NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOETHICS IN RESEARCH AND HEALTH CARE

Public Health Ethics Intensive Course

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April 24-26, 2012Tuskegee University

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Centerat Tuskegee University

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CourSe DeSCription

The purpose of the Public Health Ethics Intensive Course is to provide a rigorous course for graduate students, faculty, and practitioners that builds capacity and com-petency in public health ethics, bioethics and research ethics, focused specially on the influence of race/ethnicity, gender/sex and class on the spheres of ethics. The pre-sentations, intellectual conversations, and small group discussions will center around salient issues regarding the synergies between bioethics, which includes health care ethics and biomedical research ethics and public health ethics, that focuses on popu-lation health. The unavoidable tension between these spheres of ethics will be the topic of much of the discussions.

CourSe objeCtiveSAt the end of the course the participants will be able to:

1) Discuss the ethical challenges and opportunities that influence human subject research, health care delivery, and public health policy and practice;

2) Build on the theoretical foundations and principles of public health ethics by critically engaging practical decision making related to human subject research, health care delivery and public health practice;

3) Articulate how determinative factors such as race/ethnicity, gender/sex, and class play a role in public health ethics by honing skill sets of ethical reasoning.

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CourSe SCheDuletuesday, april 24, 2012

8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Auditorium Foyer

9:15 a.m. - 9:25 a.m. Welcome: President Gilbert Rochon, Ph.D., M.P.H. Auditorium

9:25 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. Mayor Omar Neal Auditorium

9:35 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Chairman Louis Maxwell Auditorium

9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Overview: Rueben C. Warren, D.D.S., Dr. P.H., M.P.H., M.Div. Auditorium

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. opening plenary: bioethics and public health ethics Auditorium

Keynote presenter: leonard harris, ph.D.

responders: leonard ortmann, ph.D.

lucius t. outlaw, ph.D.

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Small Group Session Auditorium and Meeting Room D

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Ballroom A and B

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. the legacy of the uSphS Syphilis Study plenary Auditorium

Keynote presenter: peter j. paris, ph.D., M.a.

responders: ralph v. Katz, D.M.D., M.p.h., ph.D.

riggins r. earl, jr., ph.D.

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Small Group Session Auditorium and Meeting Room D

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Tour Meet in Hotel Lobby

Wednesday, april 25, 2012

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Auditorium Foyer

8:00a.m. – 9:00 a.m. ethics and health Disparities plenary Ballroom

Keynote presenter: bailus Walker, ph.D., M.p.h.

responders: David a. anderson, D.D.S., M.D.S.

Moon S. Chen, jr., ph.D., M.p.h.

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Small Group Session Ballroom and Meeting Room D

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ethics and health Care plenary Ballroom

Keynote presenter: Cedric bright, M.D., FaCp

responders: edward Gabriele, ph.D.

David r. baines, M.D.

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Small Group Session Ballroom and Meeting Room D

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Ballroom

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2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ethics and environmental justice plenary Ballroom

Keynote presenter: beverly Wright, ph.D.

responders: Carlton M. Waterhouse, j.D., M.t.S., ph.D.

Stephanie Miles-richardson, D.v.M., ph.D.

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Small Group Session Ballroom and Meeting Room D

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Tour Meet in Hotel Lobby

thursday, april 26, 2012

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. ethics and research plenary Ballroom

Keynote presenter: luther Williams, ph.D.

responders: vivian pinn, M.D.

Deleso alford, j.D., ll.M.

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Small Group Session Ballroom and Meeting Room D

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Closing plenary: lessons learned Ballroom

rueben C. Warren, D.D.S., Dr. p.h., M.p.h., M.Div.

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Ballroom

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SeleCteD CourSe reaDinGSBayer, Ronald, Lawrence O. Gostin, Bruce Jennings and Bonnie Steinbock, eds., Public Health Ethics: Theory,Policy and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Gabriele, Edward F. “Ethics Leadership in Research, Healthcare, and Organizational Systems: Commentary and Critical Reflection.” Journal of Research Administration. 42(1): 88-102 (2011).

Katz, Ralph, et. al. “The Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Assessing Its Impact on Willingness to Participate in Biomedical Studies.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 19 (2008): 1168-1180.

Katz, Ralph V. and Rueben C. Warren, eds. The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study. Lanham,Maryland: Lexington Books, 2011.

Pastor, Manuel, Robert D. Bullard, Beverly Wright, et al. In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race after Katrina. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.

Walker, Bailus, Jr., and Rueben Warren. “Convergence of Disciplines: An Approach to Health Disparities Research”, To Be Published.

