Missouri Health Equity Collaborative (MOHEC)
Spring 2012 Events
"Healthy Lives, Healthy Communities: Building Health Equity in Missouri, One Community at a Time"
April 27, 2012
Garden Conference Center at the Hilton Garden Inn, Columbia, MO
"Healthy Lives, Healthy Communities: Building Health Equity in Missouri, One Community at a Time," was a one-day conference with leading researchers, program planners, health care advocates and more. The conference covered racial and ethnic health disparities, newcomer and immigrant health disparities, health disparities for individuals with mental health conditions and LGBT health disparities.
Keynote speakers:
Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
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Making Progress in Understanding |
Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions |
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Darrell Kirch, MD, president and CEO, AAMC |
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Addressing Health Disparities in Breast Cancer Using a Team Science Approach |
Sarah Gehlert, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis |
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Katherine Mathews, MD, MPH, MBA, Casa De Salud, St. Louis |
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Sherrill Wayland, MSW, SAGE Metro St. Louis |
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Joe Parks, MD, Missouri Department of Mental Health, Jefferson City |
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Bill Snook, MS, Ed, program manager for health and social marketing, City of Kansas City, MO Health Dpt. |
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Cathy Anderson, manager of JVS Language and Cultural Services |
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Dave Campbell, MD and Samantha Marquard, MSN, APRN, MPH, Institute for Family Medicine |
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Jane McElroy and Kevin Everett, Family and Community Medicine Department, University of Missouri-Columbia |
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Perspectives from Newcomer Patients about Accessing the Health Care System |
Steve Jeanetta, PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia |
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R. Paul Thomlinson, PhD, Burrell Behavioral Health |
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The Impact of Sexual & Gender Microaggressions on LGBT Accessibility to Healthcare |
Jeff Lubsen, organizer of the LGBT-Affirmative Therapists Guild of Greater Kansas City |
MOHEC BACKGROUND
In 2007, the Centers for Health Policy at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Washington University established the Missouri Health Equity Collaborative (or MOHEC) through a contract with the Missouri Foundation for Health and later, the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City. The Collaborative serves as a conduit for connecting policy experts, practitioners, communities and researchers.
One way the Collaborative makes these connections is by hosting meetings to bring together professionals working around the state in the area of health disparities. This is done once yearly on a state-wide basis as well as other smaller, regional meetings throughout Missouri.
Finally, MOHEC is committed to developing and distributing disparities-focused information. This is accomplished through policy briefs, fact sheets, chartbooks and an ongoing newsletter that highlights the latest strategies for reducing disparities in Missouri and the nation.
Visit the collaborative's web site: MOHEC.org
Past Events
2011
"Building Health Equity in the Kansas City Region"
December 7, 2011 - 10 am-3pm - Kauffman Conference Center
MOHEC and EHRs Workgroup
May 25, 2011
10 am- 3pm
Fall 2010
Building Health Equity Regional Meetings
In the Fall of 2010, MOHEC team members traveled the state to present and discuss the latest research from Missouri communities:
- St. Louis -- 9/15/10
- Mid-Missouri/Columbia -- 9/29/10
- Springfield -- 10/13/10
- The Bootheel -- 10/20/10
- Kansas City -- 11/10/10
http://medicine.missouri.edu/policy/projects-healthequity.html
