Minority Health Disparities Initiative

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 The Lodge at Wilderness Ridge

Spring 2013 Retreat

8:30am - 9:00am

9:00am - 9:15am

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCETuesday, May 14th, 2013

The Lodge at Wilderness Ridge

Registration Continental Breakfast provided

Welcome, Update on Mis-sion and Goals

Regina Werum, Professor of Sociology and Associate Vice Chancel-lor for Research, and Rick Bevins, Psychology department chair

Research Data Center (RDC)

Peter Meyer (National Center for Health Statistics) will discuss data available through Research Data Centers

Bullet Sessions UNL speakers will showcase their minority health disparities related work

Community Partnership Pong (15 minute sessions)

UNL researchers can learn more about local and state community agencies (Nebraska Office of Health Disparities and Health Equity, UNL Extension, Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, El Centro de las Americas, Center for Rural Affairs, Lincoln Medical Educa-tion Partnership, Health Literacy, and more)

9:15am - 10:00am

10:00am - 11:00am

11:00am - 12:00pm

12:00pm - 12:30pm Lunch

12:30pm - 1:30pmKeynote Speaker - Dr. Susan Shaw - University of Arizona “Addressing minority health access through community -based health literacy re-search”

Susan J. Shaw is a medical anthropologist specializing in health disparities and access to health care in the U.S. She was recently principal investigator of an NCI-funded study of culture and health literacy among minority patients with chronic illness. She is author of the book Governing How We Care as well as numerous articles in public health and anthropology journals.

1:30pm - 2:15pmBreakout Session Potential minority health disparity project topic areas will be dis-

cussed in a small group format.

2:15pm - 2:30pmWrap-up Collaborative discussion tying minority health disparity topics to

funding opportunities

8:30am - 9:00am

9:00am - 9:15am

9:15am - 10:00am

PROGRAM AGENDA

Registration

Welcome, Update on Mission and Goals

Continental Breakfast Provided

Regina Werum – Professor of Sociology and Associate Vice Chancellor for ResearchRick Bevins – Psychology department chair and Director of Minority Health Disparities Initiative

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Peter Meyer is the Director of the Research Data Center and the Assistant Director of the Office of Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previous to those appointments, he served in other positions at NCHS, on faculty at the University of Maryland’s Center on Aging and Laboratory for Public Health In-formatics. Before coming to Public Health, Mr. Meyer worked in the intelligence community for more than a decade at the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army.

His graduate training is in Public Health and Economics, and his experience is widely varied. Several projects that he has worked on include survey methodology, geospatial statistics, health care policy, statistical literacy and education, and development of socio-economic measures for surveys.

As a Public Health Analyst, he was involved in the production of public-use data from the Na-tional Health Interview Survey, researching health and health care policy issues, and supporting his division’s senior management. Mr. Meyer thinks the best part of his job is working on a wide range of health, policy and scientific issues.

Research Data Center (RDC)

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10:00am - 11:00am Bullet Sessions

Trish Wonch-Hill – Research Assistant Professor, Department of SociologyBrandy Clarke – Research Assistant Professor, Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and SchoolsCynthia Willis Esqueda – Associate Professor, Department of PsychologyJordan Soliz – Associate Professor, Department of CommunicationTim Nelson – Assistant Professor, Department of PsychologyGeorgia Jones – Associate Professor, Nutrition and Health SciencesDavid Warner – Assistant Professor, Department of SociologyLisa Crockett – Professor, Department of Psychology

11:00am - 12:00pm Community Partnership Pong (15 minute sessions)

Lincoln Medical Education Partnership (LMEP)Kelly Madcharo

Lincoln Medical Education Partnership opened more than 30 years ago to train family medicine physicians. We have evolved into a multi-dimensional organization offering a variety of healthcare programs and services. The School Community Intervention and Prevention (SCIP) program works with schools throughout Nebraska by providing tools, resources and trainings to address behavioral health issues that impact children, adolescents and their families. Stepping Stones for Families improves the health and well-being of families who are having trouble dealing with difficult life situations or meeting basic needs due to economic, medical, behavioral health or educational fac-tors. SSF offers outpatient counseling and evaluations for those struggling with sub-stance use. The Nebraska Cancer Research Center (NCRC) provides local access to cutting edge cancer research in partnership with the Lincoln oncologists and hospitals. NCRC is a member of the MVCC Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP), created by the National Cancer Institute to bring cutting edge clinical research to com-munities.

