Brian Smedley, Ph.D., Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The Institute's mission is to generate policy recommendations on long-standing health equity concerns. Dr. Smedley was co-founder of The Opportunity Agenda, an organization dedicated to ensuring equity in health care reform.
Panel: Robert Gold, Ph.D, University of Maryland.; Elaine Anderson, Ph.D., University of Maryland; Alan Acock, Ph.D, Oregon State University; Kathleen M. Roche, Ph.D., George Washington University
Barbara Fiese, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign and Director of the Family Resiliency Center. Her research focuses on family-level factors that promote health and well-being in children. Under her leadership the Family Resiliency Center is engaged in numerous initiatives related to families, food, and child health.
Alex Ortega, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health, Professor of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Health Services
Jacquelyn Campbell, Ph.D., Anna D. Wolf Chair and Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, has conducted research in the areas of family violence and health disparities related to trauma since 1980. She has received 10 major NIH, National Institute of Justice or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research grants and published more than 150 articles and seven books on violence against women.
This invited symposium addresses the critical problem of health disparities facing women of color and other women living in the margins of society, and their families. Drs. Norwood and Coehlo will review briefly the literature on health disparities related to women’s health (preconception, prenatal care, infant mortality) and those evidenced in among children with special health care needs.
Professor Joyce Arditti at Virginia Tech talks about her research on parental incarceration and the transformative effect it had on her scholarship. Criminology has long been examined in the social sciences. However, Dr. Arditti has added a family lens to this area of study. Her ground-breaking research is now published in her new book on parental incarceration.
