foundation, Institute of Politics at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Center on African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) at Carnegie Mellon University. She volunteers as a mediator in the severe and violent crime mediation program with Office of the Victim Advocate for the state of Pennsylvania, and a Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children. Kerry also trains a miniature horse as a companion to children with terminal illnesses. Her work as a volunteer tester for fair housing and a mentor for at-risk youth earned her the Racial Justice Award from the Pittsburgh YWCA and the Making the Connection award from the National Association of Women Business Owners.

Three other lectures over the next three months are slated as part of the CRSP Reed Smith Spring 2008 Speaker Series. Details will be forthcoming.

“A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Achieving a Healthy People 2010 Goal”

Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Research Seminar
Linda Siminerio, Ph.D., M.S.
Director, University of Pittsburgh Diabetes Institute
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Time:Noon – 1:00 pm
Location:A522 Crabtree hall
Graduate School of Public Health

Please bring your lunch.  Beverages and dessert will be provided.

Clinical Research Seminar Series: The Basic Science of Clinical Research

Time: 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Location:LHAS Auditorium, 7 Main UPMC Montefiore

CTSI Regulatory Knowledge & Support Overview
Laurel Yasko, RN, BSN, CCRC
Michael Green, MD
Shannon Valenti, MBA, CIP
Jane Alexander, BSEd, CCRC
Suzanne Regney, RN, BSN

The Office of Clinical Research, Health Sciences (OCR), the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Center for Research on Health Care sponsor a monthly clinical research seminar series entitled, "The Basic Science of Clinical Research." The purpose of this series is to present a broad overview of fundamental clinical research concepts, methods, and tools to the large number of investigators and trainees who are pursuing clinical research careers in the six health sciences schools. CME/CEU credits will be available. Light refreshments will be offered before the event.

The 2007-2008 Clinical Research Seminar Series will focus on the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).  The primary focus of (CTSI) is to develop, nurture, and support a cadre of clinical and translational scientists as they navigate the increasingly complex research system. The Institute seeks to integrate investigators across the full spectrum of translational research from bench to bedside to health practice so they are able to collaborate and to leverage each other's knowledge, experiences, and perspective. 

To register for this event please visit the OCR Online Registration Form
For additional services that are available to the research community, visit the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute website at www.ctsi.pitt.edu or call 412-383-1171 to speak directly with a CTSI Research Facilitator.

Reducing Health Disparities Faster: Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Time: 12:15pm - 2:00pm
(Lunch will be served at 12:00pm)
Speakers:
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia PhD
Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health

Stephen Thomas, PhD
Director of the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health and Social Justice

Amparo Castillo-Richmond, MD, MS
ProjectDirector, Midwest Latino Health Research, Training & Policy Center
University of Illinois Chicago

Invited:
Larry Cohen, MSW
Executive Director, Prevention Institute
Rosemarie M. Henson, MPH, MSSW
Deputy Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion CDC
Stephen Thomas, PhD
Director of the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health & Social Justice
With comments from Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis

Location: RAYBURN Bldg - Room B339 (Washington, DC)

A Disparities Foresight Briefing and Monthly Minority Health Briefing in conjunction with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Health care reform will do little to reduce health disparities unless we work on the social environment and the social determinants of health as well. This is happening in communities across the country in initiatives focusing on housing, access to healthy foods, safe and activity friendly neighborhoods, and transportation. CDC's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH U.S.) is a prime example. Such initiatives are part of an emerging social movement to reverse health disparities. This briefing will consider these efforts and their policy implications.

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Fall 2007 Speaker Series - "Challenges of Race, Poverty, and Sprawl"

Featuring:
Sala Udin
President and CEO, Coro Center for Civic Leadership, Pittsburgh

Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm
Location: School of Social Work Conference Center
2017 Cathedral of Learning
Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

Udin's lecture, "Challenges of Race, Poverty, and Sprawl," will examine what he calls "profound demographic changes over the past 50 years in the population and resources of the urban core." He says that underrepresented people are locked in, prevented from accessing jobs, housing, and quality education. Meanwhile, the quality of life inside the urban core continues to deteriorate. "The long-term viability of the region is inextricably bound to the viability of the urban core to which it is connected," Udin says. "If the heart fails, the body dies."

