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Monday, March 21, 2016: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Salon 5 (Crystal Gateway Marriott)
Description: This session will discuss health disparities and inequities and the impact on health care. One reason the US lags behind in most measures of health is due to the disproportionate burden of illness, premature death, and disabilitity that affects racial and ethnic minority population groups and other underserved populations. The speakers will discuss strategies to move to action and the role for academic public health to reduce disparities and inequities.
Presenters/Panelists:
Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
,
Irene Dankwa-Mullan, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Scientific Programs, NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
and
Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, MPA, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
Moderator:
Cheryl G. Healton, DrPH, Dean, New York University Global Institute of Public Health