Researching Social Inequalities in Health

The annual Workshop on Health Disparities was held on June 12, 2000, at the Harvard School of Public Health. The workshop entitled, Researching Social Inequalities in Health, was sponsored by the Departments of Biostatistics. Funding for the workshop is provided by the the National Institutes of Health and Merck Research Laboratories, which also provide funds for the Summer Minority Programs.

The workshop is an effort to provide researchers, post and predoctoral students and doctors with some initiatives on community-based research nationwide. Six speakers presented a variety of research projects ranging from a local Asthma study to nutrition study for African-Americans. The workshops attendance exceeded expectations.

Speakers

Douglas Brugge
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Tufts University School of Medicine

"Housing Conditions and Respiratory Health in Boston Public Housing"

 

Cheryl Clark
DS-Student
Department of Health and Social Behavior
Harvard School of Public Health

"Maternal Violence Exposure as a Predictor of Low Birth Weight Infants"

 

Bill Jenkins, Ph.D., MPH
Epidemiologist
US Centers for Disease Control

"Implications of the Tuskegee Study for Public Health Scientist of the 21 Century"

 

Louise M. Ryan Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Summer Minority Program Director
Harvard School of Public Health

Mistress of Ceremony

Shiriki Kumanyika, Ph.D. MPH
Associate Dean
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

"Nutrition Interventions for Improvement of African Americans' Health"

 

Rosalind Wright, MPH
 Instructor in Medicine
 Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr./Harvard Medical School

"Putting Asthma Into Context"

 

Selected Publications

Dr. Douglas Brugge

Hynes P, D Brugge, J Watts, J Lally. Public health and physical environment in Boston public housing (in press, J. Planning, Practice, and Research).

Brugge D, A Leong, A Averbach, F Cheung. 2000. An environmental health survey of residents of Boston Chinatown. Journal of Immigrant Health. 2:97-111.

Brugge D, A Leong, Z Lai. 1999. Can a community inject public health values into transportation questions? Public Health Reports. 114:40-47.

Brugge D, T Benally, P Harrison, M Austin-Garrison, L Fasthorse-Begay. 1997. Memories come to us in the rain and the wind: Oral histories and photographs of Navajo uranium miners and their families. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

Brugge D, D Toomey, J Piechek. 1997. Indoor air quality in schools: The crisis and organizing efforts. New Solutions. 7: 78-90.

Brugge D. 1995. Market share legislation: Holding the lead pigment companies accountable for their role in lead poisoning. New Solutions. 5: 74-80.