Despite continual advancements in public health initiatives, significant disparities among racial and ethnically defined groups persist. This workshop highlights some of these issues and addresses how medical students and practitioners can train to improve clinical practice, diagnosis, and treatment for diverse. Panelists: Dr. Lee Jacobs practiced as an internist and infectious disease physician and is also the Executive Director of Bethesda Referral & Teaching Hospital, with the principal purpose of organizing and operating the hospital in Haiti. In 1992, Dr. Jacobs founded Central Asian Partners, Inc., a nonprofit organization that partnered with the Minister of Health in Kyrgyzstan to assist this new nation in improving health care throughout the country.
Stephen Gurleyis a 4th
year MD/MPH candidate at Emory University Schools of Medicine and Public
Health, and the President of the 501c3 Health Students Taking Action Together
(H-STAT), a nonprofit which unites health professional graduate students across
Georgia to improve the health of all Georgians through advocacy, activism,
education, and service. Learn more at www.hstatga.org.