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Master of Public Health and the Society of Public Health Advocates (SOPHA) present

National Public Health Week Event Series
April 5-8, 2016


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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

6:30pm – 8:30pm: GLOBAL HEALTH GOALS NEAR AND FAR
Location:Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, 270-05 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, Teaching Center #2 and #3
Description: Global health initiatives aim to improve the health and wellbeing of impoverished, vulnerable, and medically underserved people worldwide. These initiatives include poverty reduction strategies, disease prevention efforts (e.g. immunization), promotion of healthy nutrition and food security, environmental protection policies, improvement of living conditions, and the promotion of gender equality. Many of the challenges targeted through these initiatives can be found among populations in low-income countries as well as in the United States. Globally-mobile populations, such as undocumented immigrants, new immigrants and isolated immigrant communities, struggle to access health services to address long-standing health conditions, as well as newly acquired health-related problems. This session will explore the barriers to access and utilization of appropriate, comprehensive and affordable health care among the medically underserved around the globe, and right here in New York City and Long Island.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

9:00am – 3:30pm: MISSION CRITICAL: VETERANS HEALTH SUMMIT
Location: Axinn Library, 10th Floor, South Campus
Description: This conference will bring together lawyers, public health professionals, Veterans, clinicians, researchers and other service providers, to discuss the provision, promotion and availability of health services for Long Island's Veteran population. It will focus on mental health services, in particular, and will consider strategies for improving access to as well as the delivery, integration, and promotion of such services.
2:20pm – 3:45pm: EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Location: Greenhouse Room, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Description: This interactive and creative workshop will address important and often taboo topics important for all college students. These include consent, safer sex and sexual assault prevention. Additionally, on-site testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections will be provided by Planned Parenthood.
6:30pm – 8:20pm: INTEGRATING THE CLINICAL SECTOR WITH COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS: THE PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF THE NEW YORK DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM INITIATIVE PAYMENT (DSRIP) PROJECT
Location: Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Description: New York received an $8 billion Medicaid 1115 waiver in April 2014 from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as a delivery system reform initiative payment (DSRIP). Provider networks will receive DSRIP funding to implement projects that transform New York’s Medicaid delivery system and meet a number of accountability metrics. Central to the New York DSRIP project is a population health emphasis that stresses a Medicaid delivery system where community-based organizations (CBOs) and providers collaborate to provide Medicaid patients with health care and social services throughout the community.  During this session, distinguished panelists, serving on the front lines of DSRIP implementation, will describe the New York DSRIP project, focusing on promises and challenges of reforming New York’s Medicaid delivery system to one where providers and community-based health and health care organizations work in concert to improve patient and population health.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

