{"id":35715,"date":"2014-02-03T05:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35715"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:22:18","slug":"lecture-evolutionary-versus-racial-medicine-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35715","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moa.wfu.edu\/2014\/01\/lecture-evolutionary-versus-racial-medicine-why-it-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Wake Forest University<\/a><br \/>\nBroyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall<br \/>\n1834 Wake Forest Road<br \/>\nWinston-Salem, North Carolina 27106<br \/>\nThursday, 2014-02-06, 19:00 EST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/jsnn.ncat.uncg.edu\/faculty\/joseph-l-graves-jr-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr.<\/a>, Associate Dean for Research, Joint School of Nanoscience &amp; Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&amp;T State University &amp; UNC-Greensboro, will discuss the biological and social definitions of race. He will explain how these differ and why conflating the two has had disastrous consequences for biomedical research and clinical practice. Graves will also discuss why understanding basic evolutionary mechanisms are indispensable for comprehending human biological variation and how these in turn may be applied to addressing ongoing health disparities.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/moa.wfu.edu\/2014\/01\/lecture-evolutionary-versus-racial-medicine-why-it-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters Wake Forest University Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106 Thursday, 2014-02-06, 19:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr., Associate Dean for Research, Joint School of Nanoscience &amp; Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&amp;T State University &amp; UNC-Greensboro, will discuss the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,13,8,20],"tags":[7847,9188,7846,16924],"class_list":["post-35715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-joseph-graves","tag-joseph-graves-jr","tag-joseph-l-graves-jr","tag-wake-forest-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}