During his 11 years on Pittsburgh City Council, Udin became known as the voice for the poor and oppressed. He led the city's contracting of a disparity study, which resulted in an unprecedented number of underrepresented groups obtaining jobs or construction contracts for the demolition of Three Rivers Stadium and the construction of PNC Park and Heinz Field.

Udin served as chair of City Council's Finance and Budget Committee for three successive two-year terms. He led two citywide referenda to amend the City Charter to include the Citizen Police Review Board and to create a jobs program called Pittsburgh Works. He oversaw the largest new housing construction in Pittsburgh's history-Crawford Square, Bedford Hills, Oak Hill and the Manchester Hope VI communities. Udin also was instrumental in the fundraising, design, and construction of Freedom Corner, a monument to living and deceased civil rights heroes at the entrance to the Hill District, also used as a staging corner for civil rights demonstrations.

More recently, Udin assumed his current post as president and CEO of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership. Coro is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen the democratic process by preparing individuals for effective and ethical leadership in the public arena. It has operations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Cleveland.

Faith Based Care Response to HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

Featuring:Sandra C. Quinn, Ph.D.
Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D.
Time: 3:30
Location: G23 auditorium of Parran Hall (GSPH)

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Leadership Dialogue Series - “The Changing Face of Leadership”

Featuring:

David Rusk
Author of Cities Without Suburbs, Baltimore Unbound, and Inside Game/Outside Game
Keynote presented by:
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Annual Wherrett Lecture on Local Governing

Time: 8:30am - 12:30pm
(Registration begins at 8:00 am)

Register by calling 412-258-6642 or emailing us at info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
No fee to attend.
Location: Twentieth Century Club
4201 Bigelow Blvd., Oakland

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Fall 2007 Speaker Series

"Post-Welfare Outcomes for African Americans and Hispanics"

Featuring:
Andrew J. Cherlin, PhD
Professor of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm
Location: School of Social Work Conference Center
2017 Cathedral of Learning

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required

Dr. Cherlin's research is in the sociology of families and public policy. He has published books and articles on topics such as marriage and divorce, children's well-being, intergenerational relations, family policy, and welfare policy. He is the principal investigator of the "Three-City Study," an on-going interdisciplinary study of the consequences of the 1996 welfare reform law for parents and children. The study involves a survey of 2,400 families in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, an embedded observational study, and an ethnographic study of an additional 250 families. Its main findings to date were published in Science, vol. 299, March 7, 2003, pp. 1548-1552. The web site for the study is www.jhu.edu/~welfare. The site includes downloadable documents that describe the study and present its findings. The data from the first two survey waves of the study are publicly available through Sociometrics. The study will continue until 2007. He is also the author of a textbook in the sociology of the family, Public and Private Families: An Introduction (Fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005.)

Leadership Dialogue Series - “The Changing Face of Leadership”

Featuring:

William E. Strickland, Jr.
President & CEO
Manchester Bidwell Corporation

Bill will share key leadership insights from his distinguished career

Time: 11:30 – 1:30 PM.
Location: Rivers Club
One Oxford Center
301 Grant Street
Pittsburgh PA, 15219

MARK A. NORDENBERG LECTURE IN LAW, MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY - “Legal & Policy Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic”

Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law and the School of Law

Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD
C. Boyden Gray Associate Professor of Health Policy and Law
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: School of Law – Courtroom – Ground Floor
3900 Forbes Avenue

More Information: Two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Although 85% of the American public believes that obesity is an “epidemic,” there is great controversy over what role the government, public policy, and the law should play in addressing the problem. This lecture will discuss philosophical and economic justifications for treating obesity as a problem meriting government intervention and explore possible legal and policy solutions.

