Calendar of Events: Archive
July 2010
Critical Issues in Climate Change Speaker Series
07/27/2010
April 2010
2010 40th Anniversary Gala Dinner
04/27/2010
September 2009
Health Briefing
09/17/2009
Climate Change Tele-press Conference
09/10/2009
July 2009
May 2009
Congressional Briefing on Addressing the Needs of Young men of Color
05/15/2009
July 2008
Joint Center President's News Conference on Energy and the Environment
07/29/2008
July 29, 2008: Joint Center President and CEO Ralph B. Everett joins Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis; U.S. House of Representatives and Majority Whip James E. Clyburn; other leading African American experts and policymakers on energy and the environment at a 10 a.m. press conference at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC.
Joint Center's Health Policy Institute convenes a meeting in Oakland, CA
07/23/2008
July 23-25: Joint Center's Health Policy Institute convenes a meeting in Oakland, CA, of its 16 Place Matters teams to discuss reducing health disparities.
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.