Symposium: How Do Race, Genetics And Health-Care Disparities Affect Spread Of HIV?
Main Category: HIV / AIDSAlso Included In: Conferences; Public Health; Genetics
Article Date: 11 Sep 2008 - 4:00 PDT
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WHAT:
This half-day symposium, featuring speakers and panelists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, the UCLA AIDS Institute, and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, will address the ways in which genetics, race and health care disparities prevent or promote the acquisition of HIV. The event, sponsored by the UCLA AIDS Institute, will include a press conference and individual interview opportunities with speakers.
WHO:
Symposium speakers will include:
- Stephen J. O'Brien, chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute
- Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Irvin S.Y. Chen, director of the UCLA AIDS Institute
- Gail Wyatt, associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institute and director of the Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities at UCLA
- John K. Williams, assistant professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA
10:30 a.m. to 15.00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17
WHERE:
Lakretz Hall, 619 Charles E. Young Drive East, on the UCLA campus
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Source: Enrique Rivero
University of California - Los Angeles
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