Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week
Recordings are now available for some presentations and panels.
The Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week (HERW) brings faculty, staff, students and community members together to highlight and encourage health equity research, promote collaboration and networking, and encourage strategic planning and partnerships in the UNC School of Medicine, across UNC’s campus and beyond.
In 2020, the UNC School of Medicine, in collaboration with UNC CHER, held the first Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium. In 2023, the symposium is shifting to a research week with expanded opportunities to highlight health equity research from faculty, staff, students. community members and other partners. HERW will include research presentations, panel discussions and a keynote presentation.
Program
Keynote Panel: Conducting Health Equity Research in the Current Social and Political Environment
June 7 from 11:00 a.m. – noon Eastern.
Recently the topics of diversity, equity, gender and theory have been brought into the sociopolitical sphere. In this panel, UNC leaders will discuss considerations in advancing health equity research in this environment, why this work matters, and the pathways forward.
Giselle Corbie, M.D., M.Sc., will moderate this panel.
This panel was not recorded.
Project GRACE: Community-academic partnership for health equity
June 6 from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Eastern.
This panel features members from the Project GRACE community-academic partnership. Panelists will discuss the history of Project GRACE, how they’ve sustained a long-term partnership and the impact this partnership has had on their community.
Special Session: Southeastern American Indian Cancer Health Equity Partnership (SAICEP)
June 7 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Eastern.
This special session will spotlight the Southeastern American Indian Cancer Health Equity Partnership (SAICEP), a recent collaborative formed through the Community Outreach and Engagement teams at the NCI Comprehensive Cancer Centers at Duke, UNC Lineberger and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.
Role reflections: Hearing from health equity research staff
June 8 from 11:00 a.m. – noon Eastern.
This panel will bring together staff from across UNC to discuss their perspectives on health equity and community-engaged research given their specific role in it. Panelists will reflect on what challenges and sustains them in this work, as well as the future of health equity as a field.
WATCH THE ROLE REFLECTIONS PANEL
Full 2023 HERW Schedule of Events
The full schedule of events for the 2023 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week is below. Details, including registration links, will be added as they are finalized.
| Date & Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Event type |
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| Monday June 5 11:00 a.m. Eastern | Networking for HERW This session was not recorded. | Networking | |
| Monday June 5 1:00 p.m. Eastern | Recruiting Young Latino Sexual Minority Men in North Carolina for an HIV Prevention and Stigma Reduction Study: Strategies and Challenges WATCH RECRUITING | Dicky Baruah (she/they) (School of Social Work) | Presentation |
| Tuesday June 6 10:00 a.m. Eastern | Project GRACE: Community-academic partnership for health equity WATCH PROJECT GRACE | Shirley McFarlin (James McFarlin Community Development), Mysha Wynn (Project Momentum, Inc.), Don Cavellini (Freedom Hill Community Health Center in Princeville, retired) | Panel |
| Tuesday June 6 11:00 a.m. Eastern | Social Workers' Impact on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice WATCH JUVENILE JUSTICE | Jenny Afkinich (School of Social Work) | Presentation |
| Tuesday June 6 1:00 p.m. Eastern | Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity (ACCURE): A Community-Academic Partnership Leading to Treatment Equity and Improved Care for All WATCH ACCURE | Sam Cykert (UNC School of Medicine), Christina Yongue (UNC Greensboro) | Presentation |
| Wednesday June 7 11:00 a.m. Eastern | Conducting Health Equity Research in the Current Social and Political Environment This session was not recorded. | Giselle Corbie (SOM/CHER/Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs) (moderator), Nate Thomas (SOM/Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), Audrea Caesar (UNC Health), Penny Gordon-Larsen (Interim Vice Chancellor for Research), Leah Cox (Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion/Chief Diversity Officer) | Panel 321 MacNider & Zoom |
| Wednesday June 7 1:00 p.m. Eastern | Addressing Unmet Social Needs in Rural Eastern North Carolina Through Implementing a Digital Community Resource Referral System This session was not recorded. | Christina Carilli (School of Medicine) | Presentation |
| Wednesday June 7 4:00 p.m. Eastern | Southeastern American Indian Cancer Health Equity Partnership (SAICEP) WATCH SAICEP | Ronny A. Bell (Professor and Chair, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy), Stephanie B. Wheeler (Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center), Tomi Akinyemiju (Associate Professor of Population Health and Global Health, Vice-Chair, Diversity and Inclusion, Duke University Department of Population Health Sciences, Associate Director, Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity, Duke Cancer Institute), Charlene Hunt (Project Manager, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist) | Special session |
| Thursday June 8 11:00 a.m. Eastern | Role reflections: Hearing from health equity research staff WATCH ROLE REFLECTIONS | Lauren Matthews (Lineberger), J. Tommy White (TraCS), Shikira Flounory (CHER), Maura Drewry (CHER), Breanna Williams (CHER) | Panel |
| Thursday June 8 1:00 p.m. Eastern | Food Insecurity and Hypertension: Lesson Learned from Recruitment and Enrollment in the Healthy Food First Study WATCH FOOD INSECURITY | Robert E. Anderson, III (Gillings) | Presentation |
About Dr. Paul A. Godley
HERW is named in honor of the late Dr. Paul A. Godley, Rush S. Dickson Professor of Hematology/Oncology in the UNC Department of Medicine and Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the UNC School of Medicine.
Dr. Godley directed the program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO) from its inception in 2001. His research and leadership sought to identify, understand and eliminate racial health disparities.
We are proud to honor his legacy through HERW to inspire impactful research on the elimination of health inequities.
Learn more about Dr. Godley at this page maintained by Victor J. Schoenbach, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Thank you
Thank you to the 2023 Paul A. Godley Steering Committee:
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Stephanie Brown, Ph.D.
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Audrea Caesar, Ph.D.
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Giselle Corbie, M.D., M.Sc.
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Michelle Floris-Moore, M.D., M.S.
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Benny Joyner Jr., M.D., MPH
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Raúl Necochea, Ph.D., M.Sc.
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E. Nate Thomas III, Ph.D.
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Becky White, M.D., MPH
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Sharon Williams, Ph.D.
Thank you to the 2023 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week co-sponsor:
- UNC School of Medicine Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion