Past Training and Events Archive -
2007 and Earlier

• Latino Legislative Forum on Health Disparities
  December 7-9, 2007
  NALEO hosted the Latino Legislative Forum on Health Disparities from December 7-9, 2007. This forum took place at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Forum workshops addressed the following topics: an overview of Latino health; federal legislation and the impact on states to address health disparities for vulnerable populations; state initiatives to expand health coverage; and legislative health leadership to address health disparities, wellness, and chronic disease. For more information on this forum, please contact Jose Carrillo at jcarrillo@naleo.org. 

• Health Disparities and Policy Implications: Examining the Mental Health Needs of Incarcerated African Americans
  November 10, 2007
  Incarceration rates are among the highest for African Americans in Iowa. The National Health Policy Training Alliance for Communities of Color sponsored a health panel focusing on the link between mental health disparities and incarceration of African Americans. This health panel was held in conjunction with the Ongoing Covenant with Black Iowa (OCBI) Summit that took place in Waterloo, Iowa on November 10, 2007. Click here to read an article on the summit from the "Iowa Independent" newspaper. For more information on the summit, please contact Briana Webster-Patterson at info@healthpolicyalliance.org.  

• Screening of "Unnatural Causes" at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
  November 6, 2007
  On November 6, 2007, The Health Policy Alliance hosted a screening of Unnatural Causes along with a panel discussion. The APHA Annual Meeting took place at the Washington Convention Center from November 3-7, 2007. For more information on the documentary screening and panel discussion, please contact Carla Gullat at cgullat@jointcenter.org. 

• Journalists' Conference Call with Madeline Drexler
  October 26, 2007
  The Alliance hosted a conference call for journalists with Madeline Drexler, Joint Center Fair Health Fellow. This conference call focused on Ms. Drexler's experience covering health disparities, offered tips and tools for other journalists who cover this beat, and also discussed her past and current projects, including her Boston Globe article, How Racism Hurts-Literally. A replay of the call is now available online. RealPlayer (RealPlayer 8 or later) | Windows Media (Windows Media Player 9 or later)

• Conference Call to Discuss Pay-for-Performance in Communities of Color
  October 23, 2007
  Families USA hosted a conference call on Tuesday, October 23rd. Robin Weinick, Ph.D, Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital discussed a new report that lays out policy recommendations for implementing a P4P program in Massachusetts designed specifically to reduce racial disparities and Byron Sogie-Thomas, a policy analyst for the National Medical Association (NMA), discussed the NMA's perspective on how pay-for-performance will affect African-American physicians and the communities they serve. RealPlayer | Windows Media

• Collaboration of Health Professionals at the Point of Practice
  August 4-9, 2007
  NMA hosted their 2007 annual convention and scientific assembly, Collaboration of Health Professionals at the Point of Practice: Emphasizing the Collaborate Roles of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists, and Physician Assistants, in Honolulu, HI. 

• NALEO's 24th Annual Conference
  June 28-20, 2007
  NALEO hosted their 24th annual conference at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. Targeting elected and appointed officials, corporate representatives, members of academia and philanthropy, community leaders, and students, NALEO will host a health track focusing on the following health topics: mental health, obesity and chronic disease, health care access and insurance. 

• Healthy Communities Initiative Policy Institute
  April 27-29, 2007
  NALEO hosted Healthy Communities Initiative Policy Institute in Seattle, Washington. This Policy Institute will serve as an intensive leadership development event designed to enhance the capacity for policymaking, practices and investments of 35-45 Latino elected and appointed officials to improve the quality of life for residents in their jurisdiction, and to address the issue of childhood obesity. 

• Health Policy Journalism Institute: Covering Health Disparities
  April 26-27, 2007
  The Alliance hosted a health policy journalism institute in Atlanta, GA. This training was designed to bring attention to health policy issues that affect racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. and to ensure that journalists have the tools, resources, and information they need to report on these topics. Sessions offered at this institute included:
  • An Overview of Disparities 
  • Overview of the Health Care Policy Beat
  • Hot Topics in Health Care: Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and the Uninsured
  • Tips and Tools for Health Care Journalism
  • Finding Reliable Sources

  • Roundtable Discussion: The Challenges and Opportunities of Covering Health Care Policy & Health Disparities Issues 

• Town Hall Meeting
  April 3, 2007
  The NMA and the W. Montague Cobb Institute hosted a Town hall meeting on Pay-for-Performance for their members in Houston, TX. 