Washington, Deleso Alford. “Examining the ‘Stick’ of Accreditation for Medical Schools Through ReproductiveJustice Lens: A Transformative Remedy for Teaching the Tuskegee Syphilis Study”. Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. 26(1): 153-195 (2012).

Washington, Deleso Alford. “Critical Race Feminist Bioethics: Telling Stories in Law School and Medical School in Pursuit of ‘Cultural Competency’”. Albany Law Review. Vol. 72 (2009).

Waterhouse, Carlton. “Abandon All Hope Ye That Enter? Equal Protection, Title VI and the Divine Comedy of Environmental Justice.” Fordham Environmental Law Review. (Spring 2009).

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leonard harris, ph.D., M.a.Leonard Harris is a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. He is director of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Summer Institute, Critical Pragmatism and Harris’s Insurrectionist Ethics; and Indian Council of Philosophical Research, visiting scholar. He is former director of the Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. Program, and former director of African -American Studies at Purdue University. He has served as non-resident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, 2001-2002; and Fulbright Scholar, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1998-1999. Harris is former visiting scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, U.K. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, his M.A. in philosophy at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and a B.A. in English and philosophy at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio. His scholarship includes: co-author of “Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond,” 2010; “Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher;” editor of “Racism,” 1999; “The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke,” 1999; “Children in Chaos: A Philosophy for Children Experience,”1991; and “Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917.”

peter j. paris, ph.D., M.a., M.Div.Peter J. Paris is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor Emeritus of Christian Social Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has authored or edited eight books Including “The Spirituality of African Peoples and Religion and Poverty: Pan-African Perspectives”. He has been elected president of four national academic associations in the United States; holds B.A. and M.Div. degrees from Acadia University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Chicago. He has also taught at Howard, Vanderbilt, and Harvard Universities, Union Theological Seminary in New York, and Trinity Theological Seminary in Ghana. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, he holds dual citizenship in Canada and United States. He has lectured widely in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, Brazil, India, Canada and the United States. Paris has received four honorary doctoral degrees and is editor of the series, “Religion, Race and Ethnicity” at New York University Press.

bailus Walker, jr., ph.D., M.p.h.Bailus Walker, Jr. is professor of environmental and occupational medicine and toxicology at Howard University College of Medicine. He is former professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, State University of New York in Albany. He has served as dean of the public health faculty at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; and former commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and chairman of the Massachusetts Public Health Council. He has also served as state director of public health for Michigan. Walker is a past president for the American Public Health Association, and a distinguished fellow of the Royal Society of Health (London, England). He is also a distinguished fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. Walker has published over 100 articles in peer- reviewed journals on environmental and occupational risk factors of disease and disability. He is an NIH adviser on environmental and community health aspects of biodefense research and senior science adviser (environmental health) to the National Library of Medicine. He was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, (IOM)

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National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Walker has received numerous awards and honors including the Gaylord W. Anderson Distinguished Public Health Leadership Award, the University of Minnesota’s highest honor.

Cedric M. bright, M.D., FaCpDr. Cedric M. Bright was installed as the 112th president of the National MedicalAssociation (NMA) in July 2011. Throughout his career, Bright has championed the elimination of health care disparities. He has been involved in health disparities research and has presented papers and abstracts at multiple national and localvenues. Bright was an invited participant at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual summits where he has spoken on health disparities in theVeterans Administration medical system. Bright has been interviewed in variousmedia outlets with a focus on health disparities and health equity. Given the focus of the nation on health care reform and on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, over the last year he has focused his efforts on access, reform and has participated in numerous advocacy efforts. Bright plans to continue his focus on ensuring that all Americans have access to basic health care. He is the recipient of numerous citations and awards for his professional and community service.

beverly Wright, ph.D.Beverly Wright, environmental justice scholar and advocate, is the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice currently at Dillard University in New Orleans. The center addresses environmental and health inequities along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor and is a community/university partnership providing education, training, and job placement. Since Hurricane Katrina, the center has focused largely on research, policy, community outreach, assistance, and the education of displaced African-American residents of New Orleans. Most recently, her focus has been on the education, training and public policy needs of those communities affected by the BP oil spill disaster.

rueben C. Warren, D.D.S., Dr. p.h., M.p.h., M.Div. Rueben C. Warren is currently the director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care and professor of Bioethics at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala. He also serves as director of the Institute for Faith-Health Leadership and adjunct professor of Public Health, Medicine and Ethics at theInterdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta. From 1988 to 1997, Warren served as associate director for Minority Health at the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention (CDC). From 1997 to 2004, he was associate director forUrban Affairs at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). From 2005 to 2007, Warren served part-time as the director of infrastructure development for the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. From 2004 to 2009, he was on leave from the National Center for Environmental Health-CDC/ (ATSDR) in Atlanta, where he served as associate director for Environmental Justice. As associate director at CDC/ATSDR, Warren had lead agency responsibility for environmental justice and minority health.