Center for National Preparedness

Seminar Series

Keith Rothfus, Attorney
Yukevich, Marchetti, Liekar & Zangrilli, P.C.
The former director of DHS' Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm - Reception to follow
Location: 5th Floor Alumni Hall
University of Pittsburgh
5th Ave
Pittsburgh, PA

RSVP: http://www.cnp.pitt.edu/seminar by October 29th

ABSTRACT
Various after-action reports of Hurricane Katrina highlighted the role played by faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) in responding to the disaster. Such reports disclosed, among other things, that these organizations often had difficulty in interacting with various levels of government as they sought to assist people in need. To review and propose solutions that would better enable government to work with these organizations, President Bush directed the establishment of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives within DHS. The purpose of the Center is to coordinate agency efforts to eliminate obstacles to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the provision of social and community services sponsored by the agency.

December Seminar
Thursday, December 6th, Dr. Harvey Rubin

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“Sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of gay youth: A meta-analysis”

Research Seminar
Mark Friedman, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh

PLEASE BRING YOUR LUNCH. BEVERAGES AND DESSERT WILL BE PROVIDED.

Time: 12.00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: 109 PARRAN HALL
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Fall 2007 Speaker Series

"Post-Welfare Outcomes for African Americans and Hispanics"
Andrew J. Cherlin, PhD, Professor of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm
Location: School of Social Work Conference Center
2017 Cathedral of Learning

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

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"We Already Have the Italian Squad, Why Not the Colored Squad?"

Race and Law Enforcement in Early Twentieth Century New York
Kimberly Sims, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, American University
Receptions @ 4:30PM
Talks/Discussions @ 5PM

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Leroy Irvis and Barack Obama:The Sources of Success

Laurence Glasco, Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Receptions @ 4:30PM
Talks/Discussions @ 5PM

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"Shopping Under Suspicion: Consumer Racial Profiling and Perceived Victimization"

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Fall 2007 Speaker Series

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30pm

Shaun L. Gabbidon, PhD
Professor of Criminal Justice
School of Public Affairs
Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

Location: School of Social Work Conference Center
2017 Cathedral of Learning

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

“An Evening of Casual Elegance”

Building Healthy Black Families: Mind, Body and Spirit Where They Live, Work, Worship and Play.
Fundraiser for Healthy Black Family Project
A Program of Center for Minority Health Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh

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The Secret History of the War on Cancer

by Devra L. Davis, PhD, MPH
The war on cancer was first run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease.

Book Launch Dates:
October 1, 2007, 7 PM - 9 PM

Launch, with reception and signing to follow University of Pittsburgh, Scaife Hall, Auditorium 5 & 6, 3500 Terrace St (across from the Peterson Event Center) October 2, 2007, 7:30-9:30 PM Reading, with reception and signing to follow Carnegie Mellon University, University Center, McConomy Auditorium, 5032 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh.

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Disability and integration: An Inherent tension?

Ruth Colker

Location:
University of Pittsburgh
School of Law
Barco Law Building
TEPLITZ Courtroom
3900 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA
Reception to follow

Time:1pm-2:30pm

Reception to follow

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Jessie Gruman, Ph.D.

Author of AfterShock

Location:
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Main - Lecture Hall

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Knocking on Health Care's Door

Location: Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC
300 Halket St., Oakland
Conference Center, Zero Level

Time: 7 to 9 p.m.
Dessert reception to follow.

RSVP by September 17.

You are invited to hear the inspirational story of a remarkable woman who has faced ovarian cancer and has dedicated her life to helping others gain access to the health care they deserve.

The event is free, but reservations are required.
Call 412-802-8299 or visit http://magee.upmc.com (select Classes).

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A fun family day with Latino culture

(“Serving the Community”)

Time: 1:30-5:30 p.m

Information about health, finances, education, social and legal services!
There will be raffles, children activities and Latin food for sale!
Captain Jolly Roger, a Pirates’ mascot is coming!
Also a mini job fair!


WE HAVE FREE BUSES FROM ST. REGIS AFTER MASS FREE PARKING at Carnegie Mellon University – FREE ADMISSION For more information, write to documetp@yahoo.com or call the Latino Office at 412-578-0402.

