Call for Abstracts Healthy Lives – Healthy Communities: Building Health Equity in Missouri One Community at a Time Friday, April 27, 2012 Garden Conference Center at Hilton Garden Inn Columbia, Missouri The poster session is targeted toward high school, undergraduate and graduate students conducting basic, clinical, translational, and communitybased participatory research related to understanding and [...]
The Building Health Equity in Kansas City meeting took place on December 7, 2011 at the Kauffman Conference Center in Kansas City. Around 90 health care stakeholders from the Kansas City area participated in discussions about health care disparities experienced by individuals who are newcomers to the region (immigrants and refugees), who have underlying mental [...]
MOHEC has just announced a new community meeting for the Kansas City region. Join MOHEC on December 7th for “Building Health Equity in the Kansas City Region,” at the Kauffman Conference Center in Kansas City. Sharing the results from its 2011 research project with newcomer populations, the MOHEC team and featured speakers will share and [...]
Want to know what Missouri is doing on the ground to promote health equity? So do we! Please take our short, informal survey to help us learn about the programs, policies and people who are working to make good health available to all. Results will be shared with MOHEC partners and members. Take the survey
The Missouri Health Equity Collaborative ( MOHEC) EHR working group is devoted to examining how we should and could be using current and emerging data to identify and target specific health disparities in Missouri. This group will also be charged with proactively planning how to educate consumers on their right to have a copy of [...]
From RWJF: On April 26th the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will host a free webinar on the effects that income, education and race have on health. The webinar will address such questions as: How do income and wealth influence health beyond the ability to afford health care? How do experiences based on a person’s race [...]
LIVE WEBINAR: The Kaiser Family Foundation’s next live, interactive webcast in its Today’s Topics in Health Disparities series on Monday, April 25, at 1 p.m. ET will examine the new Department of Health and Human Services’ Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. The program will address the contents of the strategy and [...]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health on Friday, April 8, 2011 will unveil its roadmap for reducing health and health care disparities, a comprehensive effort to address differences in health for racial, ethnic, and other underserved communities. The HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities and the [...]
From UNC Chapel Hill: The 32nd Annual Minority Health Conference and broadcast of the 13th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture Dr. Bonnie M. Duran, associate professor at the University of Washington and Director of the Center for Indigenous Health Research, will give the 13th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture at the [...]
Couldn’t make it to yesterday’s event? Download the presentations from Debbie Chase, Susan Garrett and Karen Edison. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health & Health Care: Kansas City Regional Data Debbie Chase, MPA Smoking among Latino Immigrants: Developing Solutions Susan Garrett Project Director, Preventive Medicine & Public Health KU Medical Center Missouri Health Equity Collaborative [...]
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