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luther Williams, ph.D.At Tuskegee University, Luther S. Williams serves as Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean, graduate studies and research and distinguished professor of biology; he is the PI of a NIMHD - funded Bioethics Infrastructure Initiative Grant focused on the design and provision of bioethics training and the undergirding research based on minority participation in biomedical research studies. He served as a member of the NIH National Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH) Advisory Councils, and the HHS/NIH Biotechnology Policy Board; at present, he is member of the NIH Directors’ Council of Councils.

leonard W. ortmann, ph.D.Dr. Leonard Ortmann is a public health ethicist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Ortmann provides training, input, and consultation to CDC staff on ethical issues and develops tools and training materials to support local and state public health practitioners. Ortmann came to CDC in October 2008 as a CDC-Tuskegee Public Health Ethics Fellow. Prior to coming to CDC, Ortmann was senior associate for programs at the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics. Ortmann holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and Pennsylvania State University, respectively.

lucius t. outlaw, ph.D.Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., is professor of philosophy and of africana and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Prior to joining the Vanderbilt faculty, Outlaw was the T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College where he had been a member of the faculty since 1980. Prior to joining the faculty at Haverford, Outlaw was a member of the faculties of Fisk University (1970-1976) and Morgan State University (1977-1980). During the 1997-98 academic year he was in residence in the philosophy department of Boston College as the Honorable David S. Nelson Professor, a visiting university professorship to which he was appointed in 1996. Other visiting appointments have included Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor at Spelman College (1986-87); Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Howard University (1992-93); and R. Hawley Truax Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Hamilton College (fall semester, 1994).

ralph v. Katz, D.M.D., M.p.h., ph.D. Ralph V. Katz is professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion at New York University College of Dentistry. He is an epidemiologist who has focused on oral diseases and health disparities. He has led the Tuskegee Legacy Project research study team since 1997. Katz served as the director of two NIH-funded oral health research centers focused on health disparities and minority health between 1992 and 2009. Having served on the National Legacy Committee which initiated the formal request for a presidential apology, he was an invitee to the White House by President Clinton for the May 1997 Presidential Apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

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riggins r. earl, jr., ph.D., M.S., M.Div.Riggins Earl is a professor of ethics and theology at the Interdenominational Theological Center of the Atlanta University Center. He earned his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University, his M.Div. at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. He has done postdoctoral studies at Harvard and Boston universities, respectively. He has done research at the London Institute for African Studies. Earl formerly taught in the Religious Studies Department of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Earl’s work has earned him several national research awards such as the Lilly Professor Research Fellowship. Earl is a Visiting Senior Scholar at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. He is presently writing a book on the ethics of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and President Clinton’s apology. His significant publications include “Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs: God, Self and Community in the Slave Mind;” “Dark Salutations: Ritual, God, and Greetings in the African American Community;” and “The Jesus as Lord and Savior Problem: Blacks’ Double Consciousness Self-Worth Dilemma.” He is actively involved in building bridges of communication with African leaders of churches and universities on such troublesome issues as slavery, genocide, and AIDS. He thinks that the need for working out an ethic of communications between black leaders of Africa and America must take top priority.

David a. anderson, D.D.S., M.D.S.Anderson received his Doctor of Dental Surgery and Master of Dental Science (Prosthodontics) degrees from Howard University and University of Pittsburgh, respectively. He also received certificates for General Dental Practice and Prosthodontics Residencies from the Veterans Administration. In addition to private practice in Pittsburgh for 28 years, Anderson has held faculty appointments at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Dental Medicine and with Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in area university related hospitals. Currently, Anderson is assistant professor of prosthodontics and director of diversity and inclusion at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. Anderson has led the regional components of the American Dental Association, American College of Prosthodontists, Chi Delta Mu - an affiliate organization of the National Medical Association, and the Pennsylvania Dental Political Action Committee. Anderson’s contributions to Dental Literature include articles on political campaign finance reform, the dentist’s responsibility to the unborn by attending gestational periodontitis, organizational self assessment for diversity and inclusion, ethical considerations for nonparticipation in research requiring biological samples as well as a letter to the ADA News Editor regarding gestational eating disorders.

