Agenda
African American Researchers and Scholars Workgroup
Presents
Marginalized African American Males
Mini Medical School
Morehouse School of Medicine
(Diversity-promoting Institutions Drug Abuse Research Program (DIDARP);
Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center (SATTC);
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA);
National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH);
and Community Voices, co-sponsors)
July 20, 2009
NCPC Building – Auditorium
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Registration
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM Opening Remarks
Ronald L. Braithwaite, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Family Medicine and Psychiatry
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Institutional Remarks
Sandra Harris-Hooker, Ph.D.
Vice President and Associate Dean for Sponsored Research Administration
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved
Henrie M. Treadwell, Ph.D.
Professor, Community Health and Preventative Medicine
Director, Community Voices and Men's Health Initiatives
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Remarks
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Lula A. Beatty, Ph.D.
Director, Special Populations Office
National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH, Bethesda, MD
Remarks
Office of Minority Health
Rochelle Rollins, PhD, MPH
Director, Division of Policy and Data
Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
8:50 AM – 9:00 AM Moderator: Daniel Sarpong, Ph.D.
Jackson State University and Chair
African American Researchers and Scholars Workgroup (AARSWG), NIDA Sponsored, Jackson, MS
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM “Overview of Drug Abuse in African American Males”
Carl L. Hart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Associate Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), Department of Psychiatry
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM AM BREAK
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM Impact of MSM on African American Males
Kathleen McDavid Harrison, PhD, MPH, FACE
Associate Director for Health Disparities
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Town Hall meeting – Q & A
Lawrence S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH, FASAM, Facilitator
Executive Senior Vice President,
Addiction Research & Treatment Corporation
Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health
Weill Medical College, Cornell University, Brooklyn, NY
11:45 AM– 1:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM The Impact of Slavery on the Mental Health Status of African American Males
Na’im Akbar, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Na’im Akbar Consultants, Tallahassee, FL
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM Effective Community Based Intervention for Marginalized Males
Treating Substance Abusing Offenders in Community-based Programs: Lessons Learned in Washington, DC
Calvin C. Johnson, Ph.D.
Director of the Office of Research and Evaluation at the Court Services
Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA), Washington, DC
The Psychology and Sociology of Criminality
Brother Ellsworth Johnson-Bey
Founder & CEO, Fraternal Order of X-Offenders, Baltimore, MD
Futures up in Smoke: How the War on Weed Impacts Young Black Men
Deborah Small, JD
Executive Director
Break the Chains, New York, NY
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM PM BREAK
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Town Hall Meeting – Q & A
Tony L. Strickland, MS, PhD, Facilitator
Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Sports Concussion Institute, Los Angeles, CA
4:30 PM Closing Remarks
Daniel Sarpong, Ph.D.
Director of Jackson Heart Study Coordinating Center
Jackson State University; Chair AARSWG, Jackson, MS