Agenda
8:30 a.m. Welcome
Dr. John E. Maupin Jr., President
The Morehouse School of Medicine
Dr. Gary Nelson, President
Healthcare Georgia Foundation
Member, Roundtable on Health Disparities
8:40 a.m. Key Note Address
Dr. Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States,
Director of The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine
9:00 a.m. Investments to Promote Children’s Health: A Systematic Literature Review and Economic Analysis of Interventions in the Preschool Period
Dr. Bernard Guyer, Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Clinical Practice and Community Building: Addressing Racial Disparities in Healthy Child Development
Dr. Charles Bruner, Executive Director
Child Family Policy Center
Dr. Edward Schor, Vice President
Child Development and Preventive Care Program
The Commonwealth Fund
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. From Policy to Practice: How Can Policy Changes Affect Children’s Lives?
Christine Ferguson, Associate Research Professor of Health Policy
The George Washington University
Yvonne Sanders-Butler, Principal
Browns Mill Elementary and Magnet for High Achievers
11:15 a.m. Audience Discussion
11:45 a.m. LUNCH—Auditorium Lobby
1:00 p.m. Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Mildred Thompson, Senior Director
PolicyLink
1:45 p.m. Community Development Approaches: Overcoming Challenges, Striving for Change
Veda Johnson
Whitefoord Community Program, and
Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Marshall Kreuter, Professor of Public Health
Georgia State University
Wayne Giles, Director
Division of Adult and Community Health
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Do Businesses have a Role in Improving Communities or Improving Children’s Lives?
Sandra White, Medical Director
WellPoint, Inc.
Frances W. Thompkins Director of Community Relations and Vice-President
ING Foundation
Michele Courton-Brown, Senior Vice President of Charitable Management Services
Bank of America
4:15 p.m. Audience Discussion
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
Back to Meeting