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Thank you to everyone who presented or attended the 2024 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week (HERW)!
Highlights and recording links will be added on this page.

The Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week (HERW), hosted by the Center for Health Equity Research, brings faculty, staff, students and community members together to share health equity research at UNC. HERW is an opportunity to facilitate collaboration, innovation and equity in the UNC School of Medicine, across Carolina’s communities and beyond. All sessions are open to the entire Carolina community and the general public.

In 2020, the UNC School of Medicine collaborated with CHER to host the first Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium. In 2023, the symposium expanded into a week dedicated to highlighting health equity research at Carolina. HERW 2024 will include research presentations and panel discussions.

HERW is co-sponsored by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement.

2024 HERW Schedule of Events


The full schedule of events for the 2024 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week is below. Details, including registration links, will be added as they are finalized.

Do you have any accommodation needs we should take into account when planning this program? If yes, please email us at cher@unc.ed at least three business days before the program.

Date & TimeTitleSpeaker(s)Event type
Monday
March 18
11:00 a.m. Eastern
Meet the Researchers

REGISTER FOR MEET THE RESEARCHERS
Cristy Page, Executive Dean, UNC School of Medicine, and Chief Academic Officer, UNC Health Kickoff session with welcome remarks from Cristy Page
Monday
March 18
1:00 p.m. Eastern
Amplifying community voices through research: A community-based approach to survey recruitment and retention

REGISTER FOR AMPLIFYING
Shaunette Howard, Brooke Rucker, Katherine Bryant, Rachel Peragallo UrrutiaPresentation
Monday
March 18
3:00 p.m. Eastern
Improving the Care of Transgender and Nonbinary Patients in an Academic Family Medicine Clinic

REGISTER FOR IMPROVING
Chichi Zhu, Kaylee DeardorffPresentation
Tuesday
March 19
1:00 p.m. Eastern
Reducing Rapid Response System Inequities for Patients With Limited English Proficiency and a Look at Mischaracterizations of Patient Language Data in the EHR

REGISTER FOR REDUCING
Ricardo Crespo, Evan RaffPresentation
Tuesday
March 19
3:00 p.m. Eastern
Leading with resources to address maternal health-related social needs

REGISTER FOR LEADING
Kristin Tully, Alison StuebePresentation
Wednesday
March 20
11:00 a.m. Eastern
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Support Systems for Transition-Aged Adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities in North Carolina

REGISTER FOR BRIDGING
McRae Scott, Hayden LoebPresentation
Thursday
March 21
11:00 a.m. Eastern
Health Equity Research A to Z: Lessons from the RADx-UP Team

REGISTER FOR A to Z
Colleen Murphy, Courtney Kelly, Marcus Layer, Laura Johnson, Alan WellsPanel
Thursday
March 21
1:00 p.m. Eastern
Assessing differences among organizational perspectives to target strategic leverage-points in cardiovascular disease evidence-based program implementation efforts in rural African American communities in North Carolina

REGISTER FOR ASSESSING
Veena ReddyPresentation
Thursday
March 21
3:00 p.m. Eastern
Elevating Equity: The HBCU Health Equity Data Consortium's Innovative Approach to Addressing Health Disparities in North Carolina

REGISTER FOR ELEVATING
Breyana Davis, Joe F. West, Yiqing Yang, Anthony U. Emekalam, S. Nicole Diggs, Tennille D. PresleyPresentation

About Dr. Paul A. Godley


HERW is named in honor of the late Dr. Paul A. Godley, Rush S. Dickson Professor of Hematology/Oncology in the UNC Department of Medicine and Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the UNC School of Medicine.

Dr. Godley directed the Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO) program from its founding in 2001. His research and leadership helped improve identification, understanding and elimination of racial health disparities.

We are proud to honor his legacy through HERW to inspire impactful research on advancing access to quality healthcare for all.

Learn more about Dr. Godley at this page maintained by Victor J. Schoenbach, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Thank you


This program is made possible in part because of generous donations from our supporters.

Thank you to the 2024 Paul A. Godley Steering Committee:

  • Stephanie Brown, Ph.D.
  • Audrea Caesar, Ph.D.
  • Giselle Corbie, M.D., M.Sc.
  • Michelle Floris-Moore, M.D., M.S.
  • Benny Joyner Jr., M.D., MPH
  • Raúl Necochea, Ph.D., M.Sc.
  • E. Nate Thomas III, Ph.D.
  • Becky White, M.D., MPH
  • Monique C. Bethell, Ph.D., MPH
  • Essie Torres, Ph.D., MPH

Thank you to the 2024 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week co-sponsor: