Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week
The 2024 HERW was March 19-21.
The Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week (HERW), hosted by the Center for Health Equity Research, brings faculty, staff, students and community members together to share health equity research at UNC. HERW is an opportunity to facilitate collaboration, innovation and equity in the UNC School of Medicine, across Carolina’s communities and beyond. All sessions are open to the entire Carolina community and the general public.
In 2020, the UNC School of Medicine collaborated with CHER to host the first Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium. In 2023, the symposium expanded into a week dedicated to highlighting health equity research at Carolina. HERW 2024 will include research presentations and panel discussions.
HERW is co-sponsored by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement.
2024 HERW schedule of events
The full schedule of events for the 2024 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week is below.
Do you have any accommodation needs we should take into account when planning this program? If yes, please email us at cher@unc.ed at least three business days before the program.
| Date & Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Event type |
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| Monday March 18 11:00 a.m. Eastern | Meet the Researchers This session was not recorded. | Cristy Page, Executive Dean, UNC School of Medicine, and Chief Academic Officer, UNC Health | Kickoff session with welcome remarks from Cristy Page |
| Monday March 18 1:00 p.m. Eastern | Amplifying community voices through research: A community-based approach to survey recruitment and retention WATCH AMPLIFYING COMMUNITY VOICES | Shaunette Howard, Brooke Rucker, Katherine Bryant, Rachel Peragallo Urrutia | Presentation |
| Monday March 18 3:00 p.m. Eastern | Improving the Care of Transgender and Nonbinary Patients in an Academic Family Medicine Clinic WATCH IMPROVING THE CARE | Chichi Zhu, Kaylee Deardorff | Presentation |
| Tuesday March 19 1:00 p.m. Eastern | Reducing Rapid Response System Inequities for Patients With Limited English Proficiency and a Look at Mischaracterizations of Patient Language Data in the EHR WATCH REDUCING RAPID RESPONSE | Ricardo Crespo, Evan Raff | Presentation |
| Tuesday March 19 3:00 p.m. Eastern | Leading with resources to address maternal health-related social needs WATCH LEADING WITH RESOURCES | Kristin Tully, Alison Stuebe | Presentation |
| Wednesday March 20 11:00 a.m. Eastern | Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Support Systems for Transition-Aged Adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities in North Carolina WATCH BRIDGING THE GAP | McRae Scott, Hayden Loeb | Presentation |
| Thursday March 21 11:00 a.m. Eastern | Health Equity Research A to Z: Lessons from the RADx-UP Team WATCH A to Z | Colleen Murphy, Courtney Kelly, Marcus Layer, Laura Johnson, Alan Wells | Panel |
| Thursday March 21 1:00 p.m. Eastern | Assessing differences among organizational perspectives to target strategic leverage-points in cardiovascular disease evidence-based program implementation efforts in rural African American communities in North Carolina WATCH ASSESSING THE DIFFERENCES | Veena Reddy | Presentation |
| Thursday March 21 3:00 p.m. Eastern | Elevating Equity: The HBCU Health Equity Data Consortium's Innovative Approach to Addressing Health Disparities in North Carolina WATCH ELEVATING EQUITY | Breyana Davis, Joe F. West, Yiqing Yang, Anthony U. Emekalam, S. Nicole Diggs, Tennille D. Presley | Presentation |
2024 Highlights
Sessions and presenters
Registration and attendance
Feedback
Very well organized presentation with helpful graphics and charts. I also enjoyed the videos.
The presenters were really excellent. They are enthusiastic about their work and their findings are really interesting.
The voice recordings directly from participants and breaking up the presentation into sections for background and project info [made the session engaging].
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 Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO) program from its founding in 2001. His research and leadership helped improve identification, understanding and elimination of racial health disparities.
We are proud to honor his legacy through HERW to inspire impactful research on advancing access to quality healthcare for all.
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 2024 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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Monique C. Bethell, Ph.D., MPH
- Essie Torres, Ph.D., MPH
Thank you to the 2024 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week co-sponsor:
- UNC School of Medicine Office of Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement