"Our Community Our Health" discussion
As part of the UF-FSU Clinical and Translational Science Award, the FSU Community-Engagement and Rural Health Core team is hosting the "Our Community Our Health" discussion on Wednesday, November 6 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the FSU Research Foundation Building A, Room 120. It will be available via livestream as well.
The first portion of the meeting will be a catalytic conversation with local community folks sharing experiences and stimulating change and leadership toward health equity.
This forum is for everyone.
After the initial local meeting for 30 minutes, they will begin a national webinar at 6 p.m. with guest moderator and anchor panelist, Dr. Camara Jones, past-president of the American Public Health Association and Senior Fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Jones is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. See the names of the entire panel below.
This hour-long panel discussion will include examples of community-academic partnerships and a Q&A session about how we can continue to take action to improve maternal and child health equity.
Space is limited so please RSVP to Lisa.Gardner@med.fsu.edu by November 1.
Dr. Camara Jones is the past-president of the American Public Health Association and Senior Fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Jones is a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Additional Speakers include:
Ms. Miaisha Mitchell
Greater Frenchtown Revitalization Council and
Maternal and Child Health Equity Collaborative (MCHE)
Dr. Joedrecka S. Brown Speights
FSU College of Medicine and
Maternal and Child Health Equity Collaborative (MCHE)
Ms. Courtney Atkins
Whole Child Leon and
Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative (and MCHE)
Dr. Penny Ralston
Center on Better Health and Life for Underserved Populations and
Health for Hearts United
Reverend Roosevelt Rogers
Convener
Pastors' Advisory Council, Health for Hearts United
Objectives:
Stimulate catalytic conversations toward leadership in health equity using an innovative format in which participants share lived experience.
Create a forum in which participants gain one tool for leadership in health equity and/or community-engagement that can be useful in translational research and/or the
field.
Encourage participants to commit to one leadership and/or community-engaged activity as a result of participation.
Approach:
Catalyze thought and action
Share local/regional exemplars with national implication
Community/Academic partnership presenters
Outcomes to translate to next steps in addressing Maternal Child Health Equity in our region
FSU Research Foundation Building A, Room 120