Calendar of Events: Archive
April 2008
21st Anniversary of National Minority Cancer Awareness Week
04/20/2008
On April 8, 1987, the U. S. House of Representatives Joint Resolution 119 designated the third week in April as "National Minority Cancer Awareness Week." It has been almost 22 years since I approached Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Representative Mervyn Dymally to support a joint resolution to designate the full third week in April as National Minority Cancer Awareness Week. As explained in the Congressional Record, the resolution drew attention to "an unfortunate, but extremely important fact about cancer.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in collaboration with California Newsreel, One Economy Corporation and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) will conduct a workshop entitled “The Social Determinants of Health: How and Why They are Integral to Health Equity” during the 2008 Congressional Black Caucus Spring Health Braintrust.
The First Annual Freedom’s Voice Conference sponsored by Community Voices at the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine is confirmed for April 9 -11, 2008. The academic conference will be an unprecedented assembly of the nation’s academic, political, and advocacy headers on healthcare, healthcare disparities, civil rights, and successful community reentry. Attendees will be stakeholders from many venues including academia, health care industry, government, and the public. Panel discussions, case studies, and interactive presentations will set the stage for the culminating event, the Freedom’s Voice Gala.
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies 2008 Annual Dinner
04/08/2008
November 2007
Annual Meeting of the World Conference of Mayors, Inc and the National Conference of Black Mayors
11/28/2007
HPI-cosponsored screening of Unnatural Causes
11/05/2007
HPI-cosponsored screening of Unnatural Causes (to be released by PBS in 2008)
Auditorium, Marriott Renaissance Hotel
Panel discussion at American Public Health Association 2007 Annual Meeting & Exposition
Washington, DC
JOINT CENTER'S BOSITIS TALKS ABOUT MINORITY VOTING PATTERNS
11/05/2007
David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, will talk about minority voting patterns in presidential elections at a symposium, on Monday, Nov. 5, sponsored by the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies/Johns Hopkins University (www.sais-jhu.edu) and the Universite Paris I(Pantheon-Sorbonne).
The symposium will take place at the Nitze School in Washington D.C.. Bositis will talk about Minority Voting Patterns in Presidential Elections: Implications for 2008, at 11:30 a.m. The symposium is open to the public. Bositis's presentation is part of a research symposium called The Politics of National Identity in Presidental Elections in France and the United States.
September 2007
2007 Annual Black Women's Agenda Workshop - Health Forum
09/28/2007
Sponsored by Joint Center Health Policy Institute and Black Women's Agenda
Annual Legislative Conference, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation - NPA
09/26/2007
"The Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) is considered to be the premier African American conference on policy issues. The ALC provides the platform for the 42 African American Members of Congress to share the progress of their work on legislative items and also allows for the exchange of ideas correlated to policy issues that are of critical concern to their constituents. While the ALC provides the opportunity for attendees to acquaint themselves with the 42 Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the ALC is also a time for people from across the nation to come together in one place, at one time to focus on the pressing issues that challenge Black America."
May 2007
Women's Health Policy Summit
05/24/2007