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Webinar: Nursing Clinical Quality Transformation
This web-based presentations for medical students, interns, residents and fellows will review case examples of McKinsey's support of Clinical Transformation efforts in large US provider systems. Specifically, we will highlight examples of nursing clinical quality improvement programs and front-line transformation efforts in the inpatientand outpatient setting. We will review ways to effectively engage front-line staff to participate in and lead these efforts to ensure long-term sustainability. Date: Wednesday, September 14th Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET To RSVP for the WebEx presentation, or to register to receive more information on career opportunities with McKinsey & Company, please click on the following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NursingClinicalQualityTransformationRSVP
Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College Scholars Health Policy Seminar Series
This series acts as the capstone experience for students in Meharry’s Health Policy Certificate Program. Thus far, the series has included presentations from RWJF scholars including Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research recipients David Williams, Ph.D., (’94) and James Jackson, Ph.D., (’09) and Clinical Scholars alumnus Tim Carey, M.D., M.P.H., (’83). Lecturers presented on diverse topics including medical malpractice and health policy, why African Americans are sicker and die younger, and the implications of the Affordable Care Act on health care disparities.
To access the lectures filmed live go to:
http://meharryhealthpolicy.org/
Jefferson School of Population Health Monthly Health Policy Forum
The Health Policy Forum is a monthly program (September-June) designed to impart cutting-edge information on population health, public health, healthcare quality and safety and chronic care management. Presented by regional thought leaders, the series serves as a venue to discuss and explore the broad health policy issues affecting health care today. The Health Policy Forum is appropriate for students, faculty and staff, health care professionals, administrators, public policy analysts, and community health leaders.
If you have iTunes installed, visit http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/itunesu to see what is currently available.
Multicultural Newsroom
RWJF has launched its Multicultural Newsroom, a dynamic online resource that aims to provide extensive health-related information for anyone involved in improving the health and health care of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States. Through a multicultural lens and bilingual messaging, the site presents information, images and videos on the RWJF work underway in African-American and Latino communities across the country.
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Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
Major new report in The Lancet by the Commission on Health Workforce and Education.
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RWJF Clinical Scholars Short Presentation
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RWJF Clinical Scholars Full Presentation
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Online Resource for Publishing Diverse Products of Community-Engaged Scholarship Now Available
Peer Review Process Helps to Ensure Products "Count" in Promotion and Tenure Decisions & Make a Difference in Communities
For more information, email info@CES4Health.info or visit http://www.CES4Health.info.
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Speaking Truth, Creating Power: A Guide to Policy Work for Community-Based Participatory Research Practitioners
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Recommended Readings and Selected Presentations available from NIH Summer Institute on CBPR
In August 2009, the National Institutes of Health sponsored a summer institute on CBPR. Recommended readings and many of the institute presentations are now available online at http://conferences.thehillgroup.com/si2009/agenda.html
The institute site also includeds links to a number of CBPR oriented NIH funding announcements, pasted below:
Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-074.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-075.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-076.html
Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-379.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-380.html
Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-018.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-019.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-020.html
Impact of Health Communication Strategies on Dietary Behaviors
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-239.html
Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-421.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-422.html
The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium's Community
Engagement Key Function Committee and the CTSA Community Engagement
Workshop Planning Committee have authored the report,
"Researchers and Their Communities: The Challenge of Meaningful Community
Engagement." The report provides background on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) CTSA Program and summarizes the best practices that emerged from a series of national and regional workshops on community engagement in research held in 2007 and 2008.
Learn more about the CTSA program at http://www.ctsaweb.org/
The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) invites you to the next monthly NIH Health Disparities Seminar Series scheduled for August 13, 2009. The theme for the August seminar series is community-based participatory research (CBPR). For those of you unable to attend in person at NIH, the videocast of session will be available within a few days after the seminar. For more information visit the NCMHD website at www.ncmhd.nih.gov or call 301-402-1366.
Click here for more information
Community Based Research Canada and the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research
Community Based Research Canada (CBRC) is a network of people and organizations engaged in Community-Based Research to meet the needs of people and communities.
www.communityresearchcanada.ca
Stanford alumna develops Public Health and Social Justice Website
Martin T Donohoe, MD, FACP (Stanford/Palo Alto VA, '94-'96) recently developed a website covering public health and social justice, which can be found at http://www.phsj.org or at http://www.publichealthandsocialjustice.org . This website contains articles, slide shows, syllabi, and other documents relevant to topics in public health and social justice. References for most of the information contained in the slide shows can be found in the accompanying articles. Presentations will be updated a few times per year. The site is aimed at students, educators, and the general public.
Some of the content focuses on the medical humanities and the history of medicine. Dr. Donohoe is hoping to add other syllabi and articles from the many talented individuals working in this area. Please email him any articles and/or slide shows you would be willing to share, along with comments, corrections, and suggestions regarding his
content.
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