Upcoming Call!
October 2008 - Working with Data to Understand Adolescent Health Risk Disparities
Wednesday, October 15th, 3:00-4:30 p.m. ET
Register online. Presentation available for download, here.
This call will highlight an innovative project from Oregon that used data on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth (LGBTQ) to address health inequalities. The work was supported by data and assessment mini-grant funds from AMCHP. To learn more about AMCHP's DATA and Assessment Mini-Grant program, click here.
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Presenter Bio:
Sarah Knipper Ramowski, Adolescent Health & Policy Analyst from Oregon’s Public Health Division, will present the project on the call and discuss how the team analyzed and applied the data from the Oregon Healthy Teens Survey to address disparities among LGBTQ youth. She has a Masters in Social Work from Washington University with a health policy focus. In Oregon, her policy and analytical work are focused on School-Based Health Centers, adolescent sexual health, positive youth development, health care access, and adolescent brain development. She recently co-authored an article for the Journal of Youth Development on creating and analyzing an Oregon State Benchmark on positive youth development.
African American Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis and Planning for Action - April 4, 2008, 2-3:00 p.m. ET
Although rates of infection among African American women decreased by six percent between 2000 and 2003, they still account for a disproportionate number of new infections. In 2002 HIV infection was the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25–34 years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2005 Black women accounted for 67 percent of AIDS cases among women 13 and older. Furthermore, the AIDS case rate for Black women was 24 times the rate for white women. The call will feature a presentation from the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) to provide capacity-building assistance related to HIV prevention for women to health departments along with state highlights from Iowa and Michigan.
Call-In Information
Phone: 888-801-6499
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Speaker Bios
Call Resources
Presentations
HIV Prevention for Adolescent Females of Color - Jan. 15, 2008 3-4:30 p.m. EDT
Materials coming soon!