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We'd like to hear about your work!

Posted by: Julia Puebla Fortier on May 12, 2012 at 12:15 am

Posted In: Director's Notes

Do you have a health program or research project on culturally diverse patient populations that you'd like to share with your colleagues?

The Globalized Patient: conference presentation in Taiwan

Posted by: Julia Puebla Fortier on April 12, 2012 at 06:25 pm

Posted In: Director's Notes

I'm at the International Health Promoting Hospitals conference in Taipei, Taiwan this week and for the first time, immigrant and minority health was on the agenda for a plenary session. I was very pleased to give the presentation "The Globalized Patient: Adapting Health Systems for Mobile, Migrant and Minority Populations."

Vote for Multicultural Health -- April 10-13, 2012

Posted by: Julia Puebla Fortier on April 10, 2012 at 05:53 pm

Posted In: Director's Notes

Help put multicultural health on the list of the 20 great challenges facing health care!

Updates From Around the World

Posted by: Julia Puebla Fortier on December 07, 2011 at 11:37 am

Posted In: Director's Notes

From conferences to standards development to community language resources, the field of diversity and health is active around the world. Here is a sample:

Using peer groups to support behavior change: tell us your stories

Posted by: Julia Puebla Fortier on April 14, 2011 at 03:10 pm

Posted In: Director's Notes

On April 28, 2011, DiversityRx will be hosting a webinar, The Power of Peers: How Social Groups Can Drive Behavior Change for Health -- A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg

A treasure trove of good reading on health, culture, communication and more

Posted by: Julia Puebla Fortier on March 10, 2011 at 03:02 am

Posted In: Director's Notes

The New York Times has featured several good articles recently on health, culture, communication, and immigration:

Communicating About Health Disparities: Designing Messages That Stick

Posted by: divrx_admin on February 10, 2011 at 03:41 pm

Posted In: Your Voices

By Susan Choi

As the project manager of the Zero Disparities Committee at the Cambridge Health Alliance, I find myself spending a lot of time thinking about message design and framing.

If You Build It, Will They Come?

Posted by: Cindy Brach on January 24, 2011 at 05:56 pm

Posted In: Your Voices

At the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) we have gotten into the business of creating implementation tools. We finally realized that you can’t just publish research results and expect people to implement them.

DiversityRx 2010 -- Highlights from a Diversity Practitioner

Posted by: Anon on January 20, 2011 at 06:45 am

Posted In: Conference

By Mina Kini, Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Texas Health Resources

Diversity Training v. Cultural Competency Training

Posted by: Julia Puebla Fortier on January 18, 2011 at 02:17 pm

Posted In: Q&A

We get some great discussions on our CLAS-talk email discussion list and occasionally we share them here. They have been edited for brevity and clarity.

Questions

What are the differences between diversity training and education in cultural competency? How are these terms used and why does it matter?

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