Guest Keynote Speaker
"Using Lessons Learned through Engaged Research to Advance Health Equity"
Giselle Corbie, MD, MSc
Kenan Distinguished Professor of the Departments of Social Medicine and Medicine Director of the University of the North Carolina Center for Health Equity Research Associate Provost for the University of North Carolina Rural Initiatives
Giselle Corbie, MD, MSc is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of the Departments of Social Medicine and Medicine, Director of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Health Equity Research, and Associate Provost for UNC Rural Initiatives. She is nationally recognized for her scholarly work on the inclusion of disparity populations in research, and is accomplished in drawing communities, faculty, and health care providers into working partnerships in clinical and translational research. Her empirical work, using both qualitative and quantitively methodologies, has focused on the methodological, ethical, and practical issues of research to address racial disparities in health. She has served as the primary investigator of community-based participatory research projects focused on disease risk reduction among rural racial and ethnic minorities. These projects have included funding through the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Nursing Research, Greenwall Foundation, and the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Dr. Corbie is currently the Co-primary investigator for the Robert Wood Junior Foundation's Advancing Change Leadership Clinical Scholars Program. She previously served as the President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and in 2018, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine for her ground-breaking contributions toward achieving community and population health equity.