ICHAD 2012 Conference News
ICHAD 2012 DeclarationClick here to view the draft.
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United Nations Calls for Remembrance of Transatlantic Slave TradeAccording to the United Nations, it will not be enough to simply remember slavery. We will also need to learn from it. ICHAD 2012 supports the UN call to learn from the past, which is the guiding premise of the conference theme: "The Great Scattering: Solving the Puzzle of Slavery, Race, and Contemporary Health in the African Diaspora."
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ICHAD 2012 Announces Speaker Line-up!ICHAD 2012 will feature more than 30 presenters from a dozen professions and academic disciplines focusing on 14 countries, including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Peru, and the United States. First row left to right 1. The Honorable Donna Christensen, United States House of Representatives, Virgin Islands Delegate Second row left to right 5. Josephine Etowa, University of Ottawa
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ICHAD 2012 Launches 90-Day CountdownLaunching the On the Road to Baltimore Campaign, conference organizers have released the ICHAD 2012 promo kit and widened the conference door by lowering registration fees.
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Racial Divide in Health Persists Across Western HemisphereFrom Canada to Argentina the pattern is striking: In Colombia, black babies are twice as likely to die before their birthday compared to the general population. In one U.S. neighborhood in North Memphis, the city where Martin Luther King died, the infant mortality rate among women of African descent is higher than that of much poorer populations, including Nicaragua, El Salvador and Vietnam. More...
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Hopkins Mobilizes Global Network to Close the Racial Gap in HealthThey speak many languages and come from all walks of life – researchers, activists, policy experts, artists, students and more. They have one aim: to close the racial divide in health across the Western Hemisphere. More...
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