The 2024 USM Health Equity Convening, a unique opportunity for cross-institutional learning, will focus on Advancing Civic Health and Health Equity. This convening brings institutions together to share their campus action plans, engage in cross-institutional learning, and discuss critical issues related to motivating students to build community and change the future of health through political and civic engagement.
This convening brings together institutional teams in a facilitated workshop-style event to discuss how we can pursue collective efforts to inspire students as leaders in advancing health equity.
This event is by invitation only. Registration is now closed. Please contact elmc@umd.edu and noneill@usmd.edu for more information.
Location
Colony Ballroom, University of Maryland, College Park STAMP Student Union
Date
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time: 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM
Schedule Items:
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Registration & Breakfast Schedule Item Time:
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Team ExchangeSchedule Item Time:
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Welcome RemarksSchedule Item Time:
9:45 am -10:45 amSchedule Item Title:
Keynote Address: Dr. Trinidad JacksonSchedule Item Time:
10:55 am - 11:55 am Schedule Item Title:
Concurrent SessionsSchedule Item Time:
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Schedule Item Title:
LunchSchedule Item Time:
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Plenary: Centers as Agents of Change for Civic and Health Equity Schedule Item Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pmSchedule Item Title:
Team Time & Consultations with Experts (2 rounds)Schedule Item Time:
3:00 pm - 3:30 pmSchedule Item Title:
Team Share Schedule Item Time:
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmSchedule Item Title:
Closing with Dr. Wrynn, Senior Vice ChancellorDr. Trinidad Jackson
Asst. Dean for Culture and Liberation and Asst. Professor in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
Dr. Trinidad Jackson hails from St. Louis, MO, and currently resides in Louisville, KY. A proud HBCU undergraduate alum, Dr. Jackson attended Kentucky State University focusing on psychology and biology. He went on to obtain master's degrees in clinical psychology (Morehead State) and public health (University of Louisville). As a mental health professional, he provided therapy to community members from the most marginalized neighborhoods in Louisville. He put his public health training to use in Nashville, Tennessee as he managed CDC-funded chronic disease prevention policy projects with community members and organizations, created health equity initiatives with Metro Nashville Public Health Department executive leadership, and co-led fatherhood initiatives supported by the Administration for Children and Families. Dr. Jackson has also led participatory teaching, research, and policy change initiatives across multiple communities in Ghana, West Africa. In November 2014, the fight for collective liberation summoned Dr. Jackson’s mind, body, and spirit back to St. Louis as a disruptor and social movement scientist during the Ferguson Uprising. Upon returning to Louisville in 2015, he led community-based participatory research that explored power, oppression, and the need for critical consciousness and action through lenses of justice, safety, hope, and racial equity; the orientation to structural violence within these research initiatives led Dr. Jackson and his colleagues to secure designation as a CDC Center of Excellence for violence prevention, which centered social justice youth development. His work has been disseminated at local, national, and international levels through academic publications, presentations, and art mediums. He is currently the Assistant Dean for Culture and Liberation and an Asst. Professor in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville; he also holds a joint appointment as a Senior Advisor within Kentucky’s State Government. Dr. Jackson has been awarded with university, local, state, and federal-level citations for his dedication to community, research, service, and leadership.
