Tuskegee University’s will host a birthday observance for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 22.
Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will be the guest speaker. He is also the founding dean and former president of The School of Medicine at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Sullivan is chairman of the board of the National Health Museum in Atlanta, whose goal is to improve the health of Americans by enhancing health literacy and advancing healthy behaviors. He also is chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based Sullivan Alliance to Transform America’s Health Professions. He served as chair of the President’s Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from 2002-2009, and was co-chair of the President’s Commission on HIV and AIDS from 2001-2006.
The event will be held at 11 a.m. at the Tuskegee University Chapel.
