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April 2004

EPH Faculty to Speak at Conference on Reducing Health Disparities

Three members of the EPH faculty will speak at the April 30 “Equity + Access + Outcome – The Role of Prevention Science in Reducing Health Disparities” conference, which is being sponsored by the Division of Prevention and Community Research, a division of the School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.

Beth Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology (CDE), will speak about racial/ethnic disparities and mammography screening. Kim Blankenship, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist in the Division of CDE, will speak about race disparities in HIV/AIDS and the criminal justice system. Curtis Patton, Professor of Epidemiology and Head of the Division of Global Health, is serving on an expert panel discussing the topic “More Than a Pound of Cure, An Ounce of Prevention.”

For additional information about the conference, call Barbara Consiglio at (203) 789-7645 or email DPCR@theconsultationcenter.org.