The 2024 UAB Health Equity Research Symposium: Achieving Health Equity Through Community Engaged Research took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at the Hilton Birmingham Downtown at UAB (808 20th St S, Birmingham, AL 35205). The keynote address was given by Otis W. Brawley, M.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Every year the symposium highlights the work of undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral and faculty investigators in clinical, behavioral, social, and community-based research related to health equity and health disparities.
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About the 2024 Keynote Speaker
Otis W. Brawley, M.D
Otis W. Brawley, M.D., is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He is an authority on cancer screening and prevention and leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort focused on cancer health disparities at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Brawley is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and one of the few physicians to be named a Master of the American College of Physicians. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Brawley is a graduate of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at Case-Western Reserve University and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. He is board certified in Internal medicine and medical oncology.
Past Symposia
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2023: Turning the Vision of Health Equity Into a Reality
April, a month that shares the UAB Health Equity Research Symposium and National Minority Health Month are both celebrated to raise awareness about the health disparities, equity, premature mortality, chronic health conditions, and more faced by racial and ethnic minority groups. The conversations had during this month not only shine a light on the important work being done to improve the health and wellness of these groups but also helps shape the policies, systems, and environments that can reduce such disparities to create health equity.
The 16th UAB Health Equity Research Symposium (HERS) was the first in person since 2019. Formerly known as the Health Disparities Research Symposium, HERS was a day-long event comprised of poster sessions, oral presentations, and a keynote speaker.In attendance as the 2023 guest of honor was Wayne Giles, M.D., M.S., Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago. Before joining UIC, Giles spent 25 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he led the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, the Division of Population Health, and the Division for Adult and Community Health—all within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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2022: Moving from Health Disparities to Health Equity: Turning Vision Into Reality
The UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center presents the 2022 UAB Health Disparities Research Symposium. During this virtual session, speakers - Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., MHS, and George A. Mensah, M.D. - will share insights and practical steps to achieving health equity. The discussion will be moderated by
18th U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, M.D.
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2021: Canceled due to COVID-19
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2020: Obesity, the Common Denominator in Chronic Illness
Because of the ongoing situation with COVID-19, 2020's UAB Health Disparities Research Symposium has been cancelled.
- 2019: Addressing Health Disparities through Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes
- 2018: Social Determinants from the Global Perspective
- 2017: The Role of Social Determinants in Population Health
- 2016: The Science of Health Disparities: From Discovery to Delivery
- 2015: From Social Causes to Personalized Medicine
- 2014: Integrating Social and Biological Factors in Health Disparities Research
- 2013: Health Disparities: Where Biology, Behavior, and Socioeconomics Converge
- 2012: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
- 2011: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
- 2010: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
- 2009: Health Disparities and Genomics
- 2008: Health Disparities: From Discovery to Delivery
- 2007: Health Disparities: From Discovery to Delivery
- 2006: Eliminating Health Disparities: Obesity & Diabetes
- 2005: Minority Research Day
