Deans Robert S. Gold, School of Public Health and Edward Montgomery, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences cordially invite you to a lecture:

Translating Evidenced-Based Research into Community-Based Prevention: The Healthy Black Family Project

Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Minority Health

Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health and Social Justice

Graduate School of Public Health

University of Pittsburgh

According to Healthy People 2010, the nation's guide to better health, significant improvement in quality of life can be achieved with a focus on health promotion and disease prevention. The Healthy Black Family Project is working to promote these concepts. HBFP is an innovative, community based health promotion and disease prevention intervention designed to reduce and prevent diabetes and hypertension in Pittsburgh's African American community through physical activity, nutrition education, smoking cessation, stress management, and self management of chronic disease. More than 6,000 African Americans have enrolled in the program.

Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication: Lessons from the Past, Challenges Ahead

Sandra Crouse Quinn, Ph.D.

Associate Dean

Student Affairs and Education

Graduate School of Public Health

University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Quinn integrates research, teaching, and public health practice. Her research interests include community engagement, particularly with the African American community; public health history; and health and risk communication, particularly with regard to bioterrorism and other forms of terrorist activity. She has a longtime interest in the impact of the Tuskegee syphilis study on African American participation in research. Dr. Quinn is the co-principal investigator on the Research Center of Excellence in Minority Health Disparities, a five-year, $4.8 million grant to the Center for Minority Health from the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, in the National Institutes of Health. In 2006, she completed a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study risk communication between postal workers and public health professionals during the anthrax attack in 2001.