Workshop #3: Public Agenda
AMERICA IN TRANSITION, A VIEW FROM CALIFORNIA:
IMPLICATIONS FOR ADDRESSING HEALTH DISPARITIES
Roundtable on Health Disparities
Public Meeting
Center For Healthy Communities
The California Endowment
1000 N. Alameda Street
Los, Angeles, California
JULY 28, 2008
8:00 a.m. Welcome
Nicole Lurie, Chair
Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Disparities
Senior Natural Scientist and Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professor
RAND Corporation
Alicia Dixon, Member, Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Disparities
Program Officer
The California Endowment
8:15 a.m. The Changing Face of American Communities: No Data, No Problem
E. Richard Brown, M.D.
Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
University of California, Los Angeles
Unity or Apartheid: The Implications of Diversity for U.S. Society
Mindy Fullilove, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health
Columbia University
9:15 a.m. Framing Health Disparities: More than a Message
Lori Dorfman, DrPH
Director, Berkeley Media Studies Group
10:00 a.m. Break (15 minutes)
10:30 a.m. Panel : Case Communities - How Have Communities in Transition Framed Health Disparities for Action?
East Palo Alto
Ruben Abrica, City Council Member, East Palo Alto
Melieni Talakai, Vice Chair, Board of Directors
Ravenswood Family Health Center
Luisa Buada, R.N., M.P.H.
Chief Executive Officer, Ravenswood Family Health Center
South County Community Health Center, Inc.
Douglas J. Fort
For Youth By Youth, Inc.
Founder & Director, Intervention/ReEntry/Street Team Services
Fresno
Keith Kelly, President & CEO
Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development
Lu Yang
Fresno Center for New Americans
Veva Islas-Hooker, M.P.H.
Regional Program Coordinator
Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program
South Central Los Angeles
Maxine E. Liggins, M.D.
Area Medical Director, Public Health Division of the Los Angeles
County Department of Health Services
Richard A. Veloz, M.P.H., J.D.
Chief Executive Officer, South Central Family Health Center
Marqueece Dawson, Executive Director
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Comments/Reaction
Anthony Iton, M.D.
Alameda County Health Department
1:00 p.m. Lunch (box lunch provided)
2:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions with Case Community Representatives: Challenges and Opportunities
in Framing Health Disparities to Stimulate Action
3:30 p.m. Report from Small Groups: Lessons Learned
4:30 p.m. Summing up/Conclusions/Observations
Back to Meeting