Upcoming webcast focuses on community health centers’ non-clinical work
A panel of community health-center leaders will discuss health centers’ work outside clinical care in a free webcast Monday, June 20, 2011 at noon.
The interactive webcast will include examples of community health centers that address social determinants of health such as education, jobs, housing, transportation, access to nutritional foods, and neighborhood safety. Much of the differences in health outcomes and health disparities are shaped by such factors.
Although community health centers often go beyond clinical care, little information about these activities has been collected systematically. The webcast is part of an effort to document health centers’ work to improve overall community health.
Working with National Association of Community Health Centers and Clinical Directors Network, the Institute for Alternative Futures is building a database of health-center activities aimed at the social determinants of health. The project is supported by The Kresge Foundation.
Participants in the webcast will be asked to describe their work and enter examples onto the project's Web page. That page is part of the Institute for Alternative Futures website.
For example, many community health centers have nutrition programs for women, infants and children. Others may foster farmers markets and community gardens, or provide parenting education. The partners compiling this data hope to learn how these and other efforts are supported, staffed and evaluated.
The webcast panelists include
- Clem Bezold, chairman of Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, Va.
- Jonathan N. Tobin, president and chief executive officer of the Clinical Directors Network and co-director for Community-based Research, The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical Translational Science, New York.
- Roland Gardner, chief executive officer of the Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Ridgeland, S.C.
- Thomas Trompeter, chief executive officer of HealthPoint, Seattle, Wash.
- Peter Nelson, chief executive officer of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, New York.
To register for the free webcast, visit www.CDNetwork.org and click on "Upcoming Webcasts."
For more information, contact Cynthia Shaw, cbshaw@kresge.org or call 248-643-9630.
The Kresge Foundation
3215 West Big Beaver Road
Troy, Michigan 48084
248.643.9630 telephone
248.643.0588 fax
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