Register Today! Workforce Grand Rounds Webinar Series: Building Health Equity: The Link Between Social Determinants, Healthy Communities, and Workforce Training

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Workforce Grand Rounds Webinar Series:

Building Health Equity: The Link Between Social Determinants, Healthy Communities, and Workforce Training

June 13, 2018
2:00-3:30pm ET


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Purpose: 

To highlight efforts combating the social determinants of health as relative to different populations and how they are used to educate and train health professionals.

Objectives:  

  1. Identify health workforce education and training that address social determinants. 
  2. Understand a new framework for intervening in the social determinants of health.


Meet the Presenters

Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH
Senior Vice-President for Healthy Communities
The California Endowment 

Janice C. Probst, PhD
Director, South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Professor, Department of Health Services Policy and Management
Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina 

Sandra Lane, PhD, MPH
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Professor of Public Health and Anthropology, Syracuse University
Research Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology, Upstate Medical University 

Deborah Smith Clements, MD
Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Nancy and Warren Furey Professor of Community Medicine
Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Medical Education,
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University


About:

The Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) programs provide financial support to institutions and individuals to enhance training programs and support practice in underserved communities. 

The Workforce Grand Rounds webinar series' goal is to improve health professions training with the intention to increase the number of high-quality health professionals, particularly in rural and underserved communities.