The Virginia Public Health Association and the Health Equity Conference Planning Committee cordially invite you and your members to attend the upcoming two-day Health Equity Conference, Advancing Health Equity: From Theory to Practice on September 10-11, 2009 at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center in Richmond, Virginia.
The conference will serve as a forum to discuss practices and policies that strengthen community health and well-being. Root, social, political and economic causes of health inequities in Virginia will be addressed. The goal of the conference is to increase the knowledge and ability of attendees to advance health equity through policies and practices that promote healthy communities.
Nationally renowned conference speakers include:
- Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California, San Francisco
- Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH, DrPH, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
- James H. Johnson Jr., Ph.D., Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center, University of North Carolina School of Business
- Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, Ph.D., Research Director on Social Determinants of Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC and featured in the award-winning PBS series documentary, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
- Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, MA, Director of the Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness and featured in the award-winning PBS series documentary, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
- Stephen H. Woolf, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Visit the website to learn about and register for this conference. We look forward to your participation.
Register now to take advantage of our early bird registration discount rates.
Download our conference flyer to spread the word about the Health Equity Conference to your colleagues, partners and networks.
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