CARE: COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH
& ENGAGEMENT is pleased to welcome
Dr. Eric Whitaker, University of Chicago
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30th, 7:00-8:30pm
Community Forum on Health Equity
Featuring the world premiere of “3,000 Miles,” a short
documentary by Magalis Martinez and youth at The Color
of Words about creating a healthy New Haven through
the eyes of our youth.
A facilitated discussion on community health and health equity will follow the film premiere.
Cooperative Arts High School, 177 College Street, New Haven
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 10:00am-12:00pm
Dean’s Lecture & Panel Discussion
Community-University Partnerships to Improve Health: The Urban Health Initiative
Panel Respondents
Dr. Chisara Asomugha, Community Services Administrator, City of New Haven
Dr. Charles Lockwood, Chair, Board of Governors, Yale Medical Group, Anita O’Keefe Young Professor of
Women’s Health and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale
University School of Medicine
Dr. Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Professor and Director, Office of Community Health, Yale School of Public Health
Yale School of Public Health, Winslow Auditorium, , 60 College Street, New Haven
Please RSVP for both events: care@yale.edu or 203-785-7651
Sponsored by the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
Brief Biographical Sketch
Eric E. Whitaker, MD, MPH, is Executive Vice President for Strategic Affiliations and Associate Dean for Community-Based Research, at the University
of Chicago Medical Center. He is a nationally recognized public health authority, expert on minority health issues and, in his own words, “country doc”
for some of the city’s poorest communities. Prior to joining University of Chicago, Dr. Whitaker served as Director of the Illinois Department of Public
Health. Prior to that, Whitaker was a senior attending physician at Cook County Hospital and founder and director of Project Brotherhood, an innovative,
award-winning barbershop-based program designed to improve the often-neglected health of African-American men.
CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement
The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation is funded by the by the Clinical and Translational Science Award Grant #UL RR024139 from the National Center of
Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health. CARE receives additional funding from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical
Research Foundation and the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center.