The University of Virginia Master of Public Health Program and the Virginia Department of Health, in conjunction with the Virginia Public Health Association, are offering a series of webinars on addressing health equity to follow up on the extremely successful 2009 Virginia Health Equity Conference.
The interactive webinars will explore a range of topics designed to provide cutting-edge information and tools to public health professionals and community stakeholders committed to advancing health equity. Continuing Education Credits are available for anyone completing either the live or on demand (archived) sessions. Please visit the Upcoming and On-Demand pages to view details on the webinars available for viewing.
The Department of Public Health Sciences focuses its energies, expertise and collaborations on enabling the University of Virginia and its School of Medicine to improve the health and well being of individuals and populations. By assembling multidisciplinary teams that combine expertise from biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, informatics and public health in collaboration with clinicians and scientists, we create new technologies for the generation, analysis, interpretation and management of basic and health-related data, as well as new educational and learning opportunities and program offerings. These efforts are intended ultimately to assist individuals, clinicians, communities and public health policymakers in making informed, wise, equitable and cost-effective choices, and to establish the University of Virginia and its School of Medicine as an international leader in medical science, technology and the increasingly complex challenges of public health and personalized medicine. http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/phs/wdc-lib/phs_home.cfm?flush=1
The Virginia Department of Health is dedicated to promoting and protecting the health of Virginians. VDH’s vision is healthy people in healthy communities. Within VDH, the Office of Minority health and Health Equity supports this vision through its mission to identify health inequities and their root causes and promote equitable opportunities to be healthy. The office serves as the state office of minority health, rural health, and primary care and focuses its efforts on promoting health and health equity among socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, rural and inner city residents, medically underserved, and other marginalized communities and populations. www.vdh.virginia.gov
The mission of the Virginia Public Health Association (VAPHA) is to improve the public’s health in Virginia by strengthening practice and promoting sound public health policy. VAPHA has demonstrated its commitment to advancing health equity by partnering with VDH’s Office of Minority Health and Public Health Policy and others on the 2009 Virginia Health Equity Conference, the social networking site to advance health equity, and now the first in a series of webinars on health equity. Through this partnership, it is working toward meeting its goals to help develop a first-rate public health workforce in Virginia, become a trustworthy voice for public health, and promote effective and promising strategies through collaborative leadership. www.vapha.org
Please consider joining and participating on the Virginia Advancing Health Equity: From Theory to Practice social networking site to learn, ask questions, share and connect with others who want to advance health equity in Virginia. http://healthequityinva.ning.com/