Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., former Secetary of Health and Human Services (1989-1993), and President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine and Vivian W. Pinn, MD., the first full-time Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the former Chair of Pathology at HUCM spoke about the need to advance diversity in the science and health professions, as well as resources available on blacks in science and health professions.