This two-hour program is a videotape of the June 21, 2005 Stone Center Panel. It was broadcast in the 11th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Minority Health Project.

UNC-Chapel Hill's annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference is a unique forum that enables experts in the area of health disparities to reach an audience of several hundred researchers, educators, administrators, practitioners, and students throughout the U.S. Initiated in 1995, its aims include the identification and reduction of barriers to conducting health research in minority communities. Read more on the UNC website.

This program consists of a moderated panel discussion, where panelists explore critical health disparity issues such as access to care, environmental, socio-economic status, data collection, political implications, and community involvement. Using the "Perspectives in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health" from 1985 as framework, the panelists address the definition of health disparities and discuss the progress, as well as gaps in healthcare over the past 20 years.

Stephanie Crayton, Media Relations Manager in the Office of Public Affairs and Marketing at the University of North Carolina Health Care moderates the panel. Panel members include: Gem Daus, Director of Policy, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum; Carole Anne Heart, Executive Director, Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board; Gary Grant, Executive Director, Concerned Citizens of Tillery, NC; Dr. Rosa Perez Perdomo, Secretary of Health, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and Dr. Allan Noonan, Director of Public Health Programs, Morgan State University.