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Joint Center Health Policy Institute: Community-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities
05/26/04
This forum was held May 25, 2004, at the Barbara Jordan Conference Center at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C.
At this event, public officials, community activists, and policymakers came together to identify many ways in which community involvement can greatly improve the health of African Americans and Latinos. They discussed four working papers prepared by PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization based in Oakland, California. In addition to an overview paper, there were papers on environmental conditions and asthma; diet and obesity; and immigrant populations. The topics were developed through interviews with African American and Latino elected officials and health advocates. Dr. Nathan Stinson, Jr., the HHS deputy assistant secretary for minority health, headlined the event with a luncheon keynote speech at 12:30 p.m., with
Dr. Robert K. Ross, the president and CEO of The California Endowment, as the opening speaker.