• The Quality Movement and Its Impact on Healthcare Disparities
  March 24-27, 2007
  The NMA hosted their 8th annual National Colloquium on African American Health. This year’s colloquium, The Quality Movement and Its Impact on Healthcare Disparities, explored issues around the National Health Disparities Report, pay-for-performance, smoking cessation, and other topics. The colloquium took place at the Westin Arlington in Arlington, VA.

• Town Hall Meeting
  March 17, 2007
  The NMA and the W. Montague Cobb Institute hosted a Town hall meeting on Pay-for-Performance for their members in St. Louis, MO. 

• Alliance Partners One-Day Meeting
  March 9, 2007
  The Alliance Partners hosted a one-day meeting in Washington, DC. This discussion, Universal and Equal: Ensuring Health Equity in Health Reform, outlined what states are doing to expand coverage, describe disparities-related provisions in state proposals, discuss policies and practices that reduce racial and ethnic health disparities, and set the context for developing a framework to ensure health equity in state health care reform. Click here for the agenda.

• Forum
  February 20, 2007
  The Joint Center Health Policy Institute and the University of Michigan co-hosted a forum to discuss solutions for racially- and ethnically-linked disparities in pregnancy outcome. The event was held in Washington, DC.

• Health Action 2007
  January 24-26, 2007
  Families USA hosted the first annual Minority Health track at Health Action 2007. The purpose of the track was to bring together minority health advocates from across the country to discuss activities at the national, state, and local level to address racial and ethnic health disparities; meet advocates from around the country engaged in this work; and reconnect with colleagues in the field. The track included sessions on: advancing the health disparities agenda and building a movement, state activities to improve minority health and reduce disparities, incorporating policy and legislative advocacy into health disparities work, dispelling myths surrounding immigrants and reframing the issue of immigrant health, and policies and practices related to cultural competence and language access. Click here for the full Health Action 2007 agenda, webcast, and materials from many of the plenaries and workshops.

• Town Hall Meeting
  January 13, 2007
  The NMA and W. Montague Cobb Institute co-hosted a Town hall meeting in Sarasota, FL on Pay-4-Performance. 

• Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Latino Community
  December 8-10, 2006
  NALEO hosted a California Statewide Summit on Obesity entitled Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Latino Community. The event was held in Los Angeles, California. 

• Town Hall Meeting
  November 18, 2006
  The NMA and W. Montague Cobb Institute co-hosted a Town hall meeting in Mississippi on Pay-4-Performance.
   
• Biennial National Institute
  November 16, 2006
  NALEO hosted their 6th Biennial National Institute for newly elected Latino officials in Washington, D.C. They held a panel discussion focusing on health care issues. 

• Panel Discussion and Press Briefing: Dellums Commission's Final Report
  November 15, 2006
  The Joint Center Health Policy Institute hosted a panel discussion and press briefing to release the Dellums Commission's final report with recommendations. The commission's report is a two-year study that focuses on policies at the federal, state, and local levels that limit the life options of young men of color. 

• Health Policy Training for Religious Leaders 
  November 2, 2006
  On November 2, 2006, Families USA hosted a health policy training in Des Moines, IA for religious leaders. The training focused on faith leaders’ roles in promoting advocacy around health policies and reducing disparities in their local congregations and communities. Sessions offered at this training included:
  • An Overview of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
  • Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Iowa
  • Tools and Strategies for Health Care Organizing
  • Case Studies of Successful Health Advocacy
  • Developing Action Strategies for Your Community
  • Faith Leader Observations 