Moon S. Chen, jr., ph.D., M.p.h.Dr. Moon S. Chen is professor and associate director for cancer control at the University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and is fortunate to be the principal investigator of the National Cancer Institute-funded National Center for Reducing Asian American Cancer Health Disparities. As such, Chen leads a team of community leaders and researchers to focus on the unique, unusual, and unnecessary cancer burden of Asian-Americans. One of his community partners is a result of the discrimination in health care they experienced.

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edward Gabriele, ph.D.Edward Gabriele is the Navy medicine ethics and integrity executive officer. As such, he designs and directs policies and programs in health care ethics, research ethics and integrity, organizational systems ethics, and ethics education and formation. He is the executive research integrity officer for Navy medicine institutions throughout the world. For over 21 years, Gabriele has served as an international scholar in ethics as well as research administration and management for various federal agencies, state government, institutions of higher learning, nonprofit foundations, and private industry. He is professor of clinician education at Georgetown University Medical Center, and distinguished professor in the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University where he currently teaches philosophy of science. He is editor of the Journal of Research Administration for the Society of Research Administrators International; and founding editor of the Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities published by Navy Medicine in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for public service especially in education.

David r. baines, M.D.Dr. David Baines received his medical degree from the Mayo Medical School and he is board certified in family medicine. He was in private practice for 14 years on the Coeur d’ Alene Indian Reservation in northern Idaho and was clinical director of the Nez Perce Tribal Clinic in Kamiah, Idaho for one year. He worked at the Seattle Indian Health Board, an urban Indian clinic, which also was a family practice residency site, for two years and spent four years working in Dutch Harbor, Alaska at the ILIULIUK Family and Health Services. Currently, he is a faculty physician at the Alaska Family Practice Residency, which is part of the University of Washington residency network and sits on the Clinical Pastoral Education Committee which has oversight over the chaplain training programs at Providence Hospital. Baines is a member of the Tlingit and Tsimshian tribes of Alaska and frequently lectures on how he incorporates his culture and traditional beliefs into his practice of modern medicine.

Carlton M. Waterhouse, ph.D., M.t.S., j.D.Carlton M. Waterhouse is associate professor of law and dean’s fellow in the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is nationally recognized for his work on environmental justice and is known internationally for his research and writing on reparations for historic injustices and state human rights violations. His views have been published in the Wall Street Journal online and his articles have appeared in prestigious law journals including the Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, the Fordham Environmental Law Review, and the Rutgers Law Review. He attended college at the Pennsylvania State University where he studied engineering and the ethics of technology before deciding to pursue a legal education. He is a graduate of Howard University School of Law, where he was admitted as one of its distinctive Merit Fellows. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University in social ethics. He has served as chief counsel for the United States Environmental Protection Agency in several significant cases and as a national and regional expert on environmental justice, earning three of the agency’s prestigious national awards. His responsibilities at the EPA included enforcement actions under numerous environmental statutes, the development

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of regional and national policy on Environmental Justice and the application of the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the EPA permitting actions.

Stephanie Miles-richardson, D.v.M., ph.D. Stephanie Miles-Richardson is an associate professor in the department of community health and preventive medicine, and interim director, master of public health program, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). She joined the faculty at MSM after over a decade of federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Miles-Richardson earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Grambling State University, Grambling, La., a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee, Ala, and a dual Ph.D. in pathology and environmental toxicology from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. She has served as associate director for minority health and health disparities policy in the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Office of Strategy and Innovation, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She also served as minority health program manager at the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR). In this capacity, she promoted public health as a key consideration and ensured that NCEH/ATSDR addressed environmental health disparities within African-American, Asian- American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic and/or low income white populations exposed to hazardous substances. Miles-Richardson has served as an agency expert on the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals, providing technical expertise internally and represented the agency on interagency and national committees.

vivian W. pinn, M.D.Dr. Vivian W. Pinn was, until her retirement at the end of August 2011, the first full-time director of the office of research on women’s health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an appointment she held since 1991 and NIH associate director for research on women’s health since 1994. Pinn came to NIH from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., where she had been a professor and chair of the department of pathology since 1982. She has previously held appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. She has been invited to present the ORWH’s mandate, programs and initiatives to many national and international individuals and organizations with an interest in improving women’s health and the health of minorities. The ORWH was established by Congress to ensure the inclusion of women (and minorities) in clinical research funded by the NIH efforts to implement and monitor the inclusion policies. One of her more recent areas of focus was to raise the perception of the scientific community about the importance of sex differences research across the spectrum from cellular to translational research and implementation into health care. Pinn also co-chaired until her retirement, along with the director of NIH, working group on women in biomedical careers which developed and implemented programs and policies to improve the advancement of women in biomedical careers.

