NIMHD Director's Seminar Series

Presentation Objectives

• Purpose of the Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (IRINAH) funding mechanism
• Overview of nutrition-related disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native communities
• Review of selected IRINAH food system interventions to improve nutrition and related health outcomes
• Recommendations for future directions

Seminar Logistics

• The seminar will be videocast and available on this page and in the NIH Video archives after the presentation.
• Sign language interpreters will be provided

Presentation Objectives

• Explore the history of residential segregation
• Address the impact of residential segregation on social determinants of health
• Explore the health outcomes associated with residential segregation
• Understand the dissimilarity index.

Seminar Logistics

• The seminar will be videocast and available on this page and in the NIH Video archives after the presentation.
• Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request.
• Individuals who need reasonable accommod

Presentation Objectives

• Define massive open online interventions and digital apothecaries.
• Present the evidence base for the effectiveness of digital interventions to prevent and treat health conditions.
• Describe the essential difference between consumable and non-consumable interventions.
• Illustrate how four types of interventions that can be provided by digital apothecaries could contribute to making health care a universal human right.

Additional Information:

• The seminar will be videocast and made available in the NIH Video ar

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The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities is pleased to welcome Dr. Sandro Galea as the next NIMHD Director’s Seminar Series speaker. Dr. Galea will speak on “Health, Not Healthcare: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health.”

The objectives of Dr. Galea’s presentation will include an understanding of the following:

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities is pleased to welcome Dr. Denise Dillard as the next NIMHD Director’s Seminar Series speaker. Dr. Dillard will speak on “Genetic Research with Alaska Native People: Lessons and Future Possibilities.”

The objectives of Dr. Dillard’s presentation will include

Presentation Objectives

• The commodification of health care and health—treating them as goods for exchange in the marketplace—is pervasive in American health care, affecting the behavior of clinicians, clinical corporations, medical schools, manufacturers, insurers, investors, patients, governments, and scientists.
• All these groups possess unique attitudes, values, expectations, perceived needs, competencies, interests, and understandings of what health care has to offer.

Presentation Objectives

• Review the problem of care fragmentation and care coordination
• Describe the Comprehensive Care Physician (CCP) model
• Describe the Comprehensive Care, Community and Culture Program (C4P)
• Discuss opportunities to disseminate, implement and study the CCP and C4P models to address the needs of socioeconomically diverse populations more broadly

Seminar Logistics

• The seminar will be videocast and available on this page and in the NIH Video archives after the presentation.
• Sign language interpreters will

Presentation Objectives

• The impact of language barriers on clinical communication, patient experience and trust
• Recent research on the impact of language barriers and clinical outcome
• Set out research agenda in field

Seminar Logistics

• The seminar will be videocast and available on this page and in the NIH Video archives after the presentation.
• Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request.
• Individuals who need reasonable accommodation to participate should contact