Symposium explores role of genes, race, health care disparities in HIV spread
Officials from CDC, NCI to join UCLA scientists at UCLA-sponsored event
WHAT:
This half-day symposium, featuring speakers and panelists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, the UCLA AIDS Institute, and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, will address the ways in which genetics, race and health care disparities prevent or promote the acquisition of HIV. The UCLA AIDS Institute is sponsoring the event.
WHEN
10:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17
WHERE:
Lakretz Hall, 619 Charles E. Young Drive East, on the UCLA campus
SPEAKERS:
Symposium speakers will include:
- Stephen J. O'Brien, chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute
- Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Irvin S.Y. Chen, director of the UCLA AIDS Institute
- Gail Wyatt, associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institute and director of the Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities at UCLA
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John K. Williams, assistant professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA
COST:
Admission is free. Parking is available for $9 in Structure 2 on Charles E. Young Drive East.
INFORMATION:
Seating is limited and reservations are required. R.S.V.P. to Jina Lee at 310-794-7209 or aidsinst@ucla.edu. See interactive map at http://maps.ucla.edu/campus for directions to Lakretz Hall and parking.
CONTACT:
Enrique Rivero, UCLA Health Sciences Media Relations, 310-794-2273, erivero@mednet.ucla.edu