This session highlighted policy solutions and opportunities for advancing a health equity agenda.

Speaker: Larry Cohen, Prevention Institute

Larry Cohen, Prevention, is founder and Executive Director of Prevention Institute, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving community health and equity through effective primary prevention: systematic, comprehensive strategies to build resilience and to prevent illness and injury before they occur.

This session highlighted policy solutions and opportunities for advancing a health equity agenda.

Speaker: Ellen Wu, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

Ellen Wu, has been the Executive Director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) since 2001. CPEHN is a statewide health policy organization whose mission is to eliminate health disparities by advocating for public policies to improve the health of communities of color. Ellen received her Masters in Public Health from UCLA and is an adjunct faculty member at San Francisco State University.

This session focused on local and state-based initiatives and best practices for reducing racial and ethnic health disparities.

Speaker: Dr. Owen Garrick, Sinkler Miller Medical Association

Dr. Owen Garrick is Chief Operating Officer of Bridge Clinical Research. He has overall responsibility for the Clinical Trials and Investigator Training business units. Bridge CRO is the leading company focused on increasing the participation of ethnic minority investigators and patients in industry and institution sponsored clinical trials.

This session focused on local and state-based initiatives and best practices for reducing racial and ethnic health disparities.

Speaker: James Allen Crouch, California Rural Indian Health Board

James Allen Crouch, California Rural Indian Health Board, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is Executive Director of the Sacramento-based California Rural Indian Health Board, a position he has held since 1987. Mr. Crouch’s board affiliations include serving as a founding and now Emeritus member of the California Endowment Board, California’s largest Health foundation.

This session focused on local and state-based initiatives and best practices for reducing racial and ethnic health disparities.

Speaker: Dawn Mahi, Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Service

Dawn Mahi, Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, is the Health Through Action and Lei Hīpu'u Coordinator at Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

The keynote address focused on the national strategy to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities and a plan of action to achieve health equity.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Garth Graham, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service

Dr. Garth N. Graham, MD, MPH, FACP is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Office of Minority Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. He was previously appointed a White House Fellow and special assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Graham earned an M.D.

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*Recording and presentation slides of the Transgender Cultural Compe

A recording of the Grant Writing webinar that took place on April 15, 2011.

Grant Writing Recording

About This Webinar Series:
AIDS Project Los Angeles, C4H Project at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, and The California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center have formed a collaboration to enhance agencies' capacity to write stronger grant proposals.

*Recording and slides for the Money Matters Webinar Series, Part III: Financial Management for P