Health policy
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.
| Author: | APIAHF |
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| Published: | September 2011 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy |
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.
| Author: | APIAHF |
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| Published: | September 2011 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy |
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.
| Author: | APIAHF |
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| Published: | September 2011 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy |
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.
| Author: | APIAHF |
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| Published: | September 2011 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy |
| Author: | Policy and Advocacy |
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| Published: | September 2011 |
| Type: | Fact Sheet |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy » Data and research Health policy » Health care access Health policy Health policy » Health care quality Health policy » Health care reform |
In March 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law historic health care reform, a combination of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-152). These new laws will provide 32 million currently uninsured individuals with health insurance coverage, make health care more affordable, and improve the quality of health care provided.
| Author: | APIAHF |
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| Published: | August 2011 |
| Type: | Fact Sheet |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health advocacy Health policy |
| Author: | Policy and Advocacy |
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| Published: | August 2011 |
| Type: | Testimony and Comments |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy Health services |
| Author: | Policy and Advocacy |
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| Published: | August 2011 |
| Type: | Testimony and Comments |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health advocacy Health policy |
| Author: | Policy and Advocacy |
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| Published: | August 2011 |
| Type: | Testimony and Comments |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy Health services |
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The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) looks forward to the implementation of the federally-run Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) program. Disproportionately high rates of cancer, diabetes, and Hepatitis B persist within Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) populations. Compounding these disparities, 17% of Asian Americans and 21% of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are uninsured.
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