The Minority Health Project was created in 1994 by three faculty members in the school of public health: Trude Bennett, Dorothy Browne, and Lloyd Edwards with a grant from the National Center for Health Statistics. I inherited the project in 1998-1999. Since that time the Project has worked closely with the Annual Minority Health Conference, particularly hosting its website for many years, helping to organize the keynote broadcast, and assisting with promotion. But the two activities are distinct organizationally and programmatically.
The history of the Minority Health Project can be found at http://cf.unc.edu/minority/about/ Its major activity, since 1995, is an annual workshop/broadcasts that has gone under several different names. The history of this event is presented at http://cf.unc.edu/minority/institute/about.htm The list of institutes/broadcasts to date is at http://cf.unc.edu/minority/institute/ That page includes links to the historical webpages from the original events. A catalog listing most of the individual presentations from this series can be found at http://cf.unc.edu/minority/resources/catalog/ though it begins after 1995 and has not been brought completely up to date. There is also an XML file that corresponds to the catalog and lists the available media for most of the presentations 1996-2010. A decision should be made in the near term if these media are important to preserve and how to do so.
I have videotapes of various vintages (VHS, SVHS, DV-CAM) dating back for many years. The more recent ones are also available on DVD, and I have given copies to the Health Sciences Library. However, my copies of some of the earlier DVDs have gone bad, and I don't know whether the Library's copies are still good. So decisions need to be made about this collection of tapes and DVDs and arrangements made for preserving or disposing.
I also have numerous documents on paper and electronic files including grant proposals, agendas, speaker permissions, participant lists, etc.
This collection is probably the second most significant one that I have.
Note: the historical Minority Health Project website, cf.unc.edu/minority/ which has more commonly been accessed at www.minority.unc.edu, will at some point be discontinued, so preservation of its contents needs to be considered. A newer version of the site has been created on the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Wordpress site, but it is not complete with respect to archival materials.