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Health Disparities Webinars and Seminars

Webinars

Smoking Cessation Interventions with Behavioral Health Populations

A webinar from the APA Health Disparities Office Held on May 4, 2017, featuring Erik Auguston, PhD, Anita Smith Everett, MD and Doug Tipperman, MSW. This webinar was designed to inform mental health care providers about the intersection of smoking and mental health concerns, the importance of screening and assessing patients for smoking cessation, and an understanding of a few cessation treatment approaches. Approaches and perspectives are provided by a medical doctor, social worker, psychologist and a patient.

Extending Your Reach: Techniques to Disseminating Effective Health Messages

A webinar from the APA Health Disparities Office held on April 7, 2015, featuring Wendy Opsahl, PhD, vice president of Communications at Atlas Research. The webinar focused on dissemination and implementation, offered effective techniques and strategies to share health information and encouraged participants to develop dissemination and implementation action plans.

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Eliminating Health Disparities by Advancing Health Equity

The Health Disparities Strategic Program held a webinar entitled, "Eliminating Health Disparities by Advancing Health Equity" on Aug. 21, 2014, presented by Brian Smedley, PhD, of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and a member of APA's National Steering Committee on Health Disparities. Smedley is a nationally recognized expert on the history, causes and effects of health disparities in vulnerable populations.
What’s Smoking Got to Do With It? Improving the Health of Priority Populations by Treating Tobacco Use

APA's Health Disparities Office teamed with the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center to co-sponsor "What's Smoking Got to Do with It? Improving the Health of Priority Populations by Treating Tobacco Useopens in new window," a webinar featuring H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, (Santa Clara University and former director, CSAT/SAMHSA). Clark described smoking in health priority populations, including prevalence and risk factors; discussed why professionals may not attend to smoking in these populations and the consequences of not doing so; and identified effective evidence-based practices.

Seminars

Seminar on Health Disparities in Boys and Men: Influence of Masculinity on Health Disparities and Equity

APA sponsored the Seminar on Health Disparities in Boys and Men: Influence of Masculinity on Health Disparities and Equityopens in new window in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Aging. Speakers were Wizdom Powell, PhD, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Waldo Johnson, PhD, MSW, (University of Chicago), APA's Health Disparities in Boys and Men Working Group chair and member, respectively.

APA Health Disparities Office seminar featuring Columbia University psychologist Carl Hart, PhD

A Critical Analysis of Drug Laws, Interventions and Policy Based on Research and Life Experiences, presented by Carl Hart, PhD, author of “High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.”

Date created: 2015