The 2015 Ann Dial McMillan Endowed Lectureship in Family and Child Health will feature James W. Collins, M.D., MPH, professor of pediatrics-neonatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. This is part of the lecture series at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health.
Collins will present “A Life-Course Perspective of the Racial Disparity in Adverse Birth Outcomes: ZIP Code Trumps Genetic Code” from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the UAB Alumni House Auditorium, 1301 10th Ave. South. This event is free and open to public.
The Ann Dial McMillan Endowed Lectureship in Family and Child Health is a unique interdisciplinary lectureship designed to tap into and promote public health breakthroughs relevant to family and children’s health. Lectures address challenges and innovations in maternal and child health with a special focus on issues that affect everyday life, such as nutrition, diabetes, cancer, obesity, substance abuse and other salient topics. The goal of the lecture is to promote the health of children, their families and the community as a whole by educating the academic community about new discoveries in family and children’s health practices.