Equity and Inclusion Presents Two Events for HSC Visiting Scholar

The Divi­sion for Equity and Inclu­sion presents the Health Sci­ences Cen­ter Office of Diver­sity Vis­it­ing Scholar Deleso Alford, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, School of Law, Florida A&M Uni­ver­sity, on Thurs­day, July 12.

The first event, a crit­i­cal issues round­table, takes place from 11:30 a.m. — 1 p.m. in Ortega Hall room 335. The round­table fea­tures Alford and col­leagues from UNM’s main and north campuses:

Emily A. Hao­zous, assis­tant pro­fes­sor, Col­lege of Nurs­ing
Nancy Lopez, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, Soci­ol­ogy
Dr. Jamal Mar­tin, clin­i­cal assis­tant pro­fes­sor, Fam­ily Com­mu­nity Med­i­cine
Mar­garet Mon­toya, School of Law

The sec­ond event, Why the Truth Mat­ters: Sto­ries Ignored by our Health­care, Research & Legal Sys­tems, is set for 6 – 8 p.m. in Anthro­pol­ogy 163 on the UNM main campus.

Alford will dis­cuss women as the over­looked vic­tims of the infa­mous U.S. Pub­lic Health Ser­vices Syphilis Study at Tuskegee, Ala., in which the U.S. gov­ern­ment pur­posely chose not to treat African Amer­i­can men diag­nosed with syphilis.

Alford is in res­i­dence until July 27 work­ing on her writ­ing and host­ing ses­sions with UNM stu­dents, fac­ulty, staff, post­grad­u­ate learn­ers and admin­is­tra­tors. She is also be work­ing with the wider New Mex­ico com­mu­nity while she is at UNM.

For more infor­ma­tion about her pub­lic lec­tures and com­mu­nity out­reach, con­tact the UNM HSC Office of Diver­sity at 505–272-2728 or visit: HSC Pro­grams.