Health Equity: Awareness, Advocacy and Action
This is an archive of a past event.
This presentation will explore concepts of health equity and provide insight from relevant research to raise awareness and offer insight on how we can work towards creating a more just and equitable public health sphere. Advocating for health equity necessitates critical conversations, and we will explore the power of reflective practice as a tool to facilitate these discussions. To translate awareness and advocacy into tangible change, we will review real-world examples to illustrate the concrete steps required to effect change and cultivate new competencies in health equity for public health professionals.
By the end of this event, participants will be able to:
- Knowledge: Describe the concept of health equity and its relevance to the delivery of healthcare in public health settings.
- Comprehension: Recognize disparities in access to healthcare services, healthcare system engagements, treatment trajectory, and patient/client outcomes from a data informed perspective.
- Application: Apply reflective practice strategies to engage in critical conversations and to promote health equity in public health.
Presenter(s)
Dr. Malinda Forsythe Carmouche, DNP, MSN, RN is a healthcare educator and consultant with over 20 years of experience in nursing education and 34 years of professional nursing experience in maternal-child, family and public health. For the last 7.5 years, she has provided consultation support for registered nurses and program administrators implementing the Nurse-Family Partnership Model. Malinda has worked professionally as a labor and delivery nurse, a home visitor, legal nurse consultant, nursing professor, and as a leader of a nursing program. Her greatest successes have been personal; she has been married for 31 years and has two adult children.