Objective: Students will understand Dr. Satcher’s use of his role as Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health to advance the cause of reduction of health disparities. 

Justification: Dr. Satcher was a highly-influential, high-level civil servant who has consistently criticized health disparities and their underlying socioeconomic causes and used his position to bring these issues to a head.

 •Outline Dr. Satcher’s understanding of health disparities and their causes – where does he believe they come from?

•How did Dr. Satcher use his role as Surgeon General to bring health disparities to the forefront of the nation’s conscience?