REGISTER at http://chess.bsd.uchicago.edu  under CCEHPE, Annual Symposium

SPONSORS:
Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics (CCEHPE)
RWJ Disparities Solutions National Program Office
Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (CIHDR) 
Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Kathleen Cagney, PhD Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago's Department of Health Studies and the co-Investigator of the CCEHPE’s Health Disparities and Neighborhood Core.

Marshall Chin, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Disparities Solutions National Program Office.

Sarah Gehlert, PhD Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (CIHDR) and Director of the CCEHPE's Health Disparities and Neighborhoods Core.

Thomas LaVeist, PhD Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions. 

Omar McRoberts, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and author of Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood, in which he explores the relationships between urban "storefront" churches and the community in which they are situated.  

David Meltzer, MD, PhD, a General Internist and PhD in Economics who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and affiliated faculty of the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.  He is the Director of both the Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics (CCEHPE) and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences.

Alberto Palloni, PhD Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin and co-author of "Paradox Lost: Explaining the Hispanic Adult Mortality Advantage".

Richard Warnecke, PhD Professor of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Sociology, and Epidemiology/Biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, a sister to the center that Professor Gehlert directs at the University of Chicago. 

Eric Whitaker, MD, MPH Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago will deliver the keynote address over lunch.