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The U.S. Public Health Service Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee








Recognition, Remembrance, and Reflection: The Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee and Macon County, AL						Print
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										**“**When you place Tuskegee in front of the name, it gives Tuskegee the ownership, it leaves a scar on the town of Tuskegee and of Macon County. Tuskegee was not, is not, the owner of the study. It is the United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male at Tuskegee.**”**
**Mrs. Lillie Tyson Head*****President of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation***A sepia photograph of a group of African American men in an outdoor settingThis event will acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the end of the ***United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male at Tuskegee and Macon County, Alabama, 1932 -1972.*** The intention is to create a space for authentic, accurate storytelling and discussion regarding current and future opportunities for public health leaders at CDC and beyond to move from trust to trustworthiness.
The program will examine what happened, how and why it happened, lessons learned, the palpable effects still felt today, and CDC’s on-going role in addressing health equity.
Participants will include experts in the fields of public health, ethics, history, and journalism. In addition to our speakers, we will feature moderated panel discussions. The program will be a hybrid event, available both virtually and in-person.Fiftieth Anniversary - Recognition, Remembrance, and Reflection - The Syphilis Study at Tuskegee and Macon County, Alabama**This event was held Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Watch our recorded session and related videos below.**Recognition, Remembrance, and Reflection: The Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee and Macon County, AL
Low Resolution VideoPersonal Reflections
Low Resolution VideoIcon of a computer monitor with a play symbol on its screen**WEBCAST**On **Nov. 30 at 1:00 p.m. ET**, you can stream this important presentation from here.
Streaming will begin five minutes before the webcast begins.https://www.ustream.tv/channel/QyXBRzYjVCS
Stream the Webcast**ePROGRAM**United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male at Tuskegee and Macon County, Alabama, 1932 -1972
Download NowFEATURED SPEAKERS**Xavier Becerra**
United States Secretary, Health and Human Services
**Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH**
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
**Debra Houry, MD, MPH**
Acting Principal Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
**Robin D. Bailey Jr., MA**
Chief Operating Officer, CDC
**Termika Smith, Ed.D, MPA**
Associate Director for Policy, Communications, and Strategy, Division of Adolescent and School Health, CDCMODERATORS**Susan K. Laird, DNP, MSN**
Training and Health Education Lead, Division of Communication Science and Services, CDC
**Jo Valentine, MSW**
Associate Director, Office of Health Equity, Division of STD Prevention, CDC
**Paul Rashad Young, MD**
Commander, U.S. Public Health Service and Regional Associate Director, The Americas and Kenya, Division of Global HIV & TB, Center for Global Health, CDCDISCUSSANTS**James A. Curran, MD, MPH**
Dean Emeritus, Emory Rollins School of Public Health
**Daniel E. Dawes, JD**
Executive Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine
**Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD**
University Professor of Medical Humanities, Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, and American Studies at the George Washington University.
**Fred Gray, Esq.**
President, Tuskegee Human & Civil Rights Multicultural Center
**Lillie Tyson Head, MS, EdS**
President, Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation
**Jean Heller**
Author, Journalist
**Robert Benjamin Johnson**
Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison
**James H. Jones, PhD**
Author, *Bad Blood*
**Chris Koller**
President, Milbank Memorial Fund
**Paul Lombardo, PhD, JD**
Regents’ Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
**Mary Leinhos, PhD**
Acting Team Lead, Public Health Ethics and Strategy Unit, Office of Scientific Integrity, CDC
**Ted Pestorius, MPA**
Deputy Director of Management and Overseas Operations, Center for Global Health, CDC
**Susan Reverby, PhD**
Author; Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
**Diane Rowley, MD, MPH**
Professor Emerita, Maternal and Child Health Department, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
**David Satcher, MD, PhD**
Founding Director and Senior Advisor, Satcher Health Leadership Institute; Former Director, CDC
**Dixie E. Snider Jr., MD, MPH**
Former Chief Science Officer, Office of the Director, CDC
**Rueben C. Warren, DDS, MPH, DrPH, MDiv**
Professor/Director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL
							
					
							Last Reviewed:  January 27, 2023						Source: 	Office of Science
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