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 The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has proposed changing its Current Employment Statistics Survey to stop asking employers for their number of female workers. In 2003, California voters rejected a constitutional initiative that would have prevented the state’s agencies from collecting information about people’s race and ethnicity. The 2000 U.S. census provided Americans for the first time with an opportunity to check multiple race/ethnicity categories. What do all three situations have in common? They potentially impact the kind of data available to monitor health disparities. In the final symposium of the "Health Disparities & the Body Politic" series, an international group of speakers will discuss the politics of public health data–both its presence and its absence–and how health statistics systems shape knowledge about disparities. International Speakers: John Fox, Director of Statistics, Department of Health, United Kingdom; François Héran, Director, Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, Paris, France; Vickie Mays, Professor of Clinical Psychology, UCLA; Eduardo Mota, Chief of Health Statistics, Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Brazil Discussant: Godfrey Woelk, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe Moderator: Nancy Krieger, HSPH Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health "Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics Systems to Action" Thursday, May 5 Harvard Conference Center Amphitheatre, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. To register free of charge, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities/index.html Harvard Public Health NOW is published biweekly by the Office of Communications Harvard School of Public Health 665 Huntington Ave., SPH 1-1312 Boston, Massachusetts 02115 617-432-6052 Editor and Layout: Christina Roache Contributing Writers: Eileen McCluskey, Carol Cruzan Morton Photos Credits: Suzanne Camarata Archived Issues || HSPH Home Copyright, 2009, President and Fellows of Harvard College |
