Talk: The Special Diabetes Program for Indians: The Power of Evidence-Based Practices

Spero Manson

Join us for a talk by Spero Manson, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry and Director at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. 

• When: Friday, September 6, 2013, 11:30am -12:30pm
• Where: PH C100 (Mobley Auditorium) at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, 1025 E. 7^th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405

Sponsored by the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Center for Research on Health Disparities. Co-sponsored by the Indiana University Department of Anthropology, the First Nations Education and Cultural Center, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies program.

Dr. Mason directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health and is the author of 175 articles on the assessment, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of physical, alcohol, drug, and mental health problems of Native people.  Dr. Manson was elected to the Institute of Medicine and has received numerous further awards such as the American Public Health Association's Rema Lapouse Mental Health Epidemiology Award and NIH's Health Disparities Award for Excellence. Dr. Manson is from the Pembina Chippewa of Minnesota.