African American Lecture Series July 2022

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July 21, 7 PM. Cullman Performance Hall in the NC History Center
In this talk by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at Shaw University, the broad subject of Black Health and Wellness will be discussed from a medical anthropological perspective.  Culture and society frame the way Blacks in America experience health and wellness.  

To ensure health and wellness for all people in our society we must reckon with the existing systemic inequity and inequality that is at the foundation of health care in the U.S.

Leonard Hall, located on Shaw University campus, has a legacy as both the first four-year medical school for black students in the US, and the first four-year medical school in NC.  Shaw U. was established to educate freedmen following the Civil War to serve African-Americans.
Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at Shaw University