speaker event: "Community Health Workers: Diverse and Talented Health Professionals "

Portland area alumni of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School of Government Cordially invite you!

Community Health Workers: Diverse and Talented Health Professionals for the 21st Century*
 
Date: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Time: 5-7 P.M.
Location: University Club - Fireside Room
1225 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are trusted community members who promote health and decrease inequities in their own communities. The majority of CHWs come from diverse communities that are currently underrepresented among the ranks of health, social work and public policy professionals. CHWs represent an existing workforce that can vastly increase the diversity of the health, social service, and policy professions.

This event will bring together CHWs from diverse communities and alumni of graduate programs in health, social work and public policy. CHWs will raise awareness about their profession and its actual and potential contribution to achieving the Quadruple Aim (better quality care, lower cost of care, improved population health, and increased health equity). Leaders from graduate schools of public health will provide information about their programs. CHWs and alumni will network, opening the pathway into graduate school for CHWs and better integrating CHWs into the health workforce.

Featured Speakers:
Nancy Turnbull, PhD, Senior Lecturer on Health Policy, Associate Dean for Professional Education, Harvard School of Public Health
Jeff Oxendine, MBA, MPH, Associate Dean, Center for Public Health Practice, Project Director, California Pacific Public Health Training Center, Project Director, Health Careers Opportunity Program

RSVP by October 25 to: Noelle Wiggins, ninanoelia@msn.com, HSPH

*This event is made possible in part by grants from the Cambia Health Foundation and the Oregon Office of Equity and Inclusion.