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Capitol Perspective: Health Disparities and Child Obesity

January 8, 2008

Edward M. Kennedy senator, D-MA

Barbara Ferrer executive director, Boston Public Health Commission

Alexy D. Arauz Boudreau instructor, Harvard Medical School

JudyAnn Bigby secretary, MA Department of Health and Human Services

Ted Kennedy hosts a panel discussion about health disparities in minority populations and the increasing problem of childhood obesity.

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Topics: Health & Happiness

Tags: Race

Presented By WGBH and Emerson College:

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I

CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.

Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Andrew Bacevich

Conservative historian Andrew Bacevich discusses his provocative book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Bacevich joins Charles Sennott, founder of the online news service GlobalPost, to discuss the challenges the Obama administration faces in Afghanistan.

Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century

Physician and humanitarian James Orbinski discusses his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century.

Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?

Lecture Seventeen: "Arguing Affirmative Action"

Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Nation: Part I

R. Nicholas Burns

In Our Defense

Author: C Kennedy

Publisher: Harper Perennial (1992)

Binding: Paperback, 432 pages

True Compass: A Memoir

Author: Edward M. Kennedy

Publisher: Twelve (2009)

Binding: Hardcover, 532 pages

America Back on Track

Author: Senator Edward M. Kennedy

Publisher: Viking Adult (2006)

Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages

Cross-Cultural Medicine

Author: Judyann Bigby

Publisher: American College of Physicians (2003)

Binding: Paperback, 289 pages

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