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