The Emerging European Acceptance of “Scanlan’s Rule” in Health Disparities Research: Will the United States Be Left Behind?, presented at American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting & Exposition, Denver, Colorado, Nov. 7-10, 2010.
Measuring Health Inequalities by an Approach Unaffected by the Overall Prevalence of the Outcomes at Issue, to be presented at the Royal Statistical Society Conference 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 7-11, 2009.
Interpreting Differential Effects in Light of Fundamental Statistical Tendencies, presented at 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and Canadian Statistical Society, Washington, DC, Aug. 1-6, 2009.
Approaches to Measuring Health Disparities that are Unaffected by the Prevalence of an Outcome, to be presented at American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, California, Oct. 25-29, 2008.
An Approach to Measuring Differences Between Rates that are not Affected by the Overall Prevalence of an Outcome, to be presented at the British Society for Populations Studies Conference 2008, Manchester, England, Sept. 10-12, 2008
Evaluating The Sizes Of Differences Between Group Rates In Settings Of Different Overall Prevalence, presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and Canadian Statistical Society, Denver, Colorado, Aug. 3-7, 2008.
"Measures of Health Inequalities that are Unaffected by the Prevalence of an Outcome," to be presented at the 16th Nordic Demographic Symposium, Helsinki, Finland, June 5-7, 2008.
"Measuring Health Disparities," presented at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Center for Health Disparities, 2008 Health Disparities Conference, Topeka, Kansas, Apr. 1, 2008
"Can We Actually Measure Health Disparities?" presented at the 7th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 17-18, 2008 (invited paper)
"Measurement Problems in the National Healthcare Disparities Report," American Public Health Association 135th Annual Meeting & Exposition, Washington, DC, Nov 3-7, 3007
"Methodological Issues in Comparing the Sizes of Differences Between Rates of Experiencing or Avoiding an Outcome in Different Settings," presented at the British Society for Population Studies 2007 Annual Conference, St. Andrews , Scotland, Sept. 11-13, 2007
"Exploring Methods to Measure Health Inequalities that are Unaffected by Changes in the Prevalence of an Outcome," presented at Social, Cultural and Economic Determinants of Health: International Perspectives for Global Action (1st Conference of the Journal Public Health, Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health), Lisbon, Portugal, May 9-11, 2007
"Understanding Variations in Group Differences That are the Results of Variation in the Prevalence of an Outcome," presented at the American Public Health Association 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA, Nov. 4-8, 2006.
"The Misinterpretation of Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom," presented at the British Society for Populations Studies 2006 Annual Conference, Southampton, England, Sept. 18-20, 2006
"Measuring Health Disparities," Roundtable lunch at 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and Canadian Statistical Society. Seattle, Washington, Aug. 6-10, 2006.
"The Misinterpretation of Health Inequalities in Nordic Countries," presented at the 5th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, Esbjerg, Denmark, June 15-17, 2006
"Measuring Health Inequalities," presented at the 5th International Conference on Health Economics, Management and Policy, Athens, Greece, June 5-7, 2006
"Understanding Increasing Racial Differences in Mortality (and Declining Differences in Survival)," presented at the First Annual Health Disparities Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, Mar. 19, 2006
“The Difficulties of Interpreting Changing Racial and Socioeconomic Differences in Health Outcomes," presented at the International Conference on Health Policy Research, Boston, MA, Dec. 9, 2001
"The Misunderstood Relationship Between Declining Mortality and Increasing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Mortality Rates," presented at the conference "Making a Difference: Is the Health Gap Widening?" sponsored by the Norwegian National Institute of Public Health, Oslo Norway (May 14, 2001) See abstract and presentation links below.
"Affirmative Action for Women" presented at the conference "Women and the Constitution" sponsored by the Carter Center of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (December, 1987)