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For immediate release: Sept. 11, 2001
 

Lecture by U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher

WHO: Dr. David Satcher, U.S. surgeon general

WHAT: Lecture on "Reflections: The Surgeon General Reports on Surgeon General's Reports." Free and open to the public.

WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 at 4:30 p.m. PLEASE NOTE: CANCELLED

WHERE: Room 300, Wallace Hall on the Princeton campus
 

U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher will speak on the significance of reports issued by his office over the years to focus attention on important public health issues. "Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity," a strongly-worded report released Aug. 26, found that compared to whites, members of racial and ethnic minorities have less access to mental health services, often receive a poorer quality of mental health care and are underrepresented in mental health research. Other reports have covered topics such as the adverse health consequences of smoking, youth violence, suicide prevention and HIV/AIDS.

Satcher, who became U.S. surgeon general in 1998, was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1993 to 1998 and president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. from 1982 to 1993. While at the CDC, he spearheaded initiatives that increased childhood immunization rates, upgraded the nation's capability to respond to emerging infectious diseases, and laid the groundwork for a new early warning system to detect and prevent food-borne illnesses. The CDC also began a new era of greater emphasis on disease prevention during his tenure.

Satcher is the recipient of 25 honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors. Earlier this year, he received the Bennie Mays Trailblazer Award and the Jimmy and Roslyn Carter Award for contributions to the health of humankind from the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Office of External Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
 

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