Impact Summit - Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition

Registration

Keynote Speaker

Agenda

Location

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Professionals: $35.00 | Students: $20.00

DEADLINE TO REGISTER: November 04, 2024

Purpose

The purpose of the conference, “Strategic Shift: Integrating Social Determinants into Equitable Practices,” is to bring together thought leaders, professionals, and partners from diverse fields to explore and advance the integration of social determinants into equitable practices. By fostering collaborative discussions and sharing innovative insights, the conference aims to inspire transformative actions that address the root causes of disparities, promote inclusivity, and drive positive social change.

Audience

This conference, “Strategic Shift: Integrating Social Determinants into Equitable Practices,” is designed for a diverse audience of professionals, researchers, policymakers, educators, healthcare practitioners, community leaders, advocates, and individuals committed to advancing social equity.

Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. -Healthy People 2030

Objectives

To advance approaches and strategies that enhance equitable practices to address social determinants in all settings.

To explore the impacts of social and political determinants on health and well-being.

To understand the latest research, evaluation, trends, and implementation of scientific approaches to advance health equity and social change.

To formulate and integrate equity principles into your personal, professional, and institutional practices for inclusive and impactful outcomes.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Khama Ennis

Khama Ennis, MD, MPH is the creator and founder of Faces of Medicine, a donor-funded narrative project centered on the journeys of Black female physicians. She is passionate about the role of physician diversity in improving health equity and reducing disparities. She created Faces of Medicine, a documentary and storytelling project, to move the needle on representation in medicine. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Parents Magazine. She has been an invited speaker on the subject of health equity and a guest on many podcasts.

Dr. Ennis embarked on this project after a 20 year career in Emergency Medicine including 5 years as chief & medical director of the MGB Cooley Dickinson Hospital Emergency Department. She served a two year term as President of the Medical Staff that concluded in 2022. In 2023 she launched Intentional Health, a direct care medical practice grounded in Lifestyle Medicine and Integrative Health. She is also the Assistant Medical Director of University Health Services for the University of Massachusetts’ flagship Amherst campus.

She graduated from Brown University with an undergraduate concentration in medical anthropology. She earned her MD at the NYU School of Medicine and her MPH at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Mass General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. Dr. Ennis completed Medical Acupuncture training at the University of New England and has also trained in Lifestyle Medicine and completed a fellowship in Integrative Health at Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. She is the lucky mother of two incredible daughters and a devoted daily NY Times crossword solver.

Agenda

8:30 am – 9:00 am	Registration
9:00 am – 10:00 am	Summit Welcome Keynote Address – Dr. Khama Ennis, Faces of Medicine
10:00 am – 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am – 11:30 am	Session 1
	Legislative Track The Journey to Housing Stability—Dr. Jafeth Sanchez- UNR Latino Research Center; Meredith Levine, The Guinn Center; Nick Fritz, Intermountain Healthcare Moderated by: Nia Girma, Nevada Housing Division	Capacity Building Track Using Cultural Humility to Build Workforce Capacity – Elizabeth Amaya-Fernandez, Larson Institute for Health Impact and Equity; Ricardo Rubalcaba Paredes & Nicholas Chiang, High Sierra AHEC	Research Track Utilizing Culturally-Tailored Peer-to-Peer Group Interventions to Increase Breast Cancer Screenings in Minority Women—Valerie Martinez, W. Cheryl Ballard & Lily Helzer, Nevada Cancer Coalition Improving Data Transparency to Advance Health Equity: Implementation of the Health Equity Status Report in Clark County, NV—Tamera Travis, SNHD Power in Partnership: Advancing Reproductive Justice Through Community Research— Zarinah Washington & Jollina Walker, Make It Work Nevada
11:30 am – 1:00 pm	Lunch, Networking & Exhibits
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm	Session 2
	Legislative Track Elected Officials Panel (to be updated)	Capacity Building Track CMS Framework for Health Equity and Update—Darrick Lam & Cristina Collazo, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Integrating Social Determinants into Harm Reduction, Awareness, and Behavioral Health Referral Networks— Baldo Bobadilla, Larson Institute for Health Impact and Equity Action for Children's Health-- A New Approach for Nevada— Chelsea Bishop, Dr. Tahnee Forlini & Rebeka Acosta, Act4Kids Nevada	Research Track The Social Determinants Supercharger: Climate Change and Health Equity—Dr. Joann Leovy, Nevada Clinicians for Climate Change The Road Ahead: Priorities and Opportunities for Environmental Justice—Kathryn Ortiz y Pino, West EJ Center at the University of Arizona; Gerold Dermid, Larson Institute for Health Impact and Equity Building Resilience Through Climate Justice in Nevada—Dr. Anthony Chen, UNLV School of Public Health
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm	Break
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm	Session 3
	Legislative Track Advocacy 101 Training—NMHEC Public Policy Workgroup	Capacity Building Track Feeding Communities: Challenges and Solutions— Dr. Sabina Malik, UNR Extension-Southern Nevada Food Council; Allison Genco, Governor’s Council on Food Security; Earstin Whitten, Soulful Seeds Nevada; Jemaima Tagayuna, Dignity Health Moderated by Dr. Richard Rosenkranz, UNLV, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences	Research Track Taking Control of Our Health: Information that Empowers—Gina Glass, Dreamsickle Moderated by Justine Holleran & Hope Ventricelli, Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm	Break
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Community Engagement Panel—TBA Closing Remarks—Genentech & NMHEC Leadership
5:00 pm -6:30 pm	Networking Reception