9:35am – 11:00am – POLITICS OF BIG FOOD AND BIG SODA: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. MARION NESTLE
Location: Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Description: Junk food and soda have long been known to be leading factors in causing obesity, diabetes, dental disease, and other health problems that plague Americans; yet they remain multi-billion dollar companies with a global reach.  Dr. Marion Nestle, world-renowned for her research examining scientific and socioeconomic influences in food choice and the impact of the immense lobbying power in the food industry, will outline both the challenges and winning strategies (including taxes on sodas, removing sodas from schools and restricting marketing to children, excluding sodas from food stamps, and limiting the sizes of drinks sold) and call for a greater investment by companies and communities in promoting sports and outdoor entertainment, healthy alternatives to sugary drinks, and more nutrition research.
11:10am – 12:35pm: INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDENT FILM COMPETITION: HEALTHY PEOPLE 2020 GOALS
Location: Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Description: Teams of students from different programs across Hofstra University will compete for best short video addressing the following topics:  early and middle childhood, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) health, injury and violence prevention, mental health and mental disorders, nutrition and weight status, oral health, preparedness, and sleep health. These issues are included among the goals of Healthy People 2020, an initiative by the federal government aimed at improving the health of all Americans.  A professional panel of judges will award cash prizes to the winning videos.  A special award will be granted to the team who earns the “audience favorite film” vote.
12:45pm – 2:45pm: NASSAU COUNTY MINORITY HEALTH FAIR
Location: Multipurpose Room, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Description: The 3rd Annual Nassau County Minority Health Fair aims to increase awareness of chronic diseases and how to prevent them among local minority communities.  Increasing awareness of diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and HIV/AIDS is an important goal for the Nassau County Bureau of Minority Health, the Nassau County Department of Health and Hofstra University’s Master of Public Health program whom together aim to support the health of all residents of Nassau County. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with health professionals from local health and community-based organizations; participate in mini health promotion workshops; obtain voluntary hearing, blood pressure, vision, dental and HIV screenings; sign up for affordable health insurance; and observe exercise and healthy food demonstrations.  Free food, fun prizes and key information will be provided.
4:30pm – 6:20pm: LIVING WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY IN NASSAU COUNTY
Location: Plaza Room West, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Description: This event will focus on opportunities for addressing the needs and interests of people living with developmental disabilities in Nassau County.  Designed to be both informative and action-oriented, this session will include panelists from multiple sectors, including consumers, providers, funders and researchers.  Specific topics that will be discussed include accessing services and housing; meaningful higher education and employment; and evolution of government programs.
7:00pm – 9:30pm: INVITATION ONLY: A DECADE OF BUILDING HEALTH EQUITY IN SUFFOLK COUNTY: UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO UNIQUE SUBURBAN CHALLENGES
Description: This event is by invitation only. Suffolk County launched the Office of Minority Health (OMH) in December of 2005. This celebration will include an agenda that is reflective of the mission and goals of the SCOMH.  Representatives from the community will present on their experiences collaborating with the SCOMH over the past 10 years and colleagues from within Suffolk, from neighboring Nassau County and from New York State will offer commentary on SCOMH’s achievements breaking down barriers and building up communities, particularly with respect to hard to reach populations such as Native Americans and those residing in the most rural areas of Suffolk.  The event will also provide an opportunity for celebrating cultural diversity and connecting community members with the Hofstra community including students, faculty, alumni and staff.

Friday, April 8, 2016

9:00am – 11:00am: EXERCISE AS MEDICINE: STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES FOR COLLABORATION
Location: Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus
Description: Organizations such as the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the Medical Fitness Association (MFA), and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) have become key advocates for promoting collaboration amongst healthcare providers (e.g., physicians, physical therapists, public health activists) and exercise professionals. This presentation will focus on several of the collaborative approaches developed by these organizations (e.g., ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine campaign), certifications and credentials for public health advocates interested in promoting physical activity and exercise (e.g., Physical Activity in Public Health Specialist), and introduce attendees to physical activity recommendations for healthy and special populations. This presentation will conclude with a case study session discussing the practical application of exercise to special populations (e.g., pulmonary conditions, children, obese individuals), including risk factor modification and contraindications to exercise, as well as hot topics that have necessitated a collaborative approach between healthcare and exercise professionals (e.g., addressing the obesity epidemic, head trauma in athletes).
12:30pm – 2:30pm: TE ESCUCHAMOS! ENTERATE Y APRENDE COMO INCLUIR A LA COMUNIDAD LATINA EN ACTIVIDADES PARA PROMOVER LA SALUD (WE HEAR YOU! LISTENING AND LEARNING HOW TO ENGAGE THE LATINO COMMUNITY IN HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES)
Location: Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus
Description: The Latino population is one of the largest and fastest-growing minorities in the United States at 17.4% today and expected to double to more than 30% by 2050. Originating from more than 20 different countries, the Latino population also differs widely in terms of how long they have resided in the US and in terms of their access to and interaction with the health care system. In 2015, Northwell Health’s Department of Medicine embarked on an innovative strategy to build bridges between health providers, researchers and the Latino community. The mission of El Poder de Decidir is to empower individuals and communities in the New York City area about choices concerning their health and well-being by providing them with the knowledge and skills needed to recognize the resources available to them and how these resources can help them with their health decision-making. This lunchtime roundtable will bring together community members, community organizations, health providers and public health professionals to learn about Northwell Health’s efforts as well as other promising strategies for increasing engagement of Latinos in health promotion, health care and health research.

For more information on the event, contact Nicolle Tumminelli via email or 516-463-6467


Visit the student Society of Public Health Advocates (SOPHA) table in the
Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center Atrium
April 6-8, 10:00am – 3:00pm
to join health promotion activities and receive educational health materials.

A special thanks to our sponsors. Your generosity truly makes a difference.

A special thanks to our sponsors. Your generosity truly makes a difference.