During the summer of 2012, the Center hosted a series of summer institutes. Each institute consisted of two presentations by experts on racial health disparities in the Pittsburgh area, causes of these problems, and strategies for reducing the disparities. The audience of health care practitioners, students, and researchers discussed the presentations and additional ways that racial health disparities might be alleviated in the region. The institutes were generously funded by Highmark, Inc., UPMC Health Sciences Foundation, Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Falk Foundation.
June 28 Racial Health Disparities
- Overview to Racial Health Disparities in Allegheny County
Jeannette South-Paul, UPMC and University of Pittsburgh - Community-Based Approaches to Reducing Racial Health Disparities among Adolescents
Elizabeth Miller, Children’s Hospital
June 29 Racial Health Disparities
- Ending Racial Disparities in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation
Galen Switzer, University of Pittsburgh and VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System - How to Curtail Racial Disparities in Elder Care
Steve Albert, University of Pittsburgh
July 18 Racial Health Disparities
- Programs to Diminish Racial Disparities in Diabetes
Mim Seidel, Chatham University - Promising Practices for Decreasing Adult Health Disparities
Rhonda Moore Johnson, Highmark Inc.
July 26 Racial Health Disparities
- Racial Disparities in Cancer and Decreasing Disparities in Prostate Cancer
Raymond B. Wynn, UPMC - Interventions for Decreasing Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer
Lyn Robertson, University of Pittsburgh