5th Annual Health Disparities Conference

DISCUSSION TOPIC: Strategies to Promote a Focus on Mental and Physical Health in Hip Hop Culture: A Community Discussion on Community Assets and Capacity for Taking Action Steps to Promote Health and Reduce Health Disparities through Hip Hop, Christopher Emdin, Ph.D. Co-Director, Annual Health Disparities Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, Co- Director of the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education (CHEUSE) and CHEUSE Director of Urban Science Education, Assistant Professor of Science Education, Director of Secondary School Initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY SPECIAL GUEST COMMENTATORS CO-LEADING DISCUSSION Rahiel Tesfamariam, Columnist and blogger for The Washington Post. Founder/Editorial Director of Urban Cusp, an online lifestyle magazine highlighting progressive urban culture, faith, social change and global awareness. Follow her on Twitter @RahielT; Timothy Jones, Content Specialist for #HipHopEd (Here, helping to celebrate the First Annual #HipHopEd Meetup as a new conference feature.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Home Visitation Program as a Barrier to Infant Mortality: A Baltimore Story, Ndidi Amutah, Ph.D MPH, CHES, Montclair State University. Mounting a Statewide Initiative to Reduce Infant Death in the Black Community, Ilise Zimmerman, MPH, MS; Carolyn DeBoer, M.S., Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern NJ.

Understanding HIV/AIDS Syndemics and Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS: An Urban Community Research Perspective, Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D., Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Co-Director of the Community Research Group, Co-Director of the Program in Urbanism and the Built Environment in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, NY, NY.

Reducing Educationally Relevant Health Disparities: Strategies to Close the Educational Achievement Gap for Urban Youth and a National Research and Policy Agenda Charles E. Basch, Ph.D., Richard March Hoe Professor of Health Education, Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health, Social Justice, and the Domestic HIV/AIDS Epidemic. David Satcher, MD, Ph.D., Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute; Director, Center of Excellence on Health Disparities; 16th Surgeon General of the United States; Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

For Registered Students in HBSS5800: Other Conference Attendees Also Invited. Barbara C. Wallace, Ph.D., Co-Director, Annual Health Disparities Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education (CHEUSE) and CHEUSE Director of Health Equity, Professor of Health Education, Coordinator of the Program in Health Education, Founding Director of the Research Group on Disparities in Health, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Contemporary Youth, Hip-Hop, and Urban Science Education: The Role of Multimedia Educational Technology in Disseminating the Science Needed for Community Empowerment to Reduce and Eliminate Health Disparities Christopher Emdin, Ph.D. Co-Director, Annual Health Disparities Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education (CHEUSE) and CHEUSE Director of Urban Science Education, Assistant Professor of Science Education, Director of Secondary School Initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Culturally Appropriate Research, Practice, and Policy Approaches to Health Disparities within a Stress and Coping Bio-Psycho-Social-Environmental-Cultural Framework, Barbara C. Wallace, Ph.D., Founding Director, Co-Director, Annual Health Disparities Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education (CHEUSE) and CHEUSE Director of Health Equity, Prof. Health Education, Coordinator of the Program in Health Education, Founding Director of the Research Group on Disparities in Health, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Nana Korantema Ayeboafo and the African Ensemble

CHEUSE CO-DIRECTORS: PROFESSORS WALLACE & EMDIN DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY WITTHIN CHEUSE - Barbara C. Wallace, Ph.D., Founding Director, Co-Director, Annual Health Disparities Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education (CHEUSE) and CHEUSE Director of Health Equity, Professor of Health Education, Coordinator of the Program in Health Education, Founding Director of the Research Group on Disparities in Health, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR URBAN SCIENCE EDUCATION WITHIN CHEUSE - Christopher Emdin, Ph.D. Co-Director, Annual Health Disparities Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education (CHEUSE) and CHEUSE Director of Urban Science Education, Assistant Professor of Science Education, Director of Secondary School Initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY