Geographic Health Equity Symposium: “Where You Live Matters to Your
Health”
Hosted by: Geographic Health Equity Alliance operated by CADCA
Date: Friday, July 25, 2014, 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek Hotel, 14651 Chelonia Parkway, Orlando, Florida
Cost to attend: FREE, Preregistration Required
Hosted by: Geographic Health Equity Alliance operated by CADCA
Date: Friday, July 25, 2014, 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek Hotel, 14651 Chelonia Parkway, Orlando, Florida
Cost to attend: FREE, Preregistration Required
Attendees of the symposium will:
• Understand and define a geographic health disparity.
• Understand the factors that lead to geographic health disparities.
• Understand key geographic health disparities in tobacco and cancer.
• Understand how to use and implement the Community Commons maps as a resource.
• Understand and utilize the Geographic Health Equity Alliance and its national network
partners as a resource to address cancer and tobacco related disparities in their communities.
• Understand and define a geographic health disparity.
• Understand the factors that lead to geographic health disparities.
• Understand key geographic health disparities in tobacco and cancer.
• Understand how to use and implement the Community Commons maps as a resource.
• Understand and utilize the Geographic Health Equity Alliance and its national network
partners as a resource to address cancer and tobacco related disparities in their communities.
CEU credits and contact hours are available.
To register and find out more about this event, click here.
The goal of this conference is to provide a platform for attendees to share their perspectives on how the health system working collaboratively can decrease these statistics. Focusing on integration, interventions, and the impact of the ACA (insurance), participants will have the opportunity to hear from and exchange ideas with national leaders, public health cessation experts, policy makers, researchers, and behavioral health prevention and treatment experts on current cessation activities.
To find out more and to register, visit the conference website.
12th Annual Health Disparities in America Conference “Working Toward Social Justice”
June 23 – 28, 2014
Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
The 12th Annual conference will be held at
Prairie View A & M University College of Nursing at the Texas Medical
Center. This year’s opening keynote speaker will be the Honorable Louis W.
Sullivan, former Secretary of Health & Human Services on the morning of June
23rd, 2014. The introduction to the conference will made by Dr. Robert Robbins,
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Medical Center.
To learn more about this conference and to
register, click here.
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