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 (PDF) for details.

August 28, 2007   5:15 p.m.
Brent Barry, Ph.D.  University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
Disparities in Leisure Time Inactivity in the United States:  Political, Economic, and Structural Explanations

Elaine Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville Ekstrom Library, 2301 South Third Street               

October 9, 2007  5:15 p.m.
Vernellia R. Randall, JD. University of Dayton School of Law
Health Care and Race: Creating a Civil Rights Bill for Healthcare

Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York Street

December 4, 2007  5:15 p.m.
Michael Katz, Ph.D.  University of Pennsylvania, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
One Nation Divisible: the Changing Character of Inequality in the U.S. and Recasting the Concepts of Work, City, Family, Race, and Nationality

Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York Street

January 8, 2008  5:15 p.m.
Patricia O’Campo, PH.D.  St. Michael’s Hospital, Director, Center for Research on Inner City Health 
Neighborhood Impoverishment, Social Capital, and the Cognitive Development of African-American Preschoolers

Elaine Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville Ekstrom Library, 2301 South Third Street                 

March 11, 2008  5:15 p.m.
Michael Woolcock, Ph.D.   The World Bank, Development Research Group
The Importance of Social Capital for Public Health and Community Development

Elaine Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville Ekstrom Library, 2301 South Third Street                     

May 12, 2008  5:15 p.m.
James Dunn, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Public Health Sciences
How Local and Federal Policies Affect Income Inequality and Health in Canada and the United States

Elaine Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville Ekstrom Library, 2301 South Third Street                   

Seating is limited to the first 100 people who RSVP   

For more information about the Center for Health Equity please visit our website at www.louisvilleky.gov/Health/equity.   You can also reach us by telephone at 502-574-6616.