MEDIA ADVISORY

The first Virginia Minority Health Conference will be held in Charlottesville 
from Sunday, June 23 through Tuesday, June 25 at the Omni Hotel.  This is the 
first statewide conference to address the health concerns of Blacks, 
Hispanics, Native Americans and Asian/Pacific Islanders in Virginia.  
The conference is sponsored by the University of Virginia Health Sciences 
Center and the Virginia Office of Minority Health.

Featured speakers include:

*  Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, president of Morehouse School of Medicine and 
former secretary of health and human services under the Bush administration

*  Dr. Vivian W. Pinn, director of the Office of Research on Women's Health 
at the National Institutes of Health

*  Dr. Randolph L. Gordon, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health

*  Mr. Clay Simpson Jr., Ph.D., deputy assistant secretary of minority health, 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Although the conference fee is $100, Sunday afternoon's keynote address from 
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. is free and open to the public.

Reporters are invited to attend all or part of the conference.  Please 
contact Marguerite Beck or Katherine Jackson at 804-924-5679 if you plan to 
attend the conference or if you need assistance in setting up an interview 
with one of the speakers.
(Conference schedule is attached)

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                                                       June 10, 1996