[act-ma] Race, Class, and Obesity in the African American Community

[eric at ericweltman.com]

Race, Class, and Obesity in the African American Community

A forum sponsored by the Massachusetts Public Health Association's
Food and Nutrition Section

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

6:00 – 8:00 pm

Roxbury YMCA

285 Martin Luther King Boulevard

Welcoming Remarks:

Senator Dianne Wilkerson

Featured Speakers:

Shiriki Kumanyika, Associate Dean for Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Robert Hall, Acting Chair, African American Studies Department,
Northeastern University

Co-sponsored by the Boston Organization of Nutritionists and Dieticians
(BOND) of Color, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the Roxbury
YMCA, and the Fitness for Life Program, Boston Medical Center

For more information, please contact Terry Mason at MPHA: 617-524-6696,
ext. 103; tmason at mphaweb.org