Cultural Competency Webinars

SERIES OF WEBINARS EXPLORING

CULTURAL COMPETENCY:

HEALTH CARE MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF DIVERSE SOCIETIES

May - December 2007

Webinar 1, May 16, 2007

Audio Recording.

Dennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH, Director, Center for Health Equality, Associate Dean of Research at Drexel's School of Public Health

Presentation: Opportunity and Promising Practices for Advancing Cultural Competence in Health Care.

Professor Leon Epstein, The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research (NIHP)

Presentation: Cultural Competence in Health Care - the Israeli Case.

Webinar 2, May 30, 2007

Miriam Shlesinger, Chair, Department of Translation Studies, Bar Ilan University

Presentation: Ethical Issues in the Work of the Cultural Liaison.

Brian Palmer, Associate Executive Director, Coney Island Hospital

Response.

Webinar 3, June 13, 2007

Brian Palmer, Associate Executive Director, Coney Island Hospital

Presentation: the Imperative of Hospital Based Cultural Competency .

Dr. Anita Noble, Henrietta Szold/Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing

Presentaion: Cultural Competence in Israel.

Webinar 4, September 11, 2007

Young Lee, Assistant Director, Training & Development, Coney Island Hospital

Presentation: Cultural Competency in the Health Care Setting: Tools for Change.

Sara Nissim, RN, MA, Deputy Director, Zefat School of Nursing

Presentaion: Advocating for Cultural Competency in Nursing: a Unique Experience in Israel.

Webinar 5, October 16, 2007

Audio Recording.

Francesca Gany, Executive Director, New York Task Force on Immigrant Health, NYU School of Medicine

Presentation: Linguistic access to Health Care (adapted presentation will be available here by mid-November).

Professor Leon Epstein, The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research (NIHP)

Report: a Workshop on Culturally Appropriate Health Care by Culturally Competent Health Professionals, October 9-10, 2007, Caesarea, Israel .

Webinar 6, November 14, 2007
Wednesday, 9:30-11:00 EST (NY, Toronto, Montreal), 16:30-18:00 Israel time.

Audio Recording.

Yvonne Graham, Deputy Borough President, Office of the Brooklyn Borough President

Presentation: Cultural Competency in Community Organizing.

Anat Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D, Director, Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Israel; Founder of the “Tene Briut” Project, Health Promotion in the Ethiopian Community in Israel

Presentation: Even a Meadow can be a Jungle.

Webinar 7, December 20, 2007
Thursday, 9:30-11:00 EST (NY, Toronto, Montreal), 16:30-18:00 Israel time.

Audio Recording.

Evelyn L. Lewis M.D., M.A., FAAFP, Medical Policy Director, World Wide Public Affairs and Policy, Pfizer, Inc.

Presentation: an Overview of the Impact of Health and Healthcare Disparities in the United States and the Bronx .

Diane Levin-Zamir, MPH, CHES, Director, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Clalit Health Services, Israel

Presentation: "REFUAH SHLEMA" – Cultural Liasons in Primary Care - Lessons Learnt from 10 Years of Implementation .

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