The National Association of Black Journalists is sponsoring a conference at the Morehouse School of Medicine to focus is on the health and wellbeing of the black community and empower journalists to better reach their audiences of the countless number of health issues that plague African Americans. Heart disease, breast cancer, strokes, mental health, HIV/AIDS and childhood obesity are among the topics addressed through a series of seminar and round table discussions.
Health policy analysts, physicians, researchers, and corporations will join journalists to uncover why African Americans represent an unprecedented number of those victims to often preventable and curable disease. The conference will also show journalists how to cover these major health and medical stories using today's multimedia model.
Presenters include Dr. Kevin Fenton of the Centers for Disease Control, Marian Wright Edelman, of the Children's Defense Fund, Phill Wilson of the Black AIDS Institute and Linda Blount of the American Cancer Society.
The conference is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine and the Schering Plough Corporation.