Please join us on November 5th from 12:00-3:00 via zoom for our Fall 2021 HDRI Symposium!

This 2nd annual symposium will include keynote speaker, Dr. Natasha Williams of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and eight short presentations by Auburn faculty and students engaging in research relevant to social inequality or health disparities.

 

A draft agenda for the event is availabile below

 

Auburn University Health Disparities Research Initiative – Virtual Symposium

November 5, 2021 from 12:00-3:00pm

 

Presentations (Part 1)

12:00-12:40

 

Thomas Fuller-Rowell, Associate Professor, College of Human Sciences

Welcome

Cory Cobb, Assistant Professor, College of Human Sciences

Parent immigration stress among Latino families in an emerging immigrant context

Guy Mount, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts

Racial Capitalism and the Neoliberailzation of the COVID Discourse 

Tal Peretz, Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts

Men, Masculinities, and Gender-Based Violence: The Broadening Scope of Recent Research

Brian Gillis, Graduate Student, College of Human Sciences

Bioregulatory and Behavioral Protective Factors for Sexual-Minority and Gender-Diverse Youth

 

Questions and Discussion

12:40-12:55

 

Presentations (Part 2)

1:00-1:35

 

Robert Arnold, Professor & Director of AU Spectra, School of Pharmacy

Multi-omic approach to identify mRNA & microRNA signatures to address health disparity in aggressive lethal prostate cancers

Soolim Jeong, Graduate Student, School of Kinesiology

Racial differences in night-to-day blood pressure and blood pressure dipping in healthy young adults

Priyadarshini Patel, Graduate Student, College of Human Sciences

Epigenetic changes in obesity-related genes amongst races in children

Olivia Nichols, Graduate Student, College of Human Sciences

Contextualizing the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and racial health disparities

 

Questions and Discussion

1:35-1:50

 

Keynote Presentation

2:00-2:40

 

Natasha Williams

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

NYU School of Medicine

Title TBD

 

Keynote Speaker Bio

Dr. Williams is a behavioral research scientist and an assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine. Trained in public health, health education, and health disparities research, Dr. Williams’s research primarily focuses on increasing awareness about the importance of sleep health among minority patients diagnosed with sleep disorders and physical and mental comorbidity, increasing access to treatment for minority populations diagnosed with sleep disorders, and investigating the determinants of sleep disturbance among minority populations. Currently, she is the principal investigator of a study that is exploring the barriers and facilitators of adherence to treatment among African American and white patients duly diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia.

Dr. Williams has worked at many academic institutions including the City University of New York, Columbia University, and Temple University. She has been interviewed for Sleep Magazine Review, the Journal for Sleep Specialist. Her research has appeared in over 50 scientific journals and conference proceedings including SLEEP, Sleep Health, Sleep Medicine, and Clinical Sleep Medicine. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed work, she has been invited to guest lecture at Yale University, Howard University, the University of North Texas, and others, to discuss her work on sleep health among minority populations. She is a native of Brooklyn, and lives in Teaneck, New Jersey with her family.

 

Questions and Discussion

2:40-2:55pm

Closing Comments

2:55-3:00pm