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Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease |
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March 16, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
1655 Crossroads
School of Public Health I
Public Talk, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease: Jonathan Metzl, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of the Culture, Health, and Medicine Program at the University of Michigan; in conversation with Harold Neighbors, Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education, and Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health; Derek Griffith, Assistant Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education, and Director, Center on Men's Health Disparities.
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Community Lounge (Room 1680)
School of Public Health I
Book Signing and Refreshments
Books will be available for purchasing and signing
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Invited Talk by David R. Williams |
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"The RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America:
Challenges and Opportunities"

April 2, 2010
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
SPH II, Auditorium
1415 Washington Heights
David R. Williams is the Florence and
Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of African
and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University. His prior academic
appointments were at the University of Michigan (14 years) and Yale University (6 years). He holds an MPH
from Loma Linda University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of
Michigan. He is interested in social influences on health and has examined the
trends and determinants of socioeconomic and racial differences in health. His
research also addresses the ways in which racism can affect health and the effects
of religious involvement on health. Dr.
Williams was also a scientific advisor to the award-winning PBS film series, Unnatural
Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick?
Co-sponsored by the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH), and the School of Social Work's Research Administration Services.
This event is free and open to the public.
Click here for more
information about the event
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UM SPH Forum on Gender, Sexual, and Reproductive Health |
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The Forum on Gender, Sexual, and Reproductive Health serves the UM SPH
intellectual community through facilitating an interdisciplinary
exchange on related public health research and activities. It does this
through meetings and events, and support of course offerings and
student internships. For more information on the Forum's Lecture Series for Winter 2010, visit http://www.sph.umich.edu/sgph/meetings.html.
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2010 Annual Meeting of Michigan Academy |
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The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy
March 26, 2010
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Click here for details for Academy membership, and meeting registration
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NHMA's 14th Annual Conference |
SAVE
THE DATE
14th Annual Conference
Health Care
Transformation to Expand Prevention and Health Promotion for Hispanic
Communities
March 25-28, 2010 * Washington, DC
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Commission to Build Heathier America |
For Immediate Release
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Commission to Build Healthier America
"Education Matters for
Health"
A new Commission issue brief, Education Matters for Health,
discusses the large body of evidence linking education and health and examines why, across
America and generations, people with more education live longer and experience better health outcomes.
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