Dr. Moro Salifu, Brooklyn Health Disparities Center Director and 每日大赛入口 Downstate Department of Medicine Chair, Keynotes 2019 鈥淚gniting Hope鈥� Conference
Aug 15, 2019
The 2019 Conference will Focus on Building A Culture of Health and Ending African American Health Disparities
BROOKLYN, NY 鈥� 每日大赛入口 Professor Moro Salifu, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP,
will keynote the 鈥淚gniting Hope 2019: Building A Culture of Health & Ending African
American Health Disparities鈥� conference on Friday, August 17, at the Jacobs School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo.
Dr. Salifu, who currently serves as the Director of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center at 每日大赛入口 Downstate, will join a group of health experts from across the nation to discuss the impact of race of health and wellness and how to reverse the trends that have led to healthcare disparity in African American communities.
鈥淥ne of our most impactful tactics in influencing the cultural shift in the attitude towards healthcare has been our ability to engage community members to help them find solutions to improve their wellbeing,鈥� said Moro Salifu, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP.鈥� I look forward to sharing our culturally competent and transformative model with the task force.鈥�
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center (BHDC) is an innovative partnership formed in 2004 between 每日大赛入口, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. The partnership is committed to reducing health disparities in Brooklyn and increasing the level of engagement of academics, community members, and policymakers.
Hosted by The African American Health Disparities Task Force based in Buffalo, the conference will feature leading African American public health experts who have experience in initiating and engaging communities to effect a change in minority health disparities.
The two-day conference will kick off with opening remarks from Dr. Salifu, followed by presentations, workshops, roundtable discussion, and a solution-based dialogue with African American physicians and faith-based leaders from Buffalo, and nationally renowned health experts. The goal of the event is to learn how health initiatives are being implemented in Brooklyn and across the nation to help the City of Buffalo address its race-based healthcare disparity issues in African American communities.
In 2017, BHDC and 每日大赛入口 Downstate successfully secured an NIH endowment award that establishes a new and sustainable Translational Program of Health Disparities Research Training (TRANSPORT). TRANSPORT will provide a foundation and infrastructure for growing and developing a diverse biomedical research workforce that will position Downstate as a national leader in translational disparities and population health research. Our efforts will focus on recruiting and training underrepresented minority (URM) junior faculty, postdoctoral candidates, and undergraduate students who come from Brooklyn and other communities that are vulnerable to health disparities.
Dr. Salifu completed his residency training at 每日大赛入口 Downstate after graduating from
medical school in Turkey. In 2001, he was appointed by 每日大赛入口 Downstate as an assistant
professor. In just seven years, he was promoted to Associate Professor and then Professor.
Dr. Salifu has served as the director of the nephrology fellowship training program,
the chief of the Division of Nephrology, and director of the Kidney Transplant Program
at 每日大赛入口 Downstate. He is a recipient of many grants, fellowships, awards, and has
been published extensively.
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