We welcome your attendance to the First Annual Social Justice & Public Health Speaker Series. The social conditions into which we are born, live and work have a profound effect on our well-being and longevity. This Speaker’s Series is designed to bring attention to and heighten awareness about these factors that are influencing health inequities. It is our hope that by beginning a dialogue about these issues, we can move toward the research and collaboration needed to address the social factors influencing health inequities and bring about change. Click here for details.
August 28, 2007
Brent Barry, Ph.D. - University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
“Disparities in Leisure Time Inactivity in the United States: Political, Economic, and Structural Explanations”
Location: Elaine Chao Auditorium – University of Louisville Elkstrom Library 2301 South Third Street Louisville, KY 40292
October 9, 2007
Vernellia R. Randall, JD - University of Dayton School of Law
“Health Care and Race: Creating a Civil Rights Bill for Healthcare”
Location: Louisville Free Public Library
Centennial Room 2301
South Third Street
Louisville, KY 40292
December 4, 2007
Michael Katz, Ph.D. - University of Pennsylvania, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, Research Associate, Population Studies Center
“One Nation Divisible: the Changing Character of Inequality in the U.S. and Recasting the Concepts of Work, City, Family, Race, and Nationality”
Location: Louisville Free Public Library,
Centennial Room 2301
South Third Street
Louisville, KY 40292
January 8, 2008
Patricia O’Campo, PH.D. - St. Michael’s Hospital, Director, Centre for Research on Inner City Health
“Neighborhood Impoverishment, Social Capital, and the Cognitive Development of African-American Preschoolers”
Location: Elaine Chao Auditorium – University of Louisville Elkstrom Library
2301 South Third Street
Louisville, KY 40292
March 11, 2008
Michael Woolcock, Ph.D. - The World Bank, Development Research Group“The Importance of Social Capital for Public Health and Community Development”
Location:Elaine Chao Auditorium – University of Louisville Elkstrom Library
2301 South Third Street
Louisville, KY 40292
May 12, 2008
James Dunn, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Public Health Sciences, Research Scientist, St. Michael’s Hospital Centre of Research on Inner City Health“How Local & Federal Policies Affect Income Inequality & Health in Canada and the United States”
Location: Elaine Chao Auditorium – University of Louisville Elkstrom Library
2301 South Third Street
Louisville, KY 40292
Seating is limited to the first 100 people who RSVP