Leading National Public Health Advocates Convene at Morehouse School of Medicine
To: EDUCATION EDITORS
Contact: Jeannette Duerr for the Morehouse School of Medicine, +1- 443-286-6777, duerrcomm@aol.com
ATLANTA, March 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following advisory was issued today by Morehouse School of Medicine:
WHO:
Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP, executive director, American Public Health
Association
David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16th U.S. Surgeon General; director, Satcher
Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
Eve J. Higginbotham, MD, FACS, dean and senior vice president for Academic
Affairs, Morehouse School of Medicine
Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH, chair, Department of Community Health and
Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine
Stuart Brown, MD, director, Georgia Division of Public Health
WHAT:
The Morehouse School of Medicine Public Health Summit will take place
during National Public Health Week, which will be observed from April 2 to
8. The summit will:
— examine global, national, and local health disparities,
— explore solutions to these health disparities,
— issue a call to action through the release of a white paper, “The
Public Health Approach to the Elimination of Disparities in Health,”
by The Satcher Health Leadership Institute, presented by Satcher and
Higginbotham.
Attendees will include public health officials, faculty, staff and
students from the Morehouse School of Medicine, as well as from other
schools in the Atlanta University Center.
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (including lunch)
WHERE:
Morehouse School of Medicine
Auditorium, Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care
720 Westview Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
Morehouse School of Medicine is a historically black institution established to recruit and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists and public health professionals committed to the health- care needs of the underserved. MSM is not affiliated with Morehouse College.
SOURCE Morehouse School of Medicine
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