Plenary Sessions

December 17, 2012
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
OPENING CEREMONY

Presiding
Prerna Mona Khanna, MD
Medical Contributor, Fox News Chicago

Presentation of Colors: Armed Forces Color Guards
National Anthem: Ms. Etienne Lashley

Welcome Remarks
John Ruffin, PhD
Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Opening Remarks
Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Special Message
Kathleen Sebelius (via video)
Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Summit Dedication
Louis Sullivan, MD
Former HHS Secretary
President Emeritus Morehouse School of Medicine

Mary Woolley
President and CEO Research!America

Portrait Unveiling: Honoring Former Congressman Louis Stokes

John Ruffin, PhD
Director, NIMHD

The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr.
Pastor Emeritus
Olivet Institutional Baptist Church
Cleveland, OH

Audrey Manley, MD
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health
Former U.S. Surgeon General

Donna Christensen, MD
Delegate, U.S. Virgin Islands
Chair, Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust

Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
Director, NIH

9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Keynote: Social Determinants of Global Population Health and Health Disparities
David Satcher, MD, PhD
16th U.S. Surgeon General
Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute

09:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
BREAK

10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Plenary I: International Viewpoints on Building a Healthier Global Society

Panelists
Louis Sullivan, MD
President Emeritus Morehouse School of Medicine,
Former HHS Secretary

Lia Maria dos Santos
Technical Consultant, National Policy of Health Integration
Brazilian Ministry of Health

Herman Jacobs
Counselor, Socio-Economics and Development
Embassy of South Africa

Sofia Leticia Morales Garza
Senior Advisor Millennium Development Goals
PAHO

Moderator
David R. Williams, PhD
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman
Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Plenary II: Social Determinants of Health: Global Perspectives

Panelists
Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health , UCSF

Gerry Gallagher
Acting Director General, Social Determinants and Science Integration
Public Health Agency of Canada

C. James Hospedales, M.D., MPH
Director, Non-Communicable Diseases Unit
Pan American Health Organization

Moderator
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
The George Washington University

12:30 p.m. – 01:30 p.m.
LUNCH
Poster Session I

December 18, 2012
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Presiding
Prerna Mona Khanna, MD

Welcome
Howard Koh, MD, MPH
Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services

Plenary Session III: Implementing the National Prevention Strategy: Federal Action to Eliminate Health Disparities

Opening Remarks
Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA
U.S. Surgeon General

Jeff Levi, PhD
Executive Director, Trust for America’s Health

Panelists
B. Suzi Ruhl, J.D., M.P.H.
Senior Attorney Advisor Office of Environmental Justice, EPA

David Michaels, PhD
Assistant Secretary of Labor, OSHA

Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Robert Jesse, MD, PhD
Deputy Under Secretary for Health
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Moderator
Mayra Alvarez, MPH
Director of Public Health Policy, Office of Health Reform, HHS

12:00 p.m. – 01:00 p.m.
LUNCH
Poster Session II

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Keynote: Using Reimbursements to Reduce Health Disparities

Gail Wilensky, PhD
Economist and Senior Fellow, Project HOPE

02:00 p.m. – 02:15 p.m.
BREAK

2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Plenary IV: Working Together to Implement the National Prevention Strategy: Cross-Sector Partnerships

Panelists
Carlessia Hussein
Deputy Director, Minority Health and Health Disparities
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

David Fukuzawa
Program Director for Health, Kresge Foundation

Audrietta Izlar
Benefits Manager for Health Improvement Initiatives, Verizon Communications

Vivek Murthy
President, Doctors for America

Moderator
Jeff Levi, PhD
Executive Director, Trust for America’s Health

03:30 p.m. – 03:45 p.m.
BREAK

3:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Town Hall: HAVE YOUR SAY: What Is It That We Are Not Doing, That We Should Be Doing To Build A Healthier Global Society?

Panelists
Louis Sullivan, MD
Former HHS Secretary; President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine

David R. Williams, PhD
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman
Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Jeffrey Henderson, MD
President and CEO, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health

Kira Fortune, PhD
Advisor, Determinants of Health
PAHO

Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH
Assistant Professor
Departments of Population Health and Medicine, New York University

Moderator
Prerna Mona Khanna,MD
Medical Contributor, Fox News Chicago

December 19, 2012
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
Plenary V: The Intersection of Science and Policy in Eliminating Health Disparities

Elijah E. Cummings
U.S. Representative, Maryland (D-MD 7th District)

Donna Christensen, MD
Delegate, U.S. Virgin Islands

Oxiris Barbot, MD
Commissioner of Health, Baltimore City

Moderator
Kwesi Mfume
Former Maryland Congressman
Former President/CEO National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
CLOSING CEREMONY
John Ruffin, PhD
Director, NIMHD

Concurrent Sessions (A,B,C,D)
Concurrent Sessions E/G
Workshops