Speakers

 

Name Institution/Organization Focus Title of Presentation
Alaerte Leandro Martins  Women's Health Network of Latin America & the Caribbean Brazil The Racial Divide in Maternal Mortality in Brazil
 James Corbett Harvard Medical School Diaspora Leaning from the Past:  Health Care Systems in the African Diaspora
Andreia Beatriz Silva Dos Santos State  University of Feira de Santana Brazil Dying While Black: Race and Ethnicity in the Coroner's Office in Salvador, Bahia
 Olga Davis   Arizona State University Diaspora The Kitchen Legacy:  The Health Experience of Black Female Slaves in the Americas
 Corliss Heath University of South Florida USA/UK Race and Stress among Black Women in the United States and United Kingdom
 Maria-Theresa Okafor University of Maryland-Baltimore County USA Coming to America:  Modern Cultural Adaptation and the Health of African Immigrants in the United States
Delia Reuben  York University Canada Exploring the Lives of Black Canadian Men with Schizophrenia in Greater Toronto
Kwaku Adomako African and Black Diaspora Global Network Diaspora Here, There and Everywhere:  The Ubiquitous Burden of HIV/AIDS for African Descent Populations in the Americas
Benjamin Bowser California State University, East Bay Diaspora Checkup:  The Health Status of Blacks in the Western Hemisphere
Raquel Casares Complutense Institute of International Relations, Complutense University of Madrid Dominican Republic HIV Epidemic and the Bateyes Sugar Cane Plantation Workers in the Dominican Republic
Andres I. Vecino Ortiz Johns Hopkins Colombia The Health Status of Afro-Colombians
Eleanor Fleming                     Centers for Disease Control and Prevention USA Social Determinants of Health and Health Differences between Native and Foreign-born Blacks in the United States
Lauren Johnson University of South Florida Jamaica Sex Trade, HIV/AIDS, and Jobless Men in a Jamaican Resort Town
Josephine Etowa University of Ottawa Canada Dialogues in Nova Scotia: The Impact of Racism on Black Canadian Rural Women
Noel Brathwaite University of the Southern Caribbean Caribbean Premature Death: Mortality Patterns Among African Descendants in the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean
Fatimah Jackson University of Toronto Canada/           Barbados Depression Among Caribbean Women of African Descent in Toronto and Barbados
Kwasi Konadu City University of New York Diaspora The Transatlantic Slave System, Slaving Diets,  Contemporary Health Challenges
Damiana de Miranda World Learning/SIT  Brazil Can Brazil's National Health Care Policy Close the Gap for Afro-Brazilians
Edna Araujo State  University of Feira de Santana Brazil Race and Skin:  Health Inequality in Brazil
Pedro Ordunez-Garcia Johns Hopkins Cuba Hypertension in Cuba: Evidence of a Narrow Black-White Difference
Mirtha Colon Hondurans Against AIDS Honduas History, Culture, & HIV/AIDS among Afro-Central Americans
Michael Blakey College of William and Mary USA The Ancestors' Bodies:  Markers of Individual and Community Health in New York's African Burial Ground
Richard Cooper Loyola University Medical School USA Excess Pressure: Hypertension Patterns among Slave Descendants in the 21st Century
Colwick Wilson University of Michigan Trinidad and Tobago Laying the Burden Down: Suicide Patterns among Black Teenagers in Trinidad and Tobago
Rick Kittles  University of Illinois USA Race, Skin Color, and Genetic Ancestry: Implications for Biomedical Research on Health Disparities
Ciann Wilson York University Canada Let's Talk About Sex and Money: HIV in Toronto's Historic Jane-Finch Community
Diane Brown University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ Caribbean The Rising Chronic Disese Epidemic in the Caribbean
David Williams Harvard School of Public Health Caribbean The Health Status of African Descendants in the Caribbean
Roberto Rojas Organization of American States Peru Invisible People: Challenges of Collecting Health and Census Data on Afro-Peruvians and other African Descent Populations in Latin America
Loverne Jacobs-Browne University of the Southern Caribbean St. Vincent Plantation Inheritance: From Emancipation to Contemporary Racial Inequities in Health in St. Vincent
Ben Vinson, III Johns Hopkins Diaspora Common Journey, Different Destinations:  History of the African Diaspora of the Western Hemisphere
Michael Hanchard Johns Hopkins Diaspora The Illusive Meaning and Utility of "Race":  A Cross-National Comparison
Charles Rotimi Center for Research on Genomic and Global Health Diaspora Myths and Lessons:  Understanding Genetics and Health in the African Diaspora 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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