Conference Sessions

We are pleased to announce representatives from the following organizations as presenters during the conference:

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • The USDHHS Office of Minority Health
  • The Joint Commission
  • National Committee for Quality Assurance
  • America Medical Association
  • National Council on Interpreting in Health Care
  • National Health Law Project
  • Cross Cultural Health Care Program
  • Hennepin County (MN) Medical Center
  • Hablamos Juntos
  • Multilingual Health Resource Exchange
  • Speaking Together
  • National Center on Cultural Competence

These are some of the main workshops, peer-to-peer sessions and roundtable discussions that will be offered at the 2008 conference. Please check back regularly for updates.

 

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURAL COMPETENCE

• Creative strategies to engage diverse communities in service design and delivery

• Partnerships for health: Addressing culture in rural and urban settings

• Effective communication: The patient experience, leadership motivators, and a framework for action

• Innovative practices in multicultural health care: Three years of health plan awards

• Organizational journeys to CLAS: Part I - Readiness to engage. Part II - Successes and challenges for implementation

 

CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE

• Using patient navigators to bridge culture and improve outcomes

• Integrating cultural sensitivity into palliative and end of life care

• Faith and culture in health care: Using collaborative relationships to address critical concerns

• Straight to the people: Community health worker advances in training, practice, and policy

• Culture and innovative patient education: Role playing in real and virtual life

• Reaching thousands: Using the internet to improve outreach, collaboration and information dissemination

• The role of ethnic media in health disparities reduction

• Videovisitation: Meeting the elder care needs of a remote, culturally diverse population

• Lessons learned and practical strategies for integrating diverse communities into emergency preparedness

 

CULTURAL COMPETENCE WORKFORCE

• Globalization meets the health workforce: Training, recruitment, and integration for health professionals from other countries

• Creating incentives for cultural competence training: The role of financial rewards and employment agreements

• Quality in cultural competence training: A roundtable discussion on training and standards

 

INTERPRETATION AND LANGUAGE ACCESS

• Gladiators: A bloodless, skills-based workshop about promoting language services to hostile audiences

• Speaking Together: Applying quality improvement techniques to language services in high volume hospitals

• Issues and advances in interpreter training

• Developing written materials in other languages: Translation practice, evaluation and beyond

• Optimizing productivity for interpreter service programs

 

INTEGRATING CULTURAL COMPETENCE INTO QUALITY, RESEARCH AND POLICY AGENDAS

• Quality improvement for cultural competence and patient centered communication:
Implementation and measurement initiatives from national organizations

• Race, class and human rights: How structural inequalities affect health

• Voices from around the world: An international roundtable on culture and health

• Collecting data on diverse communities: Challenges and successes from health plans, hospitals, and health departments

• Improving health access and outcomes: What states and tribes are doing