Diversity/Underrepresented Minorities meetings & conferences

2012 Physician Assistant Education Association Annual Education Forum

November 7-11, 2012 Seattle, Washington

DiversityRx 2013 Conference--the Eighth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations

Achieving Equity in an Era of Innovation and Health System Transformation

March 11-14, 2013, Oakland, California

New partnerships between health care organizations and communities, research into improved ways to deliver care, and changes in health care policy are opening up opportunities to achieve equity and the highest quality health care for culturally diverse populations. In this time of transition, practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and advocates for health equity can focus attention on implementation, participation and improving health outcomes for individuals and communities. The 2013 conference will offer participants the opportunity to hear from experts and front-line leaders about how diverse populations are affected by:

state and national reform efforts
changes to the Medicaid program
innovative technology for information management and outreach
social determinants of health
other practice and financing developments.

As always, the conference will continue to feature both established and innovative cultural and linguistic competence and disparity reduction programs and policies from across the country and abroad.

2012 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference: Issues and Innovations

Thursday, October 18, 2012-Friday, October 19, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

The aim of this national conference is to identify issues, emphasize best practices, and highlight innovations by providing those who work with refugees and immigrants an opportunity to learn from and to network with one another.

Families of refugees and immigrants in the U.S. must do their best to manage transitions into new communities. Many of these families encounter financial hardship, difficulty in gaining employment, cultural adjustments, health and mental issues, intergenerational conflicts, and the stresses of unfamiliar school experiences.

Services for preschool and K-12 refugee and immigrant youth and their families may be compromised by differing perceptions and misunderstandings (by both the families and those who provide services) concerning the cultural adjustment process; health, health care, and nutrition; public education enrollment and assessment, academic roles and expectations, the provision of bilingual education services and special education services, when appropriate; and American education law requirements.

To address these and other refugee and immigrant issues, individuals and nonprofit organizations need access to resources on successful practices and processes as well as solutions for challenges in refugee and immigrant integration.

Efforts to help youth and families will have a better chance of succeeding if they are based on shared understandings and collaborative partnerships among families, schools, health and mental health providers. In particular, as delineated in federal Title III of No Child Left Behind legislation, linking educators and families together can provide positive academic experiences and successful integration of refugee and immigrant children into our society.

Organizations also need to build their capacity to assist families by gaining resources through grant writing, and assisting adults to become self-sufficient in this economy through employment services and innovative practices such as microenterprise.

2012 Refugee and Immigrant Conference Committee

The Center/Adult Learning Resource Center
Chicago Public Schools
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights
Heartland Health Outreach
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Illinois Department of Human Services
Illinois Department of Public Health
Illinois State Board of Education
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students

November 7-10, 2012 San Jose, California

ABRCMS
American Society for Microbiology Education Department
1752 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Ph: 202-942-9348
Fax: 202-403-3513

Email:abrcms@asmusa.org

37th Annual Conference of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing

October 24th, 25th & 26st, 2012 San Francisco, California

Conference Theme: Men in Nursing: Partners and Leaders in Nursing’s Future

3rd Cross Cultural Health Care Conference: Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Interventions

February 8-9, 2013 Honolulu, O`ahu, Hawai‛i

Presented by:
Department of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawai`i at Mānoa

Sponsored by:
Hawai`i Consortium for Continuing Medical Education
a joint venture between the Hawai`i Medical Association and the
John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa

OBJECTIVES

Assess the potential challenges healthcare practitioners and researchers face when working with diverse populations.
Identify the strengths and limitations of existing tools and measures that assess cultural competency/humility.
Develop opportunities to collaborate with researchers and/or practitioners across disciplines who share an interest in cross-cultural healthcare.

