REGISTRATION AND SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE – CLICK HERE
Action on Health Disparities: Global and Local (April 20-22, 2010) will bring together students, consumers, practitioners, and scholars in dialogue about effective strategies to address health care disparities and to serve medically underserved populations locally and internationally. The symposium, funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region, features scholars from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Simon Fraser University, as well as from UT Southwestern Medical School.
UT Southwestern’s faculty and students are involved in Dallas in many public health, research, and clinical initiatives providing care in historically underserved communities. Internationally, UT Southwestern students and faculty work in dozens of countries, from Peru to Uganda, on clinical and public health programs. Shortly after assuming the presidency of UT Southwestern in 2008, Dr. Daniel Podolsky announced as one of seven top priorities his intention to “develop programs focused on the health care issues of the underserved – both global and within our own community/country.” The symposium will celebrate this effort and challenge the university and Dallas community to do more work, and more effective work, to alleviate health disparities.
Keynote speakers include:

• Dr. Arachu Castro, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Advisor for Mexico and Project Manager for Guatemala at Partners In Health, and Medical Anthropologist in the Division of Global Health Equity in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts;
• Dr. Gilbert Burnham, Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response;
• Dr. Craig Janes, Professor and Director of Global Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, and Vice-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research.

Scholars from UT Southwestern scheduled to address the symposium include Dr. George Lister, Dr. Nora Gimpel, Dr. Glenn Flores, Dr. Paul Pepe, Dr. Ramona Rhodes, and Dr. Mark DeHaven (also with UNT Health Science Center).

For more information, please email John Fullinwider at the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library or phone 214-648-3801.
Organized by the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library, the symposium is co-sponsored by the following: UT School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus; from UT Southwestern Medical Center: School of Health Professions, Department of Clinical Sciences, Program in Ethics in Science & Medicine, Division of Community Medicine, Student International Health Interest Group, and Medical Humanities Interest Group; from Southern Methodist University: Office of the Provost, Dedman College, Office for Research & Graduate Studies, and Department of Anthropology; also American Medical Student Association/Dallas, American Medical Women’s Association/Dallas, Dallas County Health & Human Services Public Health Advisory Committee, and Dallas Ft. Worth Area Health Education Center.