The mission of the Center on Social
Disparities in Health is to address the need for more reliable and timely
information, as well as better use of existing information, to guide efforts
to reduce social disparities in the United States and other countries.
Since its inception in 2002, the Center has focused on three main objectives:
(1) conducting policy-relevant research and monitoring of social disparities
in health, primarily in maternal and infant health; (2) providing training
in sound methods for studying social disparities in health; and (3) widely
disseminating our own and related work to audiences including researchers,
state and local health departments, policy makers, and the public. These
objectives have shaped a process of developing innovative descriptive,
explanatory, and methodologic research and ongoing monitoring of socioeconomic,
racial/ethnic, and other social disparities in health and health care.
By bringing together a critical mass of multi-disciplinary expertise and
effectively integrating research and monitoring with training and dissemination,
the Center aims to continue to make major contributions toward informing
policy to guide the reduction of health disparities in the United States
and globally.
2012-2013 HEALTH DISPARITIES SEMINAR SPEAKERS
(TOPICS TBA)
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Wendy Berry Mendes, Ph.D.
Sarlo/Ekman Chair in the Study of Human Emotion
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
12:00-1:30 pm, Laurel Heights, Room 474
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Osagie K. Obasogie, JD, PhD
Associate Professor of Law
UC Hastings College of the Law
Associate Adjunct Professor
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
12:00-1:30 pm, Laurel Heights, Room 474
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
David H. Rehkopf, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
General Medical Disciplines
Stanford School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
12:00-1:30 pm, Laurel Heights, Room 474
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Kevin Grumbach, MD
Professor & Chair
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
12:00-1:30 pm, Laurel Heights, Room 376
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Barbara A. Koenig, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Anthropology & Bioethics
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Institute for Health & Aging
University of California, San Francisco
12:00-1:30 pm, Laurel Heights, Room 474
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