The latest interview from the Health Out Loud Pocast Series is now online.  Domenic Screnci, Ed.D. is the Executive Director for Educational Media and Technology at Boston University. He also co-directs Boston University’s new online Master of Science Health Communications Program. Dr. Screnci has 30 years experience in the field of biocommunications and serves as an educational technologist, instructional systems designer and integrator, instructional designer and a producer of curriculum materials for traditional and new media based educational projects. In this Health Literacy Out Loud podcast, he talks with Helen Osborne about visual literacy. http://tinyurl.com/dax7jj

Topics include:

• What visual literacy is and how it relates to health literacy
• Ways visual literacy helps readers interact with information
• How to adapt visuals to meet the needs of specific audiences

Community Based Cancer-Control: A Seminar for American Indian and Alaska Native Community Health Advocates
March 8-13, 2009
Portland Oregon

All communities have unmet health needs. Sometimes it is hard to determine exactly what those needs are, and often it is hard to get programs funded. Researchers can help quantify health needs, but there is frequently a disconnect between what the community wants and what the researcher wants. That’s where a partnership between research and communities can help.

The goal of this program is to provide community members with the tools to approach researchers, identify research questions, write grants and collaborate on projects that address cancer health disparities.  This training seminar is open to tribal community members with an interest in improving cancer prevention, screening, and treatment in his or her community. Throughout the week, participants will become familiar with elements of writing a winning community-based grant. Seminar topics will cover the following grant-writing basics: where to locate funding sources, how to establish grant-writing goals and objectives, how to develop a budget, and more.

Successful applicants receive a scholarship covering travel, hotel, per diem meal allowance, and course materials.
Applications are due by February 6, 2009.

Please contact Jessica Kennedy and she can get an application form to you. Ms. Kennedys e-mail address is blarjesj@ohsu.edu and her phone number is (503) 494-1126.

[posted on CBPR listserv]

Public Librarians Response to Hurricanes: Lessons, Issues and Strategies
Lecture and Webcast
February 20, 2009 12:30 - 2:30
http://ci.fsu.edu/news/?p=1363

The five panel experts have had “hands on” experience in assisting libraries plan for and respond to hurricanes.  As such they are assisting the Information Institute in completing a study that will identify public library best practices in hurricane preparedness and response, create a web portal to organize and access a broad range of information that can be of assistance to public librarians and local communities regarding hurricanes, and provide training to public libraries for how best to use this website and the various materials generated by the study.  Detailed background information about the study, its goals, funding, activities, can be found at: http://www.ii.fsu.edu/news_detail.cfm?newsID=62 The program will also be webcast with access instructions to be announced on the College of Information webpage at http://www.ci.fsu.edu/.

Health Information Outreach and Community Engagement:  Lessons Learned from the Experts
Thursday, February 12, 2009 / 2 – 3:30 PM
Engaging your community with health information outreach projects is rewarding, meaningful work. Come learn from the experiences of experts in health information outreach and community engagement. Each speaker has led a successful health information outreach subcontract from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine/ New England Region. The program is intended for anyone interested in pursuing funding or learning more about how to engage the local community in effective health information outreach.
Registration is free and on a first come, first serve basis.  Session will be limited to fifty participants.
To register, please contact Martha Pearson at martha.pearson@umassmed.edu.
In your email please include:
•    Name
•    Institution / address with zip code / phone / e-mail
•    Name of the program (Health Information Outreach and Community Engagement:  Lessons Learned from the Experts).

“Update on PubMed”
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009
1:00 MT, 2:00 CT.
“Spotlight! on National Library of Medicine Resources” is a new series of classes presented by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region!  We’re focusing on the “spotlight” aspect - choosing limited databases on which to focus, and practice time with exercises in each monthly session. And the first is the ” Update on PubMed” This online training is FREE, and requires no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. All classes can be accessed by going to https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr. The series is targeted for the fourth Wednesday each month. Upcoming dates and topics include: Feb. 25 -MedlinePlus and the Household Products Database., March 25 - Educational Resources for Kids, and April 22 - Drug Resources. We hope to “see” you there!