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Take a Health Professional to the People Day

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Valuing Diversity in Health Sciences

8th Annual Networking Reception for Students & Faculty in the School of the Health Sciences

Location:
Student Union
(Lower Lounge)
RSVP by Friday, September 7th
Sponsored by: The University of Pittsburgh
Center for Minority Health
Graduate School of Public Health
Partnership with Office of Student Affairs / Diversity Programs, School of Medicine
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

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"Mental Health Risk Factors in Nonwhite Populations"

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Fall 2007 Speaker Series
Carl C. Bell, MD
President & CEO, Community Mental Health Council and Foundation, Inc.

Location:
School of Social Work Conference Center
2017 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
School of Social Work
Center on Race and Social Problems

Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30pm

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

Dr. Bell is President and CEO, of the Community Mental Health Council and Foundation, Inc. a $21 million comprehensive community mental health center in Chicago that employs 450 geniuses. He is also the Principle Investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health R-01 Grant - Using CHAMP to Prevent Youth HIV Risk in a South African Township. Dr. Bell is the Director of Public and Community Psychiatry and a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health and Co-Director - UIC Interdisciplinary Violence Prevention Research Center, University of Illinois at Chicago.

During his 35-year career, Bell has published more than 350 articles and books on mental health. He authored The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness. He has an expert guest Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and the Today Show. He has also lectured internationally on various topics.

Dr. Bell graduated from University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, in 1967 and earned his MD from Meharry College in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed his psychiatric residency in 1974 at the Illinois State psychiatric Institute in Chicago, where he worked with children, adolescents and adults.

Undoing Racism™ Community Organizing Workshop

Location:
The Children's Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center
5324 Penn Avenue
between South Aiken and South Atlantic Avenues, in the Friendship neighborhood of the city
Parking is free
Time:9:00am to 5:00pm including a breakfast and lunch

Purpose:
To frame the national situation we face today:

• There is no difference between races in the likelihood that a parent will abuse or neglect a child.
• There is a great difference between races in the likelihood that a child will be removed from home and placed in foster care.
• African American children are four times more likely to be placed in care than Caucasian children.
• American Indian and Alaska Native children are three times more likely to be placed in care. Latino children are twice as likely to be placed in care.
• Children of color also receive fewer services while in out-of-home care. And they leave the system less prepared for adulthood than their Caucasian peers.
• If nothing is done to change the situation now, more than 25,000 children will die and more than 9 million more will experience foster care by the year 2020.

The national movement involves change made at the community level. As a community leader, you are an integral part of the movement. We would like to offer you a warm welcome to attend two-day workshop that will provide you with the tools to recognize and act upon the disproportionate application of services and outcomes within the organizations and institutions that serve our children.

Enduring Hearts

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Reception August 3rd, 2007
Arts | Film August 2007
Enduring Hearts is a digital photography series by Pittsburgh artist Armand Wright. Running concurrently in the outer gallery: We Will Dance Again, recent photo work by Pittsburgh artist David Grim. An opening reception will be held on Friday, August 3 from 7:00 - 9:00pm. It is free and open to the public.


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Summer Institute: Race and Mental Health

Location: School of Social Work Conference Center
20th Floor Cathedral of Learning
Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

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"Does Racism Make Us Sick?"

50 satellite downlink sites in 27 states, 500 webcast participants, and a studio audience of 260 have preregistered to join the 13th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health
Time: 2:00 - 4:00pm EDT

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What do you know about black men and prostate cancer?

Talking about Fighting Prostate Cancer - In the Barber Shop
* In Honor of Father’s Day and National Men’s Health Week

Location: BIG TOM'S Barbershop
Time: 10am-12pm
412-287-0551
2042 Centre Avenue Hill District

Location: BAT'S Barbershop
Time: 1pm-3pm
412-362-7121
5911 Penn Avenue
East Liberty

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Advancing Human Subject Protection: Here and Now

A one day conference, co-sponsored by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, will be held at the Sheraton Station Square on Friday, June 22, 2007. Nationally recognized experts, including speakers from OHRP, FDA, VA, and the Department of Education, will discuss a wide range of topics of relevance to both psychosocial and biomedical researchers, as well as IRB members and research administrators.

