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The Congressional Black Caucus HEALTH
& ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE BRAINTRUSTS
Medical
University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC
June 7 &
8, 2002
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Friday, June 7, 2002
8 - 8:45 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Lobby, MUSC Basic Science Building Auditorium
9 am
Welcome
Raymond S. Greenberg, MD, Ph.D., President, Medical University
of SC, Charleston, SC
Opening Remarks
Congressman James E. Clyburn, Chair, CBC Environmental Justice
Braintrust, 6th District, SC
Congresswoman Donna Christian-Christensen, MD, Chair, CBC
Health Braintrust, Delegate, VI
The Honorable Jim Hodges, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia,
SC
The Honorable Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor of Charleston,
SC
Members of Congress from SC Delegation
SC Legislative Black Caucus Representative
The Honorable Marcia Glenn, 1st Vice President, National
Conference of Black Mayors, Lithonia, GA
9:40 am
Overview of Health and Environmental Disparities in Region 4
Russell Wright, Special Assistant to the Regional Administrator,
US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, Atlanta, GA
Reed Tuckson, MD, Senior Vice-President, Consumer Health
& Medical Care Advancement, UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis,
MN
10:10 am
The Roots of the Problem: Genetics, Environment, Personal and Institutional
Behavior
Moderator: Marlon Priest, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine,
Scholar, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
Lenore T. Coleman, Pharm.D., CDE, FASHP, President and CEO
Total Lifestyle Change, Inc., Long Beach, CA
Jewel Crawford, MD, Medical Director, Office of Urban Affairs,
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD., Research Director on
Social Determinants of Health in the Division of Adult and Community
Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Atlanta, GA
Gilbert Parks, MD, Private Practice Physician, Topeka, KS
11:10 am Break
11:20 am
Region 4 Health Disparities, Health Status and Healthy People 2010
Moderator: Jennifer Friday, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist,
The MayaTech Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Richard Klein, MPH, Lead Statistician, Health Promotion Data
Monitoring and Analysis, Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health
Promotion, CDC National Center for Health Statistics
Arlene Lester, Regional Consultant for Minority Health, US
Public Health Service, Region 4
Rev. Dr. Allen W. Parrott, Presiding Elder of the Kingstree
District, Palmetto Conference, African Methodist Episcopal (AME)
Church, Kingstree, SC
Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Acting Director, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ), Department of Health and Human Services,
Rockville, MD
12 pm
Health Profession Diversity: The Pipeline, The Researcher, The
Agenda
Moderator: Kenneth Don Mosely, Ph.D., Professor and Chairperson
of the Department of Health and Physical Education at South Carolina
State University, Orangeburg, SC
Cynthia Harris, Ph.D., DABT, Director of the Institute of
Public Health, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
Bill Jenkins, Ph.D. Coordinator of Minority Health Programs,
National Center HIV/AIDS, STD, TB Prevention, CDC; Atlanta, GA
Harris Pastides, Ph.d., Dean of the School of Public Health
and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
University of South Caro-lina, Columbia, SC
Florene Linnen, Director, Georgetown County Diabetes Core
Group, Health Director for the Georgetown District of the AME Church,
Georgetown, SC
1 pm
Closing Remarks
1:15 pm
Lunch
Lunch is vailable in the lobby. Please take a lunch and enjoy the
beautiful MUSC campus. Food is not permitted in the Auditorium
2 pm
Listening Session Conducted by National Environmental Policy Commission
Opening Remarks
Congressman James E. Clyburn, Chair, CBC Environmental Justice
Braintrust, 6th District, SC
Elected Officials
Remarks From NEPC Chairpersons
Sue Briggum, Ph.D., JD, Director of Government and Environmental
Affairs,, Waste Management, Washington, D.C.
Mildred McClain, Ed.D., Executive Director of the Harambee
House, Inc., Citizens For Environmental Justice, and Black Youth
Leadership Development Institute Inc., Savannah, GA
Richard Moore, Executive Director, Southwest Network for
Environmental and Economic Justice, Albuquerque, NM
Public Participation
Those attending the listening session may submit written and/or
verbal remarks for the record. Participants are encouraged to focus
on issue identification and recommendations for action.
Those wishing to address the Commission will have 3 minutes.
4:30 pm
Close of Listening Session
Saturday, June 8, 2002
8 - 8:45 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Lobby, MUSC Basic Science Building Auditorium
9 am
Listening Session Conducted by National Environmental Policy Commission
Opening Remarks
Congressman James E. Clyburn, Chair, CBC Environmental Justice
Braintrust, SC
Public Participation
Those attending the listening session may submit written and/or
verbal remarks for the record. Participants are encouraged to focus
on issue identification and recommendations for action.
Those wishing to address the Commission will have 3 minutes.
12 pm
Close of Listening Session
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