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APRIL IS NATIONAL MINORITY HEALTH MONTH The goals of the National Minority Health Month Group are to build public/private partnerships, foster cultural competency among health care providers, encourage health education and training, and expand the use of state-of-the-art technology, and to provide leadership in the consistent, comparable, and predictable monitoring and reporting of the health status of all vulnerable populations, including but not limited to Blacks and African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Highlights/2004/HApr04.htm

 

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Community Luncheon at the Brooklyn Borough President Office
May 5th, 2008

 

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Brooklyn Health Disparities Symposium at SUNY Downstate Medical Center
June 12, 2008

 

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Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health Sports Ball: Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers, NYC
April 4, 2008

 

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BHDC’s Researchers Link Eye Disease to Sleep Disorders
Girardin Jean-Louis, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and ophthalmology, is lead author of a paper published in Journal of Circadian Rhythms on the associations between ocular diseases and circadian-rhythm disorders. Douglas Lazzaro, MD, chair of ophthalmology, Arthur Wolintz, distinguished teaching professor of ophthalmology, and Ferdinand Zizi, MBA, co-authored the study.

Journal of Circadian Rhythms 2008, 6:1doi:10.1186/1740-3391-6-1
The electronic version of this article can be found online at: http://www.jcircadianrhythms.com/content/6/1/1

BHDC investigators Reported on Insomnia Symptoms among Women from Multiethnic Groups
A study on "Insomnia Symptoms in a Multiethnic Sample of American Women," by Girardin Jean-Louis, Ph.D. et al. appears in the January 2008 issue of Journal of Women's Health. Georges Casimir, MD, and Ferdinand Zizi, MBA, also collaborated on the article.
The electronic version of this article can be found online at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18240978?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Summer Institute on Cardiovascular Health Disparities Research
The Brooklyn Center for Health Disparities is offering a Summer Institute Program to Increase Diversity (SIPID) in Cardiovascular Health Disparities Research, from July 13-26. SIPID is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and SUNY Downstate. Applications are due May 1.

Study Suggests Ethnicity May Affect Sleep
Patterns in Women
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