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The Healthy Class of 2010

Accomplishments of Year 4 and Plans for Year 5
Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, in partnership with Pittsburgh Public Schools.

Location:
The Lexus Club
PNC Park
General Robinson Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Northside)
Time: 11:30 a.m – 3:00 p.m

What do you know about black men and prostate cancer?

Talking about Fighting Prostate Cancer - In the Barber Shop
* In Honor of Father’s Day and National Men’s Health Week

Location: WADE'S Barbershop
Time: 10am-12pm
412-242-9189
7223 Kelly St. Homewood

Location: WILLIE TEE'S Barbershop
Time: 1pm-3pm
412-244-8859
7205 Frankstown Avenue
Homewood

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"The Healthy Black Family"

Location: Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 4227 Fifth Ave, Oakland
Presented by:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre in partnership with the Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh

Metro Urban Institute Health Fair

Join us in celebrating National Minority Health Month! Gather with members of the local faith and health communities to see how these two areas connect.

Time: 9:00 am - 3:00pm

Fourth Annual Justice and Equity Banquet - Dick Gregory Coming to Pittsburgh

Location: Sheraton, Station Square
Time: 7:00 pm

National Minority Health Month

Time: 10:00AM–10:00PM
Location: Kingsley Association (East Liberty)

East of Liberty: A Story of Good Intentions

The School of Social Work's Student Executive Council invites you to an exclusive free screening of "East of Liberty," a thought-provoking new documentary by Pittsburgh filmmaker Chris Ivey.
Time: 6:00pm
Location: 2017 Cathedral of Learning - University of Pittsburgh

Reed Smith Spring 2007 Speaker Series

Presented by: Elijah Anderson
The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

"Poor, Young, Black, and Male: A Case for National Action?"

Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30pm
Location: School of Social Work Conference Center
2017 Cathedral of Learning

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

“The Manifest Behaviors of Suffering”

An open public lecture
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
Location: Room 129, Victoria Building
Presented by: Dr. Janice Morse, University of Utah

“Writing Qualitatively”

A workshop on the science of qualitative research Free for Pitt faculty, staff and students (pre-registration by March 21 is required)
Time: 9:00 am–12:00 pm
Location: Room 129, Victoria Building
Presented by: Dr. Janice Morse, University of Utah

“Social Work Interventions in Disaster Situations”

Srilatha Juvva is a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India.

NASW and the International Federation of Social Workers have declared March 27, 2007 1st annual World Social Work Day.

Please join colleagues from around the world in celebrating this important event, whose theme this year is "Making a World of Difference."

The University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work is sponsoring a presentation by Srilatha Juvva.

Classes are welcome | Light refreshments will be served

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Social Work Conference Room, 2017 Cathedral of Learning
Presented by: Dr. Janice Morse, University of Utah

Involving Communities in Research: A Matter of Ethics Models from Urban and Native Communities

Location: Feinstone Hall, 615 N. Wolfe St.

Time: 12:00 – 1:15 pm

"Relativity"

Location: Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 4227 Fifth Ave, Oakland
Presented by:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre in partnership with the Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh

Disparities in End of Life Care: What Do We Really Know, and What Can We Do?

Registration: 4:30 pm
Program: 5:00 - 6:30pm
Reception: 6:30 - 7:30pm
Location: LIVE at Hillman Cancer Center, Herberman Conference Center OR Videoconferenced to all sites pre-registering.
Speaker:
Richard Payne, MD
Director, Institute on Care at the End of Life, Duke University

Premiere viewing of the HBO “ADDICTION”

Message Carriers Pittsburgh, PA, Lead Agency

Location: 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15219, in the Bayer Learning Center in Wolfe Lecture Hall. Parking is located at Forbes Parking garage. For more info go www.duq.edu

Time: 6:00pm-9:30pm

Hosted/sponsored by: Message Carriers & Duquesne University

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Reed Smith Spring 2007 Speaker Series

"The Time Tax: Race and Spatial Equity in New York City"

University of Pittsburgh
School of Social Work
Center on Race and Social Problems

Speaker: Kathyrn Neckerman Associate Director,
Columbia University Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Location: School of Social Work Conference Center, 2017 Cathedral of Learning

Time: 12.00 pm - 1.30pm

Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

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HIV/AIDS: It’s Everybody’s Business!

