The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico hosts an informal lunch and discussion of HIV/AIDS policy on Tuesday, Aug. 7, from noon-1:30 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, please contact the RWJF Center at 277-0130 or rwjf@unm.edu. The event will be held in Anthropology room 178, is free and open to anyone interested in HIV/AIDS policy or health policy. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP.
Photo: Antonia Villarruel to be guest speaker.
The discussion features Antonia Villarruel the 2007-08 Carter Fleck Visiting Professor of Nursing at UNM. Villarruel is the Nola J. Pender Collegiate Chair in Health Promotion and director of the Center for Health Promotion at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor.
On faculty at the University of Michigan since 2000, she also served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in health promotion and risk reduction at the University of Michigan.
An award-winning teacher and researcher, Villarruel was inducted into the Michigan Nurses Hall of Fame and listed in the “Top Latinas in Health and Sciences” by Hispanic Magazine in 2004. Villarruel’s current research focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention and risk reduction among Latino youth.
The RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM seeks to encourage greater ethnic and racial representation in the national health policy dialogue. The Center accomplishes this by providing educational opportunities for doctoral students in the social sciences at UNM; increasing awareness about the need for greater ethnic diversity in US health policy decision-making; and conducting independent research and supporting a national research agenda that promotes a better understanding of health issues, including access, cost, and health care quality to inform the policy debate.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at August 6, 2007 11:52 AM