Photo Op: UAB MHRC Kicking Off Walk Program With Birmingham Park and Rec

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) will host a luncheon for the City of Birmingham Parks and Recreation Board community center directors and staff to kick-off the MHRC WALK Feel Alive program in each of the 18 community recreation centers throughout Birmingham.

January 26, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) will host a luncheon for the City of Birmingham Parks and Recreation Board community center directors and staff to kick-off the MHRC WALK Feel Alive program in each of the 18 community recreation centers throughout Birmingham. 

The event will be on Wednesday, January 27 at 12 p.m. at Legion Field, 400 Graymont Ave.

Beginning in February, any city resident will be able to go to their closest local recreation center and learn about joining a WALK team for fun and health. Each center will have 30 complimentary WALK kits including a T-shirt, step-counter (pedometer), sports bottle, step-tracking tools and health literature. The WALK Feel Alive program was launched by the UAB MHRC in 2005 as a community outreach program to provide health tools to reduce health disparities in minority communities. Currently there are more than 2900 people participating in more than 400 WALK Feel Alive teams throughout Alabama and Mississippi.