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USC Provost’s Retreat on Health Institutional and Community Responses to Health Disparities LaVonna Blair Lewis, PhD, MPH llewis@usc.edu 213.740.4280. Current Projects. One Institutional Response to Health Disparities: MHA Diversity in Healthcare Leadership Initiative
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USC Provost’s Retreat on Health Institutional and Community Responses to Health Disparities LaVonna Blair Lewis, PhD, MPH llewis@usc.edu 213.740.4280
Current Projects • One Institutional Response to Health Disparities: • MHA Diversity in Healthcare Leadership Initiative • One Community Response to Health Disparities: • African American Building a Legacy of Health Project (AABLH)
I. MHA Diversity in Healthcare Leadership Initiative Three core goals: • Increase awareness of health administration, policy and management as a viable career choice through networking and outreach • Summer/Winter Enrichment Programs integrating academic and professional elements • Ongoing mentoring and graduate school application support
Overall Goal: Five or more of each year’s participants successfully apply to a master of health administration degree program. To date, 12 out of 37 participants have already started Masters Programs
II. AABLH: Developing The Community Action Plan (CAP) 1999-2000 Participants included state and local government agencies, civil rights organizations, religious organizations, health care providers, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and community members All wanted to increase awareness among African Americans about health related issues—CVD and diabetes All willing to commit staff, time, and other resources to the project
Three Strategic Directions • Recreating Community Norms Through Community Education (5 Interventions) • Creating Economic Parity Through Community Development (3 Interventions) • Supporting Policy and Institutional Change Through Community Empowerment (1 Intervention) • Researchers Bring: Bench knowledge • Communities Bring: Trench knowledge • We need both to effectively address health disparities