Please join us on November 5th from 12:00-3:00pm CST 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.
- To register for the event, click here (pre-registration is required for all attendees and presenters).
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 CST
(pre-registration is required to attend this Zoom event)
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
Olivia Nichols, Graduate Student, College of Human Sciences
Contextualizing the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and racial health disparities
Tal Peretz, Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, & Chris Vidmar, Graduate Student, Georgia State University
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
Guy Mount, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts
Racial capitalism and the neoliberailzation of the COVID discourse
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
Social determinants of sleep and sleep disorders among vulnerable populations
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
