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The 49th Poindexter Award & Ceremony Dinner

FROM HILDRUS A. POINDEXTER TO GEORGES C. BENJAMIN: HIDDEN FIGURES OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Tuesday, November 7, 2017
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive Southwest
Atlanta, Georgia 30310

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$45 - Students
$45 - Retirees
$65 - Working Professionals


William C. JenkinsFeatured Honoree William C. Jenkins, PhD, MPH
For nearly four decades, Dr. William “Bill” Jenkins has devoted himself to eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities and expanding opportunities for racial/ethnic minorities to enter and succeed in careers in bio-statistics and epidemiology. Dr. Jenkins previously worked at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in Atlanta for 30 years, where he helped to end the infamous and unethical
Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and to establish initiatives to improve public health for African Americans and Native Americans. Dr. Jenkins currently works with the UNC Institute of African American Research and as co-director of the Minority Health Project.

In addition to founding the Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues (SAAPHI) in 1991, Dr. Jenkins has been instrumental in founding the Institute for African American Health; establishing Project IMHOTEP and the Public Health Sciences Institute at Morehouse College; and the Master of Public Health program at Morehouse School of Medicine, the first such program at a historically black institution.

 

For more information, contact Black Caucus of Health Workers (BCHW) President Dr. Apryl Brown at aprylrbrown@gmail.com and to learn more about the BCHW visit http://blackcaucus1968.blogspot.com/