• Presidential Task Force on Pay-for-Performance
  July 21, 2006
  Chaired by the National Medical Association’s Immediate Past President, Sandra L. Gadson, M.D., the NMA hosted its inaugural meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Pay-for-Performance (P4P). This Task Force is divided into 3 groups with the following responsibilities:
  • Creating a white paper on P4P. This paper has already been drafted and submitted in response to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Call for Papers. Click here to read the NMA position paper on Pay-4-Performance.
  • Producing a Demonstration Project on P4P
  • Carrying out advocacy and outreach through town hall meetings and other types of advocacy, including influencing the legislative process 

• NALEO’s 23rd Annual Conference  
  June 22-24, 2006
  On June 22-24, 2006, NALEO offered a “track” at their annual conference for participants interested in the Alliance’s work. The track consisted of an overview of health disparities issues; a discussion of the role public health programs play in minority communities; and how disparities and access to public programs affect the treatment of obesity and chronic disease within communities of color. 

• Dismantling Health Disparities through Awareness, Leadership, and Action
  May 18-19, 2006
  The Joint Center hosted a training on May 18-19, 2006, in Atlanta, Georgia. This training was designed to identify the root causes of health disparities and to engage community leaders in the struggle to eliminate those causes. Click here for the agenda. 

• Public Programs and Minorities
  May 10-11, 2006 
  The Alliance, in conjunction with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, hosted a day-and-a-half long training for journalists. This training was designed to bring attention to health policy issues that affect Latinos in the U.S. and to ensure that journalists have the tools, resources, and information they need to report on these topics. The training took place on Wednesday, May 10, 2006, and Thursday, May 11, 2006, at The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities in Los Angeles, California. 

• National Colloquium on African American Health
  March 11-14, 2006 
  On March 11-14, 2006, the NMA hosted a colloquium on African American health in Fairfax, Virginia that brought together more than 100 physicians and other community leaders. The colloquium focused on how physicians can be involved in policy advocacy around health disparities issues. 

• California Statewide Summit on Latino Health
  January 26-29, 2006  
  On January 26-29, 2006, NALEO hosted the California Summit on Latino Health in Sacramento, California. The summit enabled participants to collaboratively develop strategies and solutions for health-related issues affecting Latinos in California. Additionally, the summit served as the launch event of NALEO’s California Health Leadership Program, an intensive technical assistance program for Latino elected officials targeting the problem of obesity in California. Approximately 40 elected officials from across the state attended the summit. 

• Making Public Programs Work for Communities of Color  
  January 25, 2006
  On January 25, 2006, Families USA hosted a training for community leaders in Washington, D.C. that brought together more than 50 diverse leaders representing the faith community, organized labor, state and local advocacy groups, and health care providers to discuss the role of Medicaid and Medicare in improving access to care and, ultimately, reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. The training also discussed how community leaders can ensure that the interests of their communities—who are often among those most affected by changes in policy—are taken into account by connecting them to strategies, tools, and resources designed to empower community leaders to take action in their own communities’ policymaking process. In addition, the training provided opportunities for leaders from across the country to network with one another and share strategies for reducing disparities. Sessions offered at the training included:
  • Framing the Issues: An Overview of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities;
  • The Role of Coverage in Reducing Health Disparities;
  • The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP in Minority Communities;
  • The Role of Medicare in Minority Communities; and
  • Developing Action Strategies for Your Community. 

• National Latino Legislative Summit: State of Diabetes in America  
  November 18-20, 2005
  On November 18-20, 2005, NALEO hosted a summit in Miami, Florida on diabetes in the Latino community entitled "National Latino Legislative Summit: State of Diabetes in America." The summit discussed the prevalence of diabetes among Latinos and how policy developed at the state and national levels can reduce disparities in diabetes-related care. The summit also educated participants about different strategies legislators can employ to reduce these disparities and improve outcomes. Sessions offered at the summit included:
  • The State of Diabetes in the Latino Community; 
  • Diabetes and Disparities in the Latino Community;
  • Diabetes Policy: Challenges and Opportunities; 
  • Promising Practices and Programs for a Healthy Community; and
  • Getting the Message Out: Policy, Prevention and Treatment.