HEALTH DISPARITIES SEMINAR SERIES

The University of Connecticut Health Disparities Institute (HDI), a collaborative initiative to reduce health disparities across Connecticut, announces the inauguration of the annual Health Disparities Institute Seminar Series,

Health Disparities through the lens of Research, Capacity Building, Outreach & Engagement and Policy.

There are four speakers for 2014. The first speaker is:

Dr. Chau Trinh-Shevrin, who will present on Large Research Initiative/Health Equity/P60 Center of Excellence on Thursday, January 30, 2014, 4:00-6:00 p.m., at Cell and Genomics Sciences, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT. Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health and the Department of Medicine at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Within the Department of Population Health, she serves as Director of Large Research Initiatives and heads the Section for Health Equity. She also directs the Office of Community Engagement for the NYU-Health and Hospitals Corporation Clinical and Translational Science Institute, developing community-engaged research and research training initiatives.

Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is a social epidemiologist with a doctorate in public health from Columbia University and a master in health policy and management at the University of New York at Albany. Her work focuses primarily on understanding, addressing, and reducing health disparities of racial and ethnic minority and other underserved populations.

The deadline for registering for the January 30 seminar is January 23, 2014. To register for any of the seminars, go to the following website: http://healthdisparities.uchc.edu/news/seminar_series/registration.aspx.