dr. graham, i can listen to you all day. >> i'm sorry. [laughter] >> so, if you don't mind, we can follow up in the q&a. >> i'm sorry. >> thank you. dr. pamies. >> thank you. first i want to thank you for holding this very important event as we can see, you've shone a very bright light on this topic of health disparities. i think it's appropriate to quote martin luther king when he said of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking. my name is rubens paismies, i'm a physician and researcher who has tried to understand and find a solution to health disparities. i think i need to discuss very briefly nine different areas that i think contributes to or explained the dilemma we now face. first, understanding the diversity. it's important to look at diversity in america. over the past 20 years the proportion of white americans has dpe creased from 83 percent in 1970 to 69 percent now in 2000. during that same period, african-americans have increased slightly from 11 to 12 percent, however, the proportion of hispa

dr. graham. as far as data collection, you mentioned for the native american population, one of the issues we always had was the census and there were tremendous problems with the statistics, especially in 1990. as far as the population of native americans, in that sense this, what do you think, how does that skew the statistics we have, not just native americans, but i am really interested in statistics. >> the other issues, i am here today, instrumental in key issues on data collection. aside from the census bureau, one of the major challenges was the tools that we used to collect data on health statistics. the department of health and human services, state organizations and other agencies, the health status of our country. many times we miss important sub sectors such as the native american population as well as the native hawaiian and other populations. what that spells out, the data points, instead of actual statistics on those specific populations. we are taking that issue very seriously fr

dr. garth graham, who is the deputy assistant secretary for minority help in the office of minority health at the department of health and human services which coordinates federal health policies that address minority health concerns and assure that federal, state, local health programs taken to an account the needs of disadvantaged racial and ethnic populations. he founded the boston in cardiovascular health project, designed to help develop -- then we have the doctor who has served as vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of internal medicine at university of nebraska medical center since september 2003. he was recently selected as a new member and chair of the advisor committee on minority held for the board of health and human services' office of minority health. 2005 he collaborated with the surgeon general to author and editor one of the first textbooks addressing inequalities and health care. next we have a psychiatrist at the oasis drug treatment clinic here in washington d.c.. she lectures at yale university school of medicine, a resident scholar at the american enter

dr. brzezinski said, the neocons first response -- people who think that any war is a good war -- senator graham obviously is a neocon and he said we do not want our neocons conflicting with theirs. this is a man that won the nobel peace -- peace prize. i think he knows what he is talking about and i agree with him completely and with the people, that they do need our help, they need help from the u.n. i have not seen anyone picketing the president. i have not seen anyone asking the president to help. they want help from us, as in support, for example, people can reset the times on their computers or on twitter to tehran time, that helps. host: how does that help? caller: being able to find people. i did not have as much computer expertise. i'm a recent twitter user. i have a little troublesome * -- sometimes. i used to be a computer geek, the ninth 52 years old. not that i'm against new technology but i am a little slow on the uptake on this one. host: @ thank you for updating all of us. anna from washington, d.c. come on independent line. caller: i think the cia is doing what it knows how to d