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NIH Establishes New Genomics and Health Disparities Center
March 2008 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) establishes new center for genomics and health disparities research.

Health Status Disparities in the U.S. Conference Papers Now Posted
JANUARY 2008 - Edited transcripts and a paper from the April 2007 Health Status Disparities in the United States Conference are now posted.

Toronto Bulletin: HIV/AIDS & Security Issues
AUGUST 2006--Selected Headlines from the XVI International AIDS Conference




Events
Health Care in Crisis: What’s Driving Health Reform in Canada and the United States?
Wednesday, April 16 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Antonia Maioni, Visiting Scholar, McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University Faculty of Medicine; Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus, Politics, Public Policy, and Law, Yale University School of Management
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Public Health Democracy: U.S. and Global Health Disparities in Breast Cancer
Wednesday, April 02 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Doris Browne, Program Director of the Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Peter Greenwald, Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Lucile Adams-Campbell, Director of the Howard University Cancer Center, and Professor of Medicine
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Ethical Decision-Making at the End of Life
Monday, March 10 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Edmund Pellegrino, Chairman, President's Council on Bioethics; K. Eric De Jonge, Director of Geriatrics, Washington Hospital Center; Jennifer L. Crawley, Senior Social Worker, Washington Hospital Center; Marie T. Connolly, former coordinator of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative, and Fellow, Wilson Center; Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Chair in Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, and Fellow, Wilson Center.
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Global Epidemics: The Contribution of Work
Wednesday, March 05 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Peter Schnall, Professor of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, and Director, Center for Social Epidemiology; Paul Landsbergis, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Marnie Dobson, Associate Director, Center for Social Epidemiology, and Research Associate, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at University of California, Irvine; Ellen Rosskam, Southeast Europe Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Josh Bivens, Economist, Economic Policy Institute
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Book Discussion - Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Thursday, October 18 2007, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
With Paul V. Dutton, Associate Professor of History at Northern Arizona University. Commentator: Kimberly J. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University
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