Let Our Creative Voices Be Heard to End HIV/AIDS in Pittsburgh!

Location: Magee-Womens Hospital
Auditorium, Zero Level
300 Halket Street, Oakland

Time: 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Conquering Disparities through Collaboration

Location: Harrisburg Holiday Inn and Convention Center, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

We invite you to join us at the Central Region Health Equity Summit on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Harrisburg Holiday Inn and Convention Center in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. The summit, sponsored by the Commonwealth's Office of Health Equity, will bring together resentatives from health care, insurance, business, government, non-profit, and faith-based organizations.
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We encourage you to attend as your schedule permits. You may download a registration form and indicate which breakout session(s) you would like to attend. Please RSVP by March~2, 2007 to Lori Ann Jenkins of the Office of Health Equity at (717) 772-5298 or by email at ljenkins@state.pa.us.

Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to your participation.

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Lecture by Tyrone B. Hayes, PhD and Professor at the University of California at Berkeley - Dept of Integrative Biology

Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Location: The HillmanCancer Center - Cooper Conference Center - Classrooms B & C
Presented by: The Ctr for Environmental Oncology of UPCI

He is African American and is an internationally renowned endocrinologist recognized for his research on atrazine, a widely used pesticide in the US shown to be a potent endocrine disrupter that chemically castrates and feminizes exposed male amphibians.

Research on Health and Health Care Disparities for African-Americans: Providing the Evidence from Pitt's School of Nursing

Time: 2:00-3:15 pm

Whitney M.Young, Jr. Dinner

Location: Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel
Time: Program and Dinner 6:00p.m.

FORGOTTEN GENIUS

Narrated by Courtney B. Vance
Starring Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Percy Julian http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian

Location: NOVA
Time: 8pm ET/PT

“The Politics of Black-Jewish Relations and Why It Matters”

Location: Wesley W.Posvar Hall Room 5130
Time: 12:00PM

Presented by:
PROFESSOR CHERYL L. GREENBERG
Raether Distinguished Professor
Department of History
Trinity College

"Sarafina!"

Location: Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 4227 Fifth Ave, Oakland
Presented by:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre in partnership with the Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh



Open House:
Learn about GSPH's Departments, Centers & Student Organizations

Location:Graduate School of Public Health
Time: 8:30am-1:00pm

Dissertation Title: "Faith, Health and Health Care Practices of African American Attendees at the 2005 Joint National Black Baptist Conference"

Presenter: Crystal Warren
Location: 109 Parran Hall
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts"

This film recounts how Hurricane Katrina and the breaching of the levees affected the lives of New Orleans residents and others with ties to the community.

Location: GSPH Auditorium (G23)
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sponsored by:
The Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh in partnership with The Minority Student Organization

"In the Midnight Hour"

Location: Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 4227 Fifth Ave, Oakland
Presented by:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre in partnership with the Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh

"Take a Health Professional to the People Day"

Location: BARBER SHOP & BEAUTY SALON LOCATIONS

Sponsored by:
The Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh in partnership with the participating barbershops and beauty salons

7th Annual Networking Reception for Students & Faculty in the School of the Health Sciences

Location:
3rd floor of the Twentieth Century Club
The Club is located on the north east corner of O'Hara Street and Bigelow Blvd.

Time: 5:30 P.M to 7:30 P.M

Sponsored by:
The University of Pittsburgh: Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health
In Partnership with The Student Affairs Diversity Programs, School of Medicine

"Changing the Face of Medicine"

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to present this exhibition honoring the lives and accomplishments of these women in the hope of inspiring a new generation of medical pioneers.