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Minority Women's Health Panel of Experts
Introduction
The Office on Women's Health (OWH) established the Minority Women's Health Panel of Experts in response to its 1997 conference, "Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Partnerships to Improve Minority Women's Health." The panel is composed of physicians, clinicians, community advocates, and academicians working in communities and health settings around the country that serve racially and ethnically diverse women.
The five major ethnic groups (African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, and Hispanic) are represented among the panel members, who have expertise in a variety of disciplines, including young women's health, women and aging, health care delivery systems, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, mental health, substance abuse, breast/cervical cancer, diabetes, heart disease, immigrant/refugee women's health, public health research, cultural competency in women's health, and health policy.
The major focus of the panel is to ensure that the ethnic minority focus is incorporated throughout OWH programs, policies and initiatives by:
- Providing input to and serving as a resource for OWH, in support of its goals to improve the health of women and in the development of minority women's health initiatives; and
- Providing input to the department/secretarial initiatives, targeted to enhance the health of minority women in the United States.
Panel
Facilitators
Adrienne M. Smith, Ph.D., M.S., CHES
Public Health Advisor
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office on Women's Health
200 Independence Avenue, SW, Rm. 728F
Washington, DC 20201
Phone: 202-690-5884
Fax: 202-690-7172
Email: Adrienne.Smith@hhs.gov
Henrietta Terry
Public Health Advisor
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office on Women's Health
200 Independence Avenue, SW, Rm. 733E
Washington, D.C. 20201
Phone: 202-205-1952
Fax: 202-690-7172
E-mail: Henrietta.Terry@hhs.gov
Frances Ashe-Goins, R.N., M.P.H.
Deputy Director
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office on Women's Health
200 Independence Avenue, SW, Rm. 728E
Washington, D.C. 20201
Phone: 202-690-6373
Fax: 202-401-4005
E-mail: Frances.Ashe-Goins@hhs.gov
Members
Panel Chair
Vickie Mays, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
Professor/Director
University of California, Los Angeles
Departments of Psychology and Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health
UCLA Center for Research, Education,
Training and Strategic Communication
on Minority Health Disparities
405 Hilgard Avenue
1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563
Los Angeles, California 90095-1563
Phone: 310-206-5159
Fax: 310-206-5895
E-mail: mays@ucla.edu
Panel Vice Chair
Maria Gomez-Murphy, M.A., M.A.I.A., M.P.A.
President and CEO
The Way of the Heart: The Promotora Institute
1012 N Grand Ave., Suite 15
Nogales, AZ 85621
Alternate: 77 Camino Murphy
Rio Rico, AZ 85648
Phone: 520-440-4897
E-mail: mariagomezmurphy@gmail.com
Nancy Atmospera-Walch, R.N., B.S.N, Agnes Attakai, M.P.A. Dee Baldwin, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. Sharon E. Barrett, M.S., Ph.D.(c) Mia Barron, R.N., M.S.N. Yvonne Collins, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Nereida Correa, M.D., M.P.H. Rachele Donnell, R.N., N.R.E.M.T.-B Margaret Equopi Bate, M.S. Miriam Ibrahim, M.P.H., O.T., B.S. Lily Jung Henson, M.D., M.M.M., F.A.A.N. Onelia G. Lage, M.D. Erma Jean Lawson, R.N., Ph.D. Carolyn Lofgren Twila Martin Kekahbah, M.A. Nancy E. Norman, M.D., M.P.H. J. Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.F.P. |
Nicole Prudent, M.D., M.P.H. Gloria Sanchez, M.S., M.P.H., C.G.C Lola Sablan Santos María del Carmen Santos-Ortiz, Ph.D., C.H.E.S. Kelebogile Setiloane, Ph.D. Suganya Sockalingam, Ph.D. Nancy D. Soto Ora Lea Strickland, Ph.D., Sc.D. (Honorary), R.N., FA.A.N. Rosetta Swinton, R.N., F.C.N. Jacci Thompson-Dodd, M.A., M.S.S.S. Lillian Tom-Orme, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., F.A.A.N. Donna L. Washington, M.D., M.P.H. Gayle D. Weaver, Ph.D. Professor/Coordinator, Gerontology Program Director, Health, Mobility and Safety Lab College of Health and Human Services San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 Phone: 415-338-3558 Fax: 415-338-3556 E-mail: dyee@sfsu.edu |
Content last updated January 20, 2012.
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