CUNY Colloquium on Urban Health  Hunter College - Brookdale Campus
425 East 25th Street  The Rotunda
 Thursday, March 30





8:45-9:00 Welcome

Frances Horowitz, President, CUNY Graduate Center
Steven Zoloth, Associate Provost, Public Health, Hunter College

9:00-11:00 Urban Inequalities and Health
 

  • The Economy and Urban Health

    • Harvey Brenner, M.D., Community Health and Social Medicine, City College
  • Urban Renewal and Public Health Crises

    • Mindy Fullilove, School of Public Health, Columbia University
  •  Inner City Health Crises and Their Implications for Regional and  National Health

    • Roderick Wallace, Public Interest Scientific Consulting Service, Inc., New York City
  •  Mapping the Contours of Urban Health Inequalities: The Role of GIS

    • Sara McLafferty, Geography, Hunter College
    Commentator:
    - Tracey Revenson, Ph.D., Social-Personality and Health Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
    - John Seley, Urban Studies and Environmental Psychology,
    Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center

    11:00-11:15 Break

    11:15-12:45 Integrating Clinical and Non-Clinical Perspectives to Understand Urban Health Issues
     
     

  •  Effects of Welfare Reform on the Perinatal Health of Latinos in California, New York City and Texas

    • Ted Joyce, Ph.D., Economics, Baruch College, CUNY Graduate Center, and National Bureau of Economic Research
  •  The Differential Effect of the Medicaid Eligibility Expansions for Children on Health and Health Care Utilization by Race and Ethnicity

    • Andrew Racine, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center and National Bureau of Economic Research
  •  The Latina Paradox: Differences in Birth Outcomes among US- and Foreign-born Latinas

    • Tanya Pagan Raggio, M.D., MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CUNY Medical
    School
  •  Developing a Measure of Care Coordination for People with Disabilities in Medicaid Managed Care Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr.P.H., Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College

    • Commentator: Ana Abraido-Lanza, School of Public Health, Columbia University

    12:45-2:00 Lunch - Informal Discussion of Research Collaboration and Teaching

    2:00-4:00 Urban Environments and Health
     

  •  History of Epidemic Diseases and Public Health in New York City

    • David Rosner, School of Public Health, Columbia University
  • Housing, Public Health, and Work

    • Frank Braconi, Citizens' Housing and Planning Council, New York City
  •  Uncertainties Regarding the Risk Posed by Persistent Urban Toxicants

    • Jean Grassman, Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College
    Patricia Antoniello*, Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College
    Moderator: Steve Markowitz, M.D., Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College

    4:00-5:00 Wine and Cheese

    Friday, March 31
     

    9:00-10:30 Overcoming Urban Inequalities in Health
     

  • Improving Social Conditions

    • Nicholas Freudenberg, Public Health, Hunter College
  •  Childhood Lead Poisoning in New York City: Policy Options for the Next Decade

    • Susan Klitzman, Public Health, Hunter College
  •  The Implications of Changing Federal Welfare Policy for the Health of Women and Children

    • Wendy Chavkin, School of Public Health, Columbia University
  •  Estimating Burden of Disease for Monitoring and Resource Allocation Efforts: Variation by Measurement and SES

    • Martha Gold, Community Health and Social Medicine, City College
    Moderator: Gerald Oppenheimer, Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College

    10:30-10:45 Break

    10:45-12:15 Urban Environments and Child Development
     

  •  The Environment of Poverty: Multiple Stressors and Socioemotional Health

    • Gary Evans, Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University
  •  Consequences of Exposure to Community Violence for Urban Children

    • Margaret Rosario, Social and Health Psychology, City College
  •  Stress and Parenting Among Families in Public Housing

    • Susan Saegert, Center for Human Environments, CUNY Graduate School
  •  Public Policy Impacts on Children's Health

    • Alice Sardell,
    Moderator:

    12:15-1:15 Lunch

    1:15-2:45 Interventions in Urban Health Problems
     

  •  The Race Divide in Cancer Outcomes: Can Psychosocial Interventions Make a Difference?

    • Stephen Lepore, PhD, Social and Health Psychology, Brooklyn College
  •  Place-Based Strategies for Improving the Health and Well Being of the Inner City Elderly: Case Study of Linkage House

    • Judith L. Howe, Henry L. Schwartz Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai Medical Center
  •  Individual, Organizational, and Societal Challenges for Health Interventions: Case Study of the Gay Men's Health Crisis Center (GMHC)

    • Suzanne Oullette, Social and Health Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
  •  Charitable Food Programs: Help or Hindrance?

    • Jan Poppendieck, Director for Family Policy and Professor of Sociology, Hunter College
    Moderator: Gary Winkel, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center

    2:45-3:00 Break

    3:00-4:30 Programs in Urban Health at CUNY

  •  Hunter College Program in Public Health
  •  Hunter School of Nursing
  •  Health Psychology at the undergraduate and doctoral level
  •  Community Health and Social Medicine, City College
  •  The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
  •  Health and Nutritional Sciences Brooklyn College
  •  Health Education, Borough of Manhattan Community College

    • Comments by Louise Mirrer, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, CUNY
    Thoughts on the CUNY Urban Health Agenda  * Not confirmed
     

    For more information, please contact Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH
    Professor and Director, Program in Urban Public Health
    Hunter College School of Health Sciences City University of New York
    425 East 25th Street, New York, New York 10010
    Telephone 212-481-4363      212-481-5260 FAX