Outcomes in Healthcare - Lessons from WHANAU ORA
Cynthia Kiro, PhD
Head of the School of Public Health at Massey University New Zealand
Thursday, April 12, 2012
12:30-1:30 p.m. FXB G-13
Whanau Ora, is an outcomes oriented, integrated approach to healthcare. It encompasses a family based service that addresses psycho-social needs of patients. This originates from an indigenous model of care that supersedes the current fragmented and silo approach to healthcare. Consideration will be given to how the current health system deals with the health of indigenous populations in New Zealand and Hawaii and whether this offers a way forward for organizing primary and community based health services for all populations. This lecture will explore how we might construct a modern primary and public health system that is responsive to these values and culture, while incorporating the best that health services has to offer.
About the speaker:
Associate Professor Cynthia (Cindy) Kiro is the Head of the School of Public Health at Massey University New Zealand, having returned following her term as Childrens Commissioner from 2003-2009, where she was the statutory advocate for children and young people. Prior to this she held positions with the National Health Committee, Public Health Advisory Committee, the Health Funding Authority and as General Manager in the countrys largest health authority; the Auckland District Health Board. She has worked for over 20 years in the health sector in a wide range of community organisations promoting indigenous wellbeing, and the wellbeing and safety of children and young people. Cindy has a PhD in Health Policy and works in the areas of childrens health and wellbeing, indigenous health, health systems and health policy.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at Harvard School of Public Health
The Communication Revolution and Health Inequalities in the 21st Century: Promises and Pitfalls
The radical and transformative developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) offer unprecedented opportunities to enhance population and individual health. At the same time, given the current context in which these technologies are being deployed and used -- inequities that characterize health AND communications across different social groups –race and ethnicity, social class, and nations raises important questions for public health research, policy and practice. This presentation will characterize communication inequalities, link them to health inequalities and offer exemplar solutions to address the inequalities.
K. “Vish” Viswanath, PhD
Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
2:30-3:30 p.m. FXB G-12
About the speaker:
K “Vish” Viswanath is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and in the Center for Community-Based Research (CCBR) at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). His primary research is in documenting the relationship between communication inequalities, poverty and health disparities. He has written more than 120 journal articles and book chapters concerning communication inequalities and health disparities, public health communication campaigns, e-health and digital divide, public health preparedness and the delivery of health communication interventions to underserved populations. He is the Co-Editor of three books: Mass Media, Social Control and Social Change (Iowa State University Press, 1999), Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research & Practice (Jossey Bass, 2008), and The Role of Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use (National Cancer Institute, 2008). He was also the Editor of the Social and Behavioral Research section of the 12-volume International Encyclopedia of Communication (Blackwell Publishing, 2008). In recognition of his academic and professional achievements, Dr. Viswanath received several awards including, Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award (2010) jointly given out by the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association and the Mayhew Derryberry Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) for his contribution to health education research and theory (2009).
The event is sponsored by the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at Harvard School of Public Health
Building the evidence base for health-enhancing built environments: work in progress in Australia
Billie Giles-Corti, PhD
NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
Director of the Melbourne University School of Population Health, McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
an INFORMAL REPORTBACK on the
WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS
(RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 19-21 OCTOBER 2011)
Professor Nancy Krieger - October 28th
