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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Program for Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO) 16th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health is scheduled for Tuesday, June 8, 1:30-4:00pm EDT.  The videoconference entitled “What Will Health Care Reform Mean for Minority Health Disparities?” will feature Mayra Alvarez, M.H.A., Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin (Illinois); Ralph Forquera, M.P.H., Executive Director, Seattle Indian Health Board and Clinical Assistant Professor with the School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences at the University of Washington and Tony L. Whitehead, Ph.D., M.S.Hyg., Professor of Medical Anthropology and founding Director, Cultural Systems Analysis Group (CuSAG), Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland. This interactive session will be broadcast with a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of Social Work and can be viewed over the Internet (webcast). Questions will be taken from broadcast participants by email and toll-free telephone.

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