Effective April 2018, Dr. Joedrecka Brown Speights will serve as Interim Chair of FMRH. Her passion is to reduce health care disparities and she helped develop programs for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine on ways to teach health care providers to reduce health care disparities, promote mentorship, and achieve health equity. This past year, she was chosen as an Inaugural 2017 Fellow for the Leaders for Health Equity Fellowship at George Washington University and was recently awarded FSU’s prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award for her record of scholarly and service work dedicated to the underserved.
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WASHINGTON, DC (November 16, 2017) – The George Washington University’s (GW) Health Workforce Institute, which is based at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH), announces the 2018 fellows of the year-long Leaders for Health Equity (LHE) Fellowship program. The program honors health sector professionals with a commitment to health equity and demonstrated leadership potential. This year’s fellows, the second class in the program, were selected from a competitive group of applicants from all over the United States and other countries.
“We are delighted with the experience, diversity, and mission commitment of this class of LHE Fellows,” says Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, the Co-Director of the LHE program and Professor of Health Policy and Management at GW’s Milken Institute SPH. “They have great promise to make health systems not only better but fairer during their year as Fellows and long into their careers. They are multidisciplinary leaders who will advance health workforce equity in their communities, institutions, neighborhoods, and countries.” The LHE fellowship is part of a broader network of programs at the GW Health Workforce Institute funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies to promote health equity by identifying, connecting, and preparing leaders, and to promote social mission in health professions education and practice. The five-year project will train health-related professionals in the basics of health equity so that they are well-versed in strategies that can be deployed to reduce health disparities among vulnerable populations. In addition to fellows based in the United States, the cohort includes health professionals from Ethiopia, India, Sierra Leone, Argentina and the Philippines “We are excited about this extraordinary group of fellows and the continued development of a network of leaders in health equity” says Guenevere Burke, MD, Co-Director of the LHE and Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management and Emergency Medicine at GW. The cohort includes leaders with expertise in law, economics, medicine, dentistry, and nursing. The following 16 professionals are the 2018 Leaders for Health Equity Fellows: 2018 LHE FELLOWSView bios here.
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GW's Health Workforce Research Center (HWRC) received renewed funding over five years from the U.S. Bureau of the Health Professions. The Cooperative Agreement from the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA) in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services will allow the GW HWRC to focus their research on emerging workforce topics relating to Title VII of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).
LHE Fellowship Leads to Collaboration between Duke University and the University of São Paulo8/1/2017 The Duke University School of Nursing Office of Global and Community Health Affairs sponsored Dr. Carla Ventura, as a visiting professor to present a Health and Human Rights lecture to the “Exploring Global Patterns of health and Illness” elective offered during summer intercession. During this visit Drs. Carter and Ventura, George Washington University Leaders for Health Equity Fellows, created a syllabus for an in-person synchronous elective using web-based technology between Duke University School of Nursing (Durham, NC) and Universidade de Sao Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirao Preto (Brazil). The course entitled, "Brazil/United States Health Equity Connection: The Professional Nurse Role in Understanding Human Development Information", will be a synchronous course using a platform that will provide visuals of both classrooms. This will give students the ability to communicate in the broader classroom. There will be small group breakout sessions using laptops supported by web-based technology. This is the first of many discussed collaborations between the fellows and the universities.
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