U.S. Congressman Elijah Cummings is keynote speaker at Howard University’s Health Care Symposium in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) will give the keynote address on disparities in U.S. healthcare at Howard University’s one-day Symposium focusing on disparities in U.S. health care, April 10, 2012.
The one-day Symposium will be held at Howard University’s Armour J. Blackburn Center, 2397 Sixth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., April 10, 2012, 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The event will be hosted by CNN Anchor Fredricka Whitfield.
Cummings (D-MD), a member of the 111th Congress and a leading advocate of President Obama’s Healthcare Reform, will deliver a key note address on Medical and Legal Issues Surrounding U.S. Health Care.
Jannette L. Dates, Ph.D., Dean Emerita of theUniversity’s School of Communications, said, “We are all aware that health care continues to be one of the most discussed topics in America and in other global communitiesâ€.
 “While Congress wrestles with health care reform and the administration attempts to shape the policies for the coming years, the American people must continue to be a part of the discussion, and The Initiative on Democracy, Markets, Communications and Technology will increase Howard University’s visibility as the center of leadership related to issues concerning multicultural groups as we help to influence the discourse.â€
For more information, visit the University’s Web site at www.howard.edu. The telephone # is 202-806-5983
The Carnegie Corporation of New York funds the Howard University Initiative on Democracy, Markets, Communication and Technology. Created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, the Carnegie Corporation mission is “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.†The Corporation’s funding is to assist Howard University to showcase its faculty and other experts to discuss the interdependence of democracy, markets, communication, and technology to immediate, complex issues that are of challenge to America and across the world.
