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The Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research
presents an open Forum to discuss
 
"Race Matters?!?"
Towards a synthesis of genetic, social and political perspective


Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
3:30-5:00pm


To be held in the Atrium of the
Institute for Mind and Biology
940 E 57th Street
Chicago, IL
 
 
Sponsored by:
The Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (CIHDR)
The Institute for Mind and Biology
 
"Race Matters?!?"
How to consider race when doing health research
Martha McClintock, PhD. (Moderator) Professor McClintock is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology, Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology and the Co-Director of The Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University of Chicago
 
Confirmed Panelists:
Sharon Kardia, PhD. Professor Kardia is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and the Director of the Public Health Genetics Program at the University of Michigan. Dr. Kardia's main research interests are in the genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. She is particularly interested in gene-environment and gene-gene interactions and in developing novel analytical strategies to understand the complex relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and risk of common chronic diseases. Dr. Kardia serves with Dr. Toby Citrin as the co-director of both the Life Sciences and Society Program and the Michigan Center for Genomics & Public Health.
 
Keith Whitfield, PhD. Professor Whitfield is an Associate Professor of Biobehavorial Health and a member of the Population Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include studying health, social, mental health, psychological, and biological sources of individual differences in cognitive aging in elderly African-Americans, and studying cognition and health in older adult twins.

William Dressler, PhD. Professor Dressler is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. He has interests in culture theory, community studies, research methods, and especially the relationship between culture and disease risk.  In his earlier work Dressler adapted models of psychosocial stress to examine the association between social and cultural factors and the risk of chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease and dysthymic disorder.  His recent work emphasizes concepts and methods for examining the health effects of individual efforts to achieve culturally-defined goals and aspirations.  This work has necessitated the theoretical integration of cultural constructivist and social structural theoretical orientations, and the development of research methods for linking the cultural, the individual, and the biological.  Dressler and colleagues have examined these factors in settings as diverse as urban Great Britain, the Southeast U.S., the West Indies, Mexico, and Samoa.

Marc Loveless  Interim Director of Community Service at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

 

For more information, contact:

Laura DeSousa
Administrator
Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research
The University of Chicago
Institute for Mind and Biology, Rm 125
940 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL  60637
(773) 834-9093
(773) 702-6898  fax

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