9th Annual Maternal and Child Health Summer Institute
Addressing Health Disparities: Culture, Communications and Health

July 24-25, 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The goal of the Summer Institutes is to provide educational opportunities that are relevant, informative, and useful to public health practitioners about addressing health and social disparities affecting women, children, families, and communities.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

(Note: PowerPoint presentations or other materials may not be available for each speaker.)

Keynote: Culture and Literacy: "Communities, Cats and Words: The CLEAN LOOK" Cathy Meade, PhD, RN, FAAN

"Health, Culture, and Literacy from a Local Perspective: The Effect of Non-Response Bias on Estimates of Poor Health Literacy" Joan Griffin View PowerPoint

"Health Literacy: Helping Patients Understand" Alisha Ellwood
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"Culture, Community, and Health Among People of European Descent in the US" Janice Barbee

Keynote: "Beyond Access: Communication Inequality and its Implications for Health Disparities" Kasisomayajula Viswanath, PhD
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Concurrent Sessions

"Community Story Telling to Understand and Improve Health in an Urban Setting" Emily Li-wen Wang, MPH (Coordinator); Farhiya Farah; Alika Gallaway; Clarence Jones; Doua Lee; Tony LookingElk; Elaine Salinas

"Creating Connections Between the University and the Community" Laurel Hirt; Kathy Huntley, MS; Barbara Laporte, MA; Kris Nelson, MPA
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"ECHO - Emergency Preparedness with Cultural Communities" Lillian McDonald
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"International Health Practice - Bringing it Home" Maggie Diebel, RN, MPH, Ian Greaves, MD
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"A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words: The Power of PhotoVoice" Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, Linda Harris, Beth Stenglein
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"Working Effectively with Diverse Media" Pamela Colby, Marco Fernandez Landoni, Vicki-Evans-Nash, Eli Johnson
View Fernandez Landoni PowerPoint

  Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Keynote: "Building a Fair Health Movement"
Gail C. Christopher, DN

"Unnatural Causes - Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" Excerpts from a four-hour PBS series.

"Prenatal Nutrition and Health: A Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Racial Perspective" Community Panel

"Immigrant Experiences with Food Assistance Programs"
Diana Cutts, MD

"Policy and Advocacy to Reduce Food Insecurity"
Elaine Cunningham View PowerPoint