Adapting a faith-based health-promotion program to a diverse audience of immigrant and refugee women: Lessons learned

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Best practices in community mobilization to improve health among refugees and immigrant communities

Monday, November 4, 2013: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Oral

Moderator:

Abi Fapohunda, DrPH, MPH, MS

12:30pm

12:45pm

Combating cambodian health disparities: Using CBPR to reach isolated, high-risk populations
S. Megan Berthold, PhD, LCSW, Sengly Kong, PhD, Theanvy Kuoch, MA, LPC, Mary Scully, APRN and Seiya Fukuda, MS

1:00pm

Building capacity and partnership with bhutanese refugees to access well-women preventive & health services
Karen A. Heckert, PhD, MPH, MSW, Deirdre Demers, MPH, Purna Budathoki, BA, Ram Upreti, BS, Bishnu Tiwari, BA, Damayanti Kathet, BA, Sita Adhikari, BA, Purna Adhikari, Lachu Ghataney, Erica Smith, BS and Stephanie Smith, BS

1:15pm

Community-based approaches to refugee mental health in Philadelphia
Ellen Plumb, MD, Rickie O. Brawer, PhD,MPH, Melissa Fogg, MSW, Anna Escuder, BA, Christie Mulholland, BA, Michael Cafarchio, BA and James Plumb, MD, MPH

1:30pm

Adapting a faith-based health-promotion program to a diverse audience of immigrant and refugee women: Lessons learned
Annie Hardison-Moody, PhD, Carolyn Dunn, PhD, Cathy Thomas, MAEd, Lorelei Jones, MED and Maryam Funmilayo

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by: International Health, Public Health Nursing, Black Caucus of Health Workers