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Deleso a. alford j.D., ll.M. Deleso Alford earned a B.S.at Southern University, a J.D. at Southern University Law Center, and an LL.M. at Georgetown University Law Center. She is a past Fulbright Scholar- Senegal/Cote d’Ivoire. Currently, she is pursuing a Masters of Arts degree in bioethics from the Medical College of Wisconsin (fall 2012). Alford is an associate professor at Florida A&M University College of Law teaching torts, race and the law; bioethics and the law, and critical race theory. Her scholarly research focuses on the importance of building linkages between law and health professions.

Stephen olufemi Sodeke, b.a., M.t. (aSCp), M.S., ph.D., M.a. Stephen Olufemi Sodeke is a major contributor to bioethics education and training. He is lead bioethicist at the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, and professor of allied health within theCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health at Tuskegee. He works energetically to engage various communities in ethical decision-making and in responsible conduct of research. Sodeke is the current chair of the institutional review board with 17 years experience in protecting human research participants. He serves on the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human ResearchProtections (SACHRP). He is continually involved in bioethics teaching, research, and scholarship. His research interest includes community bioethics, community-based participatory research approach, health and human rights, ethical issues raised by health and health outcomes disparities, and by research with vulnerable populations in the United States and the developing world.

roberta M. troy, ph.D., M.S.Roberta M. Troy is the founding director of the Health Disparities Institute for Research and Education (HDIRE). She has previously served as interim provost at Tuskegee, director of the SACS-required Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), assistant provost for undergraduate studies, and head and associate professor of the Tuskegee University Department of Biology. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology from Tuskegee University, and the Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Florida, where she was a McKnight Pre-doctoral Fellow. Subsequently, Troy continued her training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in molecular virology. Upon completion of the postdoctoral fellowship, Troy assumed a position as associate professor of biology at Lincoln University where she provided biomedical research opportunities for many undergraduate students and biology laboratory training for middle school students in the Philadelphia area.

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Doris holeman, ph.D., M.S.Doris Holeman is associate dean and director for the School of Nursing and Allied Health, Tuskegee University. She is former interim chair of the department of nursing, professor, and coordinator of the graduate nursing program, Albany State University College of Health Professions, Albany, Ga. She currently serves on the dean’s advisory council, Tuskegee University; grant review panelist, department of health and human services; and committee on workforce diversity, Southern Region Educational Board, Council on Nursing. Holeman earned her Ph.D. in education from Georgia State University, M.S. in nursing from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and B.A. in nursing from Albany State University, Albany, Ga.

tsegaye habtemariam, D.v.M., M.p.v.M., ph.D.Tsegaye Habtemariam serves as dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health (CVMNAH), Tuskegee University. He is professor of epidemiology and biomedical informatics in the department of pathobiology. Previously, he served as director, Center for Computational Epidemiology, Bioinformatics and Risk Analysis (CCEBRA); director, biomedical information management systems (BIMS) and associate dean for research and graduate Studies. Habtemariam was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he received his B.S. in animal science from Alemaya College, HS I University, Ethiopia. He received his D.V.M. degree from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. (1970), an MPVM degree and the Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California in Davis, Calif. Habtemariam has over 300 publications and presentations in the national and international arena. He has served as a member of editorial boards of scientific journals, numerous national scientific site visit teams, chaired national scientific grant review committees (NIH, NCI, and USDA), chaired several national and international conferences and serves as reviewer on many grant proposals and scientific papers. He has served as a consultant for several national and international organizations (PAHO, WHO). Habtemariam has received numerous honors and awards including the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award and Outstanding Faculty Research Award. He has been appointed to NIH’s National Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS; and appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to be a member of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria in Foods.

Muhjah Shakir, ph.D., M.a., otr/lMuhjah Shakir is assistant professor of occupational therapy in the department of allied health science, Tuskegee University. As an activist and academic, she creatively engages the community with the aim of promoting community and academic collaboration to combat health disparities and foster healing. She is the creator of “The Impact of the Syphilis Study: Deliberative Dialogues on Lessons Learned”, these forums provide a bridge between the community and academy, held in and around Tuskegee, Ala.. She has played a leadership role in developing and initiating the Inquiry Group on Cultural Competence through the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. Shakir was a cultural diversity trainer and consultant at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital and at the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services for many years before moving to Alabama.

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Wylin Wilson, ph.D., M.Div., M.S.Wylin D. Wilson is the associate director of education and associate professor atThe National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala. She earned her Ph.D. in religious social ethics from Emory University, Atlanta, her M.Div. from the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta,, a M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and a B.S. in agricultural business from Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Fla. Her research focus is on public health ethics, health disparities and social justice and the relationship between agriculture and health.