Notice to Readers
Public Health Research Institute on Minority Health
The third annual Summer Public Health Research Institute on
Minority Health is June 22-27, 1997. Cosponsors are CDC, the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public
Health, and the Association of Schools for Public Health. This
session is designed to improve research methods, decision making,
policy development, and planning for minority health.
The institute will emphasize issues and solutions related to
collecting and analyzing data for racial and ethnic populations,
studying the relation between race and socioeconomic status,
identifying and reducing barriers to conducting research in
minority communities, and devising surveys to study minority
populations and subpopulations.
Participants will receive continuing education units. A
limited number of scholarships are available. Enrollment is limited
to 150 participants, and applications postmarked by May 2 will
receive first consideration.
Selected sessions from the institute will be available through
videoconferencing, and some of the locations will be designated as
interactive sites. Applications for prospective sites postmarked by
May 2 will receive first consideration.
Additional information about the institute or the
videoconference is available from the Minority Health Project,
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, 3104
McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, CB# 7400, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; telephone (919) 966-7012;
fax (919) 966-0119; e-mail: minority_health@unc.edu; World-Wide Web
site: http://www.minority.unc.edu.
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