2016 Diversity in Public Health Summit
Hosted by: The Multicultural Public Health Student Association (MPHSA) at The Ohio State University College of Public Health Date: Saturday, April 9th Time: 8:30am-3pm Location: The Ohio State University Biomedical Research Tower 460 W 12th Ave Columbus, OH 43210 Parking: Parking Garage: 12th Avenue 340 W 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-diversity-in-public-health-summit-registration-21781602359 |
Keynote Speaker: Robert E. Fullilove
The keynote speaker for the event is Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D. who is the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Professor of Clinical Socio-medical Sciences and Co-Director of the Cities Research Group at The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Fullilove has authored numerous articles in the area of minority health. From 1995 to 2001, he served on the Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academy of Sciences. Since 1996, he has served on five IOM study committees that have produced reports on a variety of topics including substance abuse and addiction, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and damp indoor spaces and health. In 2003, he was designated a National Associate of the National Academies of Science. In 1998 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention (ACHSP) at the Centers for Disease Control, and in July, 2000, he became the committee's co-chair. Between 2004-2007, he served on the National Advisory Council for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health [NIH]. Since 2010, he has been teaching public health courses in six New York State prisons that are part of the Bard College Prison Initiative (BPI) and he is concurrently serving as the Senior Advisor to BPI's public health program. Dr. Fullilove serves on the editorial boards of the journals Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and the Journal of Public Health Policy. He has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Mailman School of Public Health three times (in 1995, 2001, and 2013), and in May, 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bank Street College of Education.