Heath Equity Events

Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies: Conference. National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education. May 28 - June 1, 2013 in New Orleans, LA. Learn More

Arizona Public Health Association: Spring Conference. Moving Arizona Communities Toward Health Equity. April 24, 2013 in Phoenix, AZ. Learn More

2012 Virginia Rural Health Action Conference

"You might be rural if." It sounds like the set-up for a joke that's likely to elicit a few groans. But the public health issues facing rural Virginia are no joke. The 2012 Virginia Health Equity Report estimates that the total costs of health disparities/inequities associated with living in a rural area instead of an urban area in Virginia cost $692 million annually.

Rural Virginians tend to die at an earlier age than non-rural residents. Some areas have an average life span up to 19 years below the state average, 59.6 years compared to 78.5 years. Rural areas also tend to have higher poverty rates and lower educational levels than urban Virginia, correlating to having limited health opportunities.

With these facts in mind, the Virginia Public Health Association and the Virginia Rural Health Association are joining together to offer the 2012 Virginia Rural Health Action Conference on October 8 and 9 at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel. Public health practitioners, concerned citizens, planners, policy makers, advocates and anyone with an interest in the health of rural Virginia will come together to explore the wide-variety of issues having an impact on the public health of rural Virginians and work to develop creative cross-sector solutions that can be incorporated into an updated State Rural Health Plan.

We want participation from everyone with a stake in the health of rural Virginia. Your input in the Virginia Rural Health Action Conference is highly valued and will help identify the priority items for the new Rural Health Plan.

Advance registration is required.

Registration fees are $160 for VAPHA and VRHA members, $210 for

Nonmembers, and $90 for Students. Fees will increase after September

28th. Fees support program costs and administration.

Click below for more information:

http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/healthpolicy/Documents/SponsorshipandExhibit%20Opportunities.pdf  
http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/healthpolicy/Documents/brochure_distributed_0001.pdf  

For complete details, visit the VAPHA web site at www.vapha.org.

Youth Health Festival!

Attend the Youth Health Festival!Saturday, April 21, 2012 -
Health Equity Day of Action

WHAT: Youth Health Festival: Young. Healthy. YOUnited!
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 2012, 12 noon to 4 pm
WHERE: Columbia Heights Educational Campus, 3101 16th Street, NW,
Washington, D.C. 20010 **FREE PARKING *** Learn more

Health & Equity For All

GIH's 2012 annual meeting theme Health and Equity for All reflects Healthy People 2020's vision of good health for Americans across the life course, and attendees will examine and discuss philanthropy's role in moving the nation's health agenda forward. Read on for more details and meeting highlights.

This meeting is open only to staff and trustees of grantmaking organizations and corporate giving programs.**

March 7 - 9, 2012 REGISTER NOW!

SHIRE Building Community Engagement Conference

Building Community Engagement in Underserved Neighborhoods
The Path to Health Empowerment

Kellogg Conference Hotel at Gallaudet University
Washington, DC

November 17-18, 2011

Registration form attached or log onto www.shireinc.org

Health Equity Conference
Advancing the Public Health through Community Engagement and Communication
September 23-23,2011
Greater Richmond Convention Center

Join us for a conference that will feature nationally renowed speakers with presentations that willa ddress relevant issues facing underserved poopulations in Virginia, as well as national and global health disparities, how disparities are defined and measure, strategies for the reduction of disparities, and current policy and advocacy issues. Click here to register http://www.vapa.org/

2011Virginia Rural Health Summit - Save The Date!!

SAVE THE DATE!

2 011 Virginia Rural Health Summit
You don't want to miss this event! Virginia's fourth annual Summit that focuses on the progress of Virginia’s State Rural Health Plan (VA-RHP). The VA-RHP has been updated and was finalized in December 2008, after a two-year process of obtaining stakeholder input. The VA-RHP is a 3-5 year strategic plan designed to strengthen the health care infrastructure in rural areas. Come to see the progress we have made and provide your input! General information about the Summit can be found at the Virginia’s State Rural Health Plan website: http://www.va-srhp.org/2011-rural-health-summit.htm.


