269838 Cultural Competency as a critical tool in Addressing Environmental Justice Issues in the United States

Saturday, October 27, 2012 : 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH , Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences, Prof. & Chair, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the relevant research in the area of Environmental Justice and Public Health and utilize this as a framework to teach selected competencies from the report in the areas of knowledge, attitudes and practice skills. Examples from Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill will be highlighted in this session.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Environmental health sciences
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Define the role of cultural competence education in the context of environmental justice issues in the United States. Identify cultural competence domains relevant to managing a natural disaster in the US with culturally diverse populations. Discuss two examples of the relevance of cultural competence in the public health response to Hurrican Katrina. Discuss two examples of the relevance of cultural competence in the public health response to the Gulf Oil Spill. Analyze medical and public health culturally appropriate responses for responding to environmental justice issues in the US.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am recognized as an international expert in the area of Environmental Health and Policy, an endowed Chair and Professor of Environmental Health Policy and have served on numerous boards and panels related to the content of this learning institute including the AAMC senior advisor on the panel establishing national competencies for schools of public health and medicine.I served as a Co-author for the Cultural Competence report used as a framework for this institute.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.