Media Advisory: RU-N to Host Community Briefing on African-American Brain Health Initiative
Photo: Zumba class at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ. New Hope is a church partner of the African-American Brain Health Initiative
This event is open to the media.
With African Americans possessing a higher risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease than the broader population, Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) neuroscientist Mark Gluck is leading a team that is using a five-year $1-million grant from the New Jersey Department of Health – obtained through a
competition among states for funding from the federal Department of Health and Human Services – to teach people how to protect their brains through exercise. Through the African-American Brain Health Initiative, a three-way partnership among RU-N, the state and federal governments, and local churches, Gluck’s team intends to demonstrate that exercise improves memory and cognitive vitality, thus reducing people’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Gluck and RU-N Assistant Chancellor for University-Community Partnerships Diane Hill will bestow a special honor upon Acting Commissioner Cathleen Bennett of the New Jersey Department of Health. Bennett also will share brief remarks with the audience, placing the African-American Brain Health Initiative in the context of other initiatives statewide that she is recognizing as part of Minority and Multicultural Health Month.
What:
A briefing on the progress of the African-American Brain Health Initiative, followed by a special award presentation
Who:
Dr. Mark Gluck, Professor of Neuroscience at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Science at RU-N
Dr. Diane Hill, Assistant Chancellor for University-Community Partnerships at RU-N
Dr. M. Carolyn Daniels, Executive Director of the Office of Minority and Multicultural Health of the New Jersey Department of Health
Glenda Wright, Community Research Coordinator of the African-American Brain Health Initiative
Dr. Ashlee Shaw, Associate Director of the African-American Brain Health Initiative
Dr. Anays Sotolongo, East Orange Veterans Administration Medical Center
Margaret Cammarieri, Regional Vice President of Health Equity and Multicultural Initiatives for the American Heart Association|American Stroke Association
Ysamerlyn Gonzalez, RU-N undergraduate student
Al-Nisa Murray, RU-N undergraduate student
Sponsors:
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Office of University-Community Partnerships
American Heart Association|American Stroke Association
New Jersey Department of Health, Office of Minority and Multicultural Health
When:
Friday, April 29, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Where:
Rutgers University–Newark
Paul Robeson Campus Center—Multipurpose Room 231-233
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, NJ 07102
Media Contact:
Peter Englot, peter.englot@rutgers.edu, 973-353-5541
