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Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) and Duke University Health System Clinical Education & Professional Development present the “Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Health Professionals” for the 2016 Harriet Cook Carter Lecture on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Mary Trent Semans Center – Great Hall.

Lecture attendees will learn about the social determinants of health and reasons why health professionals should address them, what a culture of health is and how social determinants of health are integrated, as well as the necessary components of health professionals’ education.

Keynote speaker Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing for the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania, is a bilingual and bicultural nurse researcher. Prior to her role at the University of Pennsylvania, she served as professor, Nola J. Pender Collegiate Chair and associate dean for Research and Global Affairs at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

Villarruel has extensive research and practice experience with diverse Latino and Mexican populations and communities, and health promotion and health disparities research and practice. She incorporates a community-based participatory approach to her research. Specifically, her research focuses on the development and testing of interventions to reduce sexual risk behaviors among Mexican and Latino youth. She developed an efficacious program to reduce sexual risk behavior among Latino youth entitled Cuídate! that is disseminated nationally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of their Diffusion of Evidence Based Interventions program and the Office of Adolescent Health.

Villarruel has assumed leadership in many national and local organizations and received numerous honors and awards including membership in the Institute of Medicine and selection as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She earned her bachelor of science degree in nursing from Nazareth College, a master of science degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in nursing from Wayne State University. Villarruel is a registered nurse in both Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Contact Athena Chamblee at athena.chamblee@dm.duke.edu or call 919-684-9444 for more information.