Ancestry, Race, and Health: What Are We Learning in the Genomic Era?

Charles Rotimi provides a brief review of current thinking about human genetic variation and its relationship to human evolutionary history, group identity, and health disparities.

Presentation - 52 minutes 3 seconds

Designing Intervention to Prevent and Reduce Health Inequities

Flavio Marsiglia and Richard De La Garza describe lessons learned from the development of behavioral and pharmaceutical studies.

Presentation - 1 hour 5 minutes 25 seconds

Etiologies of Health Disparities

Luisel Ricks-Santi discusses the implication of breast cancer research, Carlos Pato describes lessons learned from a 20-year study in Portugal, and Ralph Sacco discusses looking for genetic determinants of carotid disease among Hispanic populations.

Presentation - 1 hour 12 minutes 56 seconds

Implications of Health Care Reform

Ken Thompson, David Pating, and Erick Guerrero discuss challenges and opportunities introduced to the health system by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Presentation - 1 hour 24 minutes 26 seconds

Opportunities in Addiction Research

David Shurtleff, Acting Deputy Director of NIDA, provides and snapshot of current translational science work and a call for future studies.

Presentation - 46 minutes 13 seconds

The Mexico-US Migration and Mental Health Study

Guilherme Borges describes the unique transnational dataset of the MUMMHS with an emphasis on what it can tell us about substance use disorders.

Presentation - 59 minutes 6 seconds