Dear Colleagues:

[apologies for cross-postings]

RACE AND CLASS INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH

** call for abstracts **

We are looking for conceptual and data-based papers for presentation at the annual Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) meeting in 2008. The overall theme of the SER meetings is the social determinants of health.

There will be a contributed paper session on Race and Class Inequalities in Health and we encourage those of you working in this area to submit abstracts of your work.

Meeting dates June 24-27, 2008 in Chicago

Accepted abstracts will be distributed at the June meeting and will also be published in a Supplement issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Abstracts must be submitted online at the following web address:

http://epiresearch.org/abstracts/ <https://exchange.ucsf.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://epiresearch.org/abstracts/>

Submissions will be accepted until February 1, 2008, 11:59 p.m. EST.

Abstracts will then be reviewed and notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent via email to the primary author by April 30, 2008.

For inquiries about this specific session on Race and Class Inequalities in Health, contact Irene Yen ([log in to unmask] <mailto:irene.yen%40ucsf.edu> ) or Pat O'Campo ([log in to unmask] <mailto:pat.ocampo%40utoronto.ca> ). For information about the conference, please visit the SER website www.epiresearch.org <http://www.epiresearch.org/ <https://exchange.ucsf.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.epiresearch.org/> >

Thank you,





Patricia O'Campo, Ph.D.

Director, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
Professor, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/crich/faculty/ocampo.php <https://exchange.ucsf.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/crich/faculty/ocampo.php>


Irene H. Yen, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Epidemiologist
Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
3333 California Street, Suite 335
Box 0856
San Francisco, CA 94143-0856 [for FedEx - use 94118]
(415) 502 7046 (o)
(415) 502 8291 (fax)
http://dgim.ucsf.edu/people/yen.html
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