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Public Health Grand Rounds Series on Health Disparities Begins February 20

February 20 marks the first in a series of six lectures throughout 2008 focusing on health disparities. Ronny A. Bell, Ph.D., M.S., Director of the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health at Wake Forest University Health Sciences will deliver the lecture “Racial Disparities in Diabetes Care” in LEPH, Winslow Auditorium at noon with a lunch and discussion with the speaker following at 1:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the New Haven community.

“Health disparities persist in New Haven and in the nation,” said Jeannette Ickovics, Ph.D., Director of Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE). “We need to understand the determinants and consequences of disparities so that we can intervene to reduce and strive to eliminate them.” Ickovics is also Professor and Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program (SBS) at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH).

The Public Health Grand Rounds series is hosted by YSPH faculty, Tené Lewis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in SBS and the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology (CDE) and Robert Dubrow, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor in CDE. It is sponsored by Pfizer, CARE (a program of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation), YSPH, Yale School of Nursing, Yale Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Association of Schools of Public Health.