Thursday, October 1, 2009

Reminder: 5th Annual Asian American Health Conference

The 5th Annual Asian American Health Conference, "Reinvesting in Our communities for Health Equity", will be held next week, October 8th - 9th, 2009. I will be presenting a poster session "Review & Analysis of Community Based Organizations Impacting South Asian Health". I hope to see you there.

Conference Information:

Center for the Study of Asian American Health
5th Annual Asian American Health Conference
"Reinvesting in Our Communities for Health Equity"
October 8th – 9th, 2009
Farkas Auditorium, NYU Langone Medical Center
To find out more about this conference, please visit:
http://www.med.nyu.edu/csaah/events/conf2009.html
To register for this conference, please visit:
http://www.med.nyu.edu/csaah/events/eventregistration09.html

Conference Topics Include: Immigration; health literacy, language access, community basedparticipatory research; training research and health professional advocates; developingpartnerships across Asian American communities; and ensuring inclusion of APIs withinthe political system. Health issues of particular concern for APIs families to behighlighted include hepatitis B, cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, women’shealth, nutrition and mental health.

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