For Immediate Release:
March 28, 2007
Leading National Public Health Advocates Convene at Morehouse School of Medicine Summit to Tie in with National Public Health Week Observance
WHO:
Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP, executive director, American Public Health Association
David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16 th U.S. Surgeon General; director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
Eve J. Higginbotham, MD, FACS, dean and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, Morehouse School of Medicine
Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH, chair, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine
Stuart Brown, MD, director, Georgia Division of Public Health
WHAT:
The Morehouse School of Medicine Public Health Summit will take place during National Public Health Week, which will be observed from April 2 to 8. The summit will:
- examine global, national, and local health disparities,
- explore solutions to these health disparities,
- issue a call to action through the release of a white paper, “The Public Health Approach to the Elimination of Disparities in Health,” by The Satcher Health Leadership Institute, presented by Satcher and Higginbotham.
Attendees will include public health officials, faculty, staff and students from the Morehouse School of Medicine, as well as from other schools in the Atlanta University Center.
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (including lunch)
WHERE:
Morehouse School of Medicine
Auditorium, Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care
720 Westview Drive SW,
Atlanta, GA 30310
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Morehouse School of Medicine is a historically black institution established to recruit and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists and public health professionals committed to the health-care needs of the underserved. MSM is not affiliated with Morehouse College.
Founded in 1872, the APHA is the oldest, largest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in the world. The association aims to protect all Americans and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States. APHA represents a broad array of health providers, educators, environmentalists, policy-makers and health officials at all levels working both within and outside governmental organizations and educational institutions. More information is available at www.apha.org.
Contact: Sabrina Jones, (202) 777-2509, sabrina.jones@apha.org
