Presented by the WashU Black Postdoctoral Association and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
- 12:00 – 1:00 PM: Seminar in Holden Auditorium (FLTC Building, 1st Floor)
- 1:00 – 2:00 PM: Catered reception in the Hearth (FLTC Building, 2nd Floor)
Postdocs, staff, and students are invited to celebrate Black History Month with a special seminar and reception. Attendees will hear from Dr. Will Ross, Associate Dean for Diversity, Principal Officer for Community Partnerships, and Alumni Endowed Professor of Medicine in Nephrology. Dr. Ross will discuss ‘The Future of Public Health and Community Engagement.’
All are welcome to attend. We hope you will join us to learn, reflect, and engage with your community.
Refreshments will be served upstairs in the FLTC Hearth following the seminar. Vegan options will be available. To help with catering estimates, please RSVP if you plan to attend.
Speaker
Will Ross, MD, MPH, is associate dean for diversity, principal officer for community partnerships, and alumni endowed professor of medicine in the Nephrology Division at Washington University School of Medicine. He has overseen diversity and inclusion and community engagement for three decades, creating durable pipeline programs to develop a diverse workforce of students, residents and faculty in medicine and public health. Those efforts include broadening the societal understanding of the social determinants of health, improving medicine, public health and STEM workforce diversity, and expanding the school of medicine’s local public health footprint.
He has promoted health equity locally, nationally and globally through collaborations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and public health officials in Ethiopia and Haiti. He is the co-founder of Casa de Salud Latino Health Center. Dr. Ross is board chair and founding member of the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, a magnet health professions high school in St. Louis. He has received and administered federal and local grants to attract underrepresented students and trainees into careers in STEM and medicine fields. He is a past member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Health Disparities Committee, where he helped incorporate social determinants of health in the CDC promotions framework and Healthy People 2020. He and is a founding associate editor of the public health journal, Frontiers in Public Health Education and Promotion.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all WashU sponsored events. If you are a person who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, don’t hesitate to contact the WashU Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in advance at 314-273-5384 or postdoc@wustl.edu.
Our programs are open to all members of the WashU community and participation is voluntary. The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs does not discriminate in access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or genetic information.
Questions about this event? Please contact Grace Beaudoin (beaudoing@wustl.edu).