Summit information includes:
April 4-5: Virginia Telehealth Pre- Summit
What is the current status of the infrastructure and policies in Virginia? What does my organization need to know about funding and legal issues to implement programs? What is "meaningful use"? Get your answers here! Includes a presentation by Edward Brown M.D., CEO Ontario Telemedicine Network.
April 6: Virginia Rural Health Summit - Health Equity
Do the rural areas of Virginia get the same access and quality of health services as their urban peers? This event will examine what's different about rural Virginia and offer strategies and solutions for moving forward. Featuring the release of the Virginia Rural Health Equity Report and a panel discussion on the implications for rural Virginia.
April 7: Virginia Rural Health Summit - Health Policy
The past year has seen some major changes in the health policy landscape. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has many implications for the availability, delivery and quality of health and health services in the rural areas of Virginia. The event will highlight a panel discussion of representatives from the Virginia Health Reform Initiative Council. The panel will offer their perspectives on the recommendations developed by the Council, the implications for rural Virginia, and the future work of the Council.

Prevention Institute has launched Communities Taking Action

Profiles of Health Equity http://preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/communities-in-action-profiles-of-health-equity.html, an online database that highlights successful community efforts to increase health equity. The profiled communities promote racial and social justice through initiatives to prevent chronic disease, violence, and injury. The database includes 64 profiles in total, all plotted on an easy-to-browse google map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&source=embed&msa=0&msid=110686189629189089017.00048607df7316976662d&ll=40.979898,-97.207031&spn=39.578687,54.492188&z=4.

Together, the profiles demonstrate how strong leadership, community engagement and advocacy, and changes in local policies and institutional practices can lead to healthier, more equitable community environments. The Communities Taking Action Profiles http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/communities-in-action-profiles-of-health-equity.html provide strategies for community efforts to build health and equity. The profiles also provide media and policymakers with on-the-ground examples that illustrate effective cross-sector community prevention efforts.

Office of Minority Health & Public Health Policy To Conduct Health Equity Seminar

The Office of Minority Health and Public Health Policy will be conducting a half-day continuing education seminar on health equity on June 18 from 9 am to 1 pm at VCU. The VCU-sponsored seminar will provide an overview of the health equity framework, review and engage students in a discussion using the "Unnatural Causes" video, and provide an overview of cultural competency/humility and the community-based participatory approach to promoting health equity. Speakers for the seminar will be Dr. Michael Royster, Karen Reed and Susan Triggs. If you are interested in attending the seminar, get supervisory approval and then register on Train at https://va.train.org/DesktopShell.aspx.

You are invited to the Virginia Health Equity Conference

The Virginia Public Health Association and the Health Equity Conference Planning Committee cordially invite you and your members to attend the upcoming two-day Health Equity Conference, Advancing Health Equity: From Theory to Practice on September 10-11, 2009 at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center in Richmond, Virginia.

The conference will serve as a forum to discuss practices and policies that strengthen community health and well-being. Root, social, political and economic causes of health inequities in Virginia will be addressed. The goal of the conference is to increase the knowledge and ability of attendees to advance health equity through policies and practices that promote healthy communities.

Nationally renowned conference speakers include:

• Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California, San Francisco
• Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH, DrPH, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
• James H. Johnson Jr., Ph.D., Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center, University of North Carolina School of Business
• Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, Ph.D., Research Director on Social Determinants of Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC and featured in the award-winning PBS series documentary, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
• Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, MA, Director of the Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness and featured in the award-winning PBS series documentary, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
• Stephen H. Woolf, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Visit the website to learn about and register for this conference. We look forward to your participation.

Register now to take advantage of our early bird registration discount rates.

Download our conference flyer to spread the word about the Health Equity Conference to your colleagues, partners and networks.