Center for the Study of the American South

January 19th Hutchins Lecture with Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith

Posted 01/20/2012

January 19th Hutchins Lecture  with Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith

Through Their Lens: Understanding and Advocating for Health Equity

4:30 pm
Kresge Foundation Common Room (039) at the Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence in Graham Memorial Hall
Free and Open to the Public

Dr. Corbie-Smith is co-director of the Program on Health Disparities at the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and principal investigator of Project GRACE, a community-based participatory research partnership that is developing culturally sensitive and sustainable interventions to prevent HIV in rural African American communities in eastern North Carolina. She is also the director of the Minority Recruitment Core of the Carolina-Shaw Partnership for the Elimination of Health Disparities. Introduction by Gail E. Henderson, PhD, Chair, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill.