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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2009. Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12637.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2009. Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12637.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2009. Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12637.
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A Workshop Agenda Investing in Children’s Health: A Community Approach to Addressing Health Disparities Roundtable on Health Disparities Public Meeting Morehouse School of Medicine’s Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Auditorium 720 Westview Drive, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia January 24, 2008 8:30 a.m—Welcome Dr. John E. Maupin Jr., President Morehouse School of Medicine Dr. Gary Nelson, President Healthcare Georgia Foundation Member, Roundtable on Health Disparities 8:40 a.m.—Keynote Address Dr. David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States,  Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine 9:00 a.m.—Investments to Promote Children’s Health: A Systematic Literature Review and Economic Analysis of Interventions in the Preschool Period Dr. Bernard Guyer, Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health  Clinical Practice and Community Building: Addressing Racial Disparities in Healthy Child Development Dr. Charles Bruner, Executive Director Child Family Policy Center 73

74 FOCUSING ON CHILDREN’S HEALTH 10:00 a.m.—Break 10:15 a.m.—From Policy to Practice: How Policy Changes Can Affect Children’s Lives  Christine Ferguson, Associate Research Professor of Health Policy The George Washington University Yvonne Sanders-Butler, Principal Browns Mill Elementary and Magnet for High Achievers 11:15 a.m.—Audience Discussion 11:45 a.m.—Lunch—Auditorium Lobby 1:00 p.m.—Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Mildred Thompson, Senior Director PolicyLink 1:45 p.m.—Community Development Approaches: Overcoming Challenges, Striving for Change Veda Johnson  Whitefoord Community Program, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine Marshall Kreuter, Professor of Public Health Georgia State University Wayne Giles, Director Division of Adult and Community Health Center for Disease Control and Prevention 3:00 p.m.—Break 3:15 p.m.—Do Businesses Have a Role in Improving Communities or Improving Children’s Lives? Sandra White, Medical Director WellPoint, Inc. Maureen Kelly, Director of Community Relations and Vice President ING Foundation

APPENDIX A 75 Michele Courton Brown, Senior Vice President of Charitable Management Services, Bank of America 4:15 p.m.—Audience Discussion 5:00 p.m.—Adjourn

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Socioeconomic conditions are known to be major determinants of health at all stages of life, from pregnancy through childhood and adulthood. "Life-course epidemiology" has added a further dimension to the understanding of the social determinants of health by showing an association between early-life socioeconomic conditions and adult health-related behaviors, morbidity, and mortality. Sensitive and critical periods of development, such as the prenatal period and early childhood, present significant opportunities to influence lifelong health. Yet simply intervening in the health system is insufficient to influence health early in the life course. Community-level approaches to affect key determinants of health are also critical.

Many of these issues were raised in the 1995 National Academies book, Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth. The present volume builds upon this earlier book with presentations and examples from the field. Focusing on Children's Health describes the evidence linking early childhood life conditions and adult health; discusses the contribution of the early life course to observed racial and ethnic disparities in health; and highlights successful models that engage both community factors and health care to affect life course development.

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