Contact us at +1 (808) 586 2925
mariachu@hawaii.edu

Our Future is Aging: Current Research on Knowledge, Practice and Policy Research Conference

November 21st-23rd, 2012 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

"Our Future is Aging: Current Research on Knowledge, Practice and Policy" research conference will be held on November 21-23, 2012, Delta Halifax Hotel, Halifax, Nova Scotia. This Conference will bring together researchers, academics, service providers, decision makers, artists, students, policy analysts and members of the community to share the diversity of perspectives and approaches to aging research within the Atlantic region and throughout Canada.

The Conference is being hosted by the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University as part of its 20th anniversary activities. Our Centre, in collaboration with a planning group of reseachers and representatives from practice and policy from throughout the region, are working to offer a valuable conference experience for you.

Atlantic Canada has the oldest populations in the country, and there is significant scholarly research on aging underway in the region that is not well known. This conference provides a unique opportunity for emerging and established researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the region who are interested and engaged in age-related research to come together to learn about, and be inspired by, one another’s work. It offers an occasion to learn about existing collaborations in aging research, and foster new ones.

About the Organization

The NSCA is a research centre affiliated with the Department of Family Studies & Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that was established in 1992. Through research, education and community engagement, the NSCA advances knowledge on aging to inform social policy and practice and enhance the quality of life of older people and their families. For more information on the NSCA visit www.msvu.ca/nsca.

2012 marks our 20th anniversary, and we are planning a special celebration. Our anniversary theme is Our Future is Aging. We chose this theme because it captures where we as a society are headed (our population is aging) and it reaffirms the work and mission of the NSCA to generate knowledge that informs policy and practice on aging related issues. Our Future is Aging: Current Research on Knowledge, Practice and Policy, is one event in the 20th Anniversary program of activities. This research conference supports two of the Centre’s strategic directions by fostering research collaborations and engaging in knowledge translation activities.

Travel Bursaries
If funding permits a limited number of travel bursaries may be available to students traveling to the conference. These bursaries will be distributed on a first-come-first serve basis, and will require the completion and submission of a student travel bursary form. Students are encouraged to identify their intent to apply for a travel bursary on the Online Submission form.

For additional information please consult the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging website: www.msvu.ca/nsca.

Halifax Nova Scotia B3M 2J6 Canada
Tel 902-457-6546 • Fax 902-457-6508

Email: nsca@msvu.ca
www.msvu.ca/nsca

Celebrating 20 Years of Advancing Aging Research and Enhancing Seniors' Lives

International Psychogeriatric Association International Meeting 2012

September 7-11, 2012 Cairns, Australia

 The theme of the meeting is Mental Health and Cultural Diversity.

The International Psychogeriatric Association 2012 Meeting Office:

WaldronSmith Management
119 Buckhurst Street
South Melbourne VIC 3205 Australia
T +61 3 9645 6311
F +61 3 9645 6322
E ipa2012@wsm.com.au
www.ipa2012cairns.com

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 14th Annual Meeting

October 18-21, 2012 Washington DC

Theme: Representing Bioethics

The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-professional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.

For general inquiries and customer service:

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
4700 W. Lake
Glenview, IL 60025-1485
Phone: 847/375-4745
Fax: 847/375-6482
Email: info@asbh.org

41st Annual Association of American Indian Physicians Meeting

The 41st Annual AAIP meeting has been set for Anchorage, Alaska on July 31st through August 5th, 2012.

"Advancing Native Health and Wellness" will be the central theme of the conference. Next year's conference will be special in that the Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparaties Research will hold its conference co-jointly with ours. This will mark the first time Native Hawaiian physicians and American Indian physicians will come together to share research and ideas on Native health and wellness.

General conference topic areas:

Traditional healing
Diversity in the biomedical and healthcare workforce
Community engaged interventions
Models of health care delivery
Health disparities
Public/Private collaborations to address Native health and wellness
Social determinants of health
Native-driven research

Association of American Indian Physicians
1225 Sovereign Row, Suite 103
Oklahoma City, OK 73108
Phone: (405) 946-7072
Fax: (405) 946-7651