3rd Annual Asian American Health Conference
"Take Notice, Take Action"
Sept. 29-30, 2006
NYU School of Medicine
550 First Avenue
New York City
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Our third Annual Asian American Health Conference urges participants to take notice of and take action towards reducing health disparities in the Asian American community.
The conference will include oral and poster presentations that reflect innovative programs, initiatives or research:
- Enhancing outreach and service delivery
- Strategies for developing action-oriented research
- Ensuring inclusion of Asian Americans in data collection and dissemination
Goals:
This year’s conference theme urges participants to take notice of and take action towards reducing health disparities in the Asian American community. To this end, the Asian American Health Conference has the following goals:
- To increase awareness and bring together concerned community members, including advocates, clinical providers, direct service providers, researchers, students, grant-makers, the media, and policy makers
- To broaden and strengthen participation in public and private community-campus collaborations and partnerships
- To highlight existing efforts to increase participation in community-based participatory research
- To highlight the continued need for increased ethnic-specific data collection and dissemination
- To emphasize the importance and to identify opportunities to train culturally and linguistically competent health workers serving the diverse Asian American community
- To share expertise, skills, and knowledge that will empower community-based organizations, academic institutions, and individuals to be an advocate at the local and national level
Objectives:
The conference has a series of objectives that are designed to address the conference theme of “Take Notice, Take Action!” By the end of the conference, participants will be competent in:
- Articulating the context within which major health disparities affect Asian American communities
- Strategizing how to ameliorate health disparities facing Asian American communities
- Working with a range of individuals- across sectors and across diverse communities- to address health disparities
- Mobilizing communities by leveraging assets and building capacity
For more information please contact:
csaahconf@med.nyu.edu or
(212) 263-3531