[Grad-Cap Icon] Training

Tompkins-McCaw Library will be hosting the Internet broadcast of the keynote lecture of the 34th Annual Minority Health Conference at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill entitled, "Taking Action to Achieve Health Equity: Beyond the Affordable Care Act." Dr. Brian Smedley will explore how neighborhood and community contexts directly and indirectly shape health and contribute to health inequities as a result of racial and ethnic residential segregation. The presentation will also feature a discussion of policy strategies that de-concentrate poverty, reduce the geographic concentration of health risks, and increase investments in health-enhancing resources in communities that suffer from disinvestment. More information can be found at http://www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2013/keynoteabstract.cfm