Black Male Health

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 – 8 am to 12 pmTamkin Auditorium, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095Innovative Methods to Improve the Health of African-American Men ConferenceUCLA Urology brings some of the leading minds in barbershop-based health outreach together for a free half-day symposium to share the lessons they have learned in trust building, community interaction, and balancing research and outreach. Working with communities is one of the most promising routes available to addressing the great inequalities seen in the burden of many diseases. Indeed, the future health of the nation will be determined to a large extent by how effectively we work with communities to eliminate health disparities among those populations experiencing a disproportionate burden of disease, disability, and death (Office of Minority Health & Health Equity, 2012).””