Please join us for the first research panel of the new Social Science and Justice Research (SSJR) Consortium. This panel will highlight several different examples of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and community engagement currently happening among UAB faculty from a range of departments. Panelists will discuss their collaborative activities, and efforts incorporating a social science lens into various disciplines and topics. Speakers include:

• Laurel Iverson Hitchcock, Ph.D., MPH, LICSW/PIP
  Associate Professor, Department of Social Work
• Olivio J. Clay, Ph.D. FGSA
  Professor, Department of Psychology
  Director, Community Outreach, Diversity & Inclusion (CODI) Core | UAB Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC)
  Director, Analysis Core | Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)   
• Tina Kempin Reuter, Ph.D.
  Director, Institute for Human Rights | Director, Social Science and Justice Research
  Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Administration | Anthropology | Social Work
• Michael Mugavero, M.D., MHSc
  Director, Center for Outcomes Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE) | Co-Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) | Co-Director of the Center For AIDS Research
  Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Michelle Wooten, Ph.D.
  Lead, Starry Skies South
  Assistant Professor of Astronomy Education, Department of Physics