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El Centro de las AmericasRoy Rivera

We believe that having a medical home is not a privilege, it’s a necessity. We encourage cli-ents to improve their quality of life by obtaining regular dental and medical checkups. Our outreach programs help educate our community about the importance of a healthy diet and exercise. El Centro serves as a liaison for the H/L community and several health organizations (e.g., People’s Health Center and Clinic with a Heart). We want our clients to know that they can receive medical services, even if they don’t have insurance.

UNL ExtensionJeff Hart

UNL Extension provides more than just information or knowledge. The goal of extension is to help Nebraskans transform knowledge into “know how, know now” — having confidence, skill and understanding to make better decisions about their businesses, their communities, their families and their personal lives. UNL Extension provides research based, educational programming for Children, Youth & Families – Food, Nutrition and Health – as well as agri-culturally based programs. Cooperative funding ensures local relevance and impact. Fund-ing for extension is shared by Nebraska counties, state government, federal programs and grants, and private entities. Extension works closely with rural & urban County Extension Boards, local businesses & organization to ensure that local-level needs are being addressed to improve lifelong learning for all people in the community.

Health Literacy & Nebraska Association for Local Health Departments (NAHLD)Sue Bockrath

Health Literacy Nebraska (HLNE) is a consortium of health care and public health profes-sionals dedicated to improving and promoting health literacy in Nebraska. The group’s mis-sion is to connect and coordinate health literacy projects and expertise across the state. Cur-rent projects focus on 1) adding a health literacy item to the State’s BRFSS survey, 2) training and educating health care and public health professionals to better address health literacy, and 3) developing consumers’ abilities to be active participants in their health care.Nebraska Association of Local Health Directors (NALHD) Outreach Partnership to Improve Health Literacy is providing health literacy training, resources, and technical assistance to local and tribal health departments serving 84 counties. The partnership’s focus areas include 1) supporting health literate writing, 2) applying health literacy in language access efforts, 3) collaborating between departments, and 4) implementing health literate practice across the Public Health System.

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DHHS Health Disparities & Health EquityJosie Rodriguez

OMH programs address disease prevention, health promotion, risk reduction, health-ier lifestyle choices, use of health care services, and barriers to health care. The Office also: 1. Promotes the collection of health data by racial, ethnic, and primary language categories and strengthening the infrastructures for data collection and sharing; 2. works to increase awareness of the major health problems of racial and ethnic mi-norities and factors that influence health; 3. establishes and strengthens networks, coalitions, and partnerships to identify and solve health problems; 4. develops and promotes policies, programs, and practices to eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity; 5. fosters research, demonstrations, scientific investigations; and evalu-ations aimed at improving health; 6. funds demonstration programs that can inform health policy and the effectiveness of strategies for improving health.

Asian Community & Cultural CenterJoshua Snowden

The Asian Center provides health assistance to clients who are low income and have no kind of health insurance to be able to access health care services and have a medical home. The Asian Community and Cultural Center also has a youth leadership pro-gram, provides citizenship and English classes, as well as provides advocacy for Suda-nese Refugees.

Center for Rural AffairsKathie Starkweather

The Center for Rural Affairs supports local farmers, new business owners and rural communities. Their work in rural health is to promote policy that makes health insur-ance affordable for small businesses, entrepreneurs and family farmers and ranchers and to ensure policy supports small town doctors, clinics and hospitals.

12:00pm - 12:30pm Lunch

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12:30pm - 1:30pm Keynote Speaker – Dr. Susan Shaw

“Addressing minority health access through community-based health literacy research”

Susan J. Shaw is a medical anthropologist specializing in ethnicity, health disparities, social movements, and the political economy of health in the United States. Her book manuscript in progress deals with community health and governance in the U.S., presenting a collection of case studies of local struggles over the meaning of differ-ence and access to health care in urban, ethnic and marginalized populations. Recent publications include an examination of researchers’ role in the production and dissem-ination of harm reduction norms and practices among injection drug users. She has analyzed the construction of ethnic and cultural difference in culturally appropriate health care programs for primary care clinics and other settings. Dr. Shaw is currently principal investigator of a four-year, NIH-funded study of cultural differences, health literacy, and chronic disease management among four ethnic groups in the northeast-ern U.S.

1:30pm - 2:15pm Breakout Session

Obesity/Diabetes/Chronic DiseasesMaternal Child HealthMental/Behavioral HealthRural/TelehealthTrust/Distrust and Minority HealthViolence/Drug and Alcohol AbuseHealth and Learning

2:15pm - 2:30pm Wrap-Up