The UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center presents the 2023 UAB Health Equity Research Symposium, in person for the first time since 2019.The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center will host its annual UAB Health Equity Research Symposium on April 20 at the Hilton Birmingham. The symposium highlights work by academic investigators, students and community partners in basic science, clinical research, social and behavioral science, community-based, and health outcomes research the field of health equity.
The keynote speaker will be Wayne Giles, M.D., dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago. Prior to joining UIC, he spent 25 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, the Division of Population Health, and the Division of Adult and Community Health, all within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. His portfolio at the CDC included running one of the organization’s most diverse divisions with programmatic and research activities in community health promotion, arthritis, aging, health care utilization, school health, and racial and ethnic disparities in health.
In addition to hearing about the vision for health equity research from national experts, symposium guests will have access to breakout sessions on various health equity research topics.
The symposium is free and open to the public. The Hilton Birmingham at UAB is located at 808 20th St. South, Birmingham, AL 35205. Please visit the official registration website to register for the symposium.