Part 2: Dr. William Carter Jenkins Opening Session APHA

Dr. William Carter Jenkins has devoted himself for nearly four decades to the twin causes of eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities and expanding opportunities for racial/ethnic minorities to enter and succeed in careers in biostatistics and epidemiology. Currently working with the University of North Carolina Institute of African American Research and as co-director of the Minority Health Project, Dr. Jenkins previously worked for 30 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he helped to end the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and to establish numerous initiatives to improve public health, especially for African Americans, American Indians, and others.
Dr. Jenkins was born on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and did his undergraduate work in Mathematics at Morehouse College in Atlanta. After earning a masters degree in biostatistics from Georgetown University, Dr. Jenkins earned his M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. While at UNC, he helped to found the School of Public Health Annual Minority Health Conference. He has also completed post-doctoral work in Biostatistics at Harvard University School of Public Health.

Part 2- From the Opening General Session of the American Public Health Association's 138th Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado
During his long career, Dr. Jenkins has been instrumental in founding the Institute for African American Health; establishing Project IMHOTEP, an annual summer internship program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that has given many African American and American Indian undergraduates hands-on experience in supervised public health research; the Public Health Sciences Institute at Morehouse College; the Society for Analysis of African American Public Health Issues; and the Master of Public Health program at Morehouse College, the first such program at a historically black institution. Dr. Jenkins has held leadership positions in the American Public Health Association, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American Statistical Association. Dr. Jenkins continues to make major contributions to teaching and scholarship in public health.

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