http://tinyurl.com/d9334o
On Tuesday, February 24, at 2pm ET, the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools is hosting a webinar regarding how to help refugee and immigrant students achieve success in school. The webinar “will highlight successful strategies for supporting the mental health needs of immigrant and refugee students, focusing on engaging the family, which is often a close-knit and protective force in the child’s life. Immigrant and refugee students face challenges to learning beyond mastering a new language. The strategies to be presented were identified through the Caring Across Communities initiative, a series of innovative partnerships among schools, mental health service providers, and immigrant and refugee community organizations in 15 communities around the country, supported by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.”
To register for the webinar, visit: https://rwjf.webex.com/rwjf/j.php?ED=117141422&RG=1&UID=0.
For more information about the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, see http://www.healthinschools.org.

“Our World, Our Community:  Building Bridges for Health Equality”

View the Internet and satellite broadcast of the 11th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, by Barbara Wallace, Ph.D., Professor of Health Education at Columbia University, on Friday, February 27, 2009 at 2:00pm-3:30pm EST.  The lecture is the highlight of the 30th Annual UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Health Conference, presented by the School’s Minority Student Caucus on that day.  The broadcast will include a live call-in question-and-answer session with Dr. Wallace.

For information about the broadcast and about registering for or exhibiting at the full day’s Conference in person at the UNC Friday Center for Continuing Education, please visit http://www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2009/ [posted on [mhpannounce]

Race and Class Inequalities in Health
There will be a contributed paper session on Race and Class Inequalities in Health at the annual Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) meeting in 2009.  Meeting dates are June 23-26, 2008 in Anaheim, CA Accepted abstracts will be distributed at the June meeting and will also be published in a Supplement issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Abstracts must be submitted online at the following web address: http://epiresearch.org/ [click on Annual meeting - abstract submission form will be available within the next week] Submissions will be accepted until February 2, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST. For inquiries about this specific session on Race and Class Inequalities in Health, contact Irene Yen (irene.yen@ucsf.edu) or Pat O’Campo (pat.ocampo@utoronto.ca) [posted on CBPR list]

2009 Upper Midwest Translators and Interpreters Association (UMTIA) Conference
Interpreting and Translations: The Profession from All Angles
St. Paul, MN
Call for Papers
http://www.umtia.org/
[posted on CLAS-talk list]

Sixth Annual Pediatric Multidisciplinary Research and Evidence-Based Practice Conference
Pediatric Research: Caring Within a Safe Environment
April 17, 2009
Eric P. Newman Education Center
St. Louis, Missouri
Call for Abstracts
St. Louis Children’s Hospital will present its Sixth Annual Research and Evidence-Based Practice Conference on Friday, April 17, 2009. We welcome abstracts from all health care professionals caring for neonates, children or families. All abstracts and proposals should be submitted by Feb. 9, 2009, via e-mail to:
Karen Balakas, PhD, RN, CNE
Associate Professor & Director, Clinical Research Partnerships
Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College
KaBalakas@bjc.org
314.454.8790
[posted on MCMLA list]

North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Mobilizing Knowledge: Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
June 3-5, 2009 in Washington DC
Call for Abstracts Due Jan 15
http://www.nationalaidshousing.org/PDF/CFA.pdf
The US National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC), working in collaboration with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and the Department of Health, Behavior and Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is pleased to announce the fourth Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit, a meeting of leading health, housing and social service researchers and policy makers. The Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit series is an interdisciplinary, interactive forum for the presentation of  research findings on the relationship of housing status and HIV prevention and care, coupled with dialogue on public policy implications and strategies among researchers, policy makers, and providers and consumers of HIV housing and services. [ posted on Cbpr listserv]

Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) 2009 Conference
Latinos in the Heartland
http://www.cambiodecolores.org
May 18-20, 2009
Millennium Center
University of Missouri - St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 23rd, 2009.
The full Call for Abstracts is available in the Web, at the following address:
http://www.cambiodecolores.org/2009/Documents/2009CallForAbstracts.htm
Cambio de Colores is an annual conference that, since 2002, brings together researchers, practitioners, and community members to discuss the issues that Missouri and Heartland states face as a result of the demographic changes that became evident in the 2000 Census. The 2009 meeting will be a multi-state conference.  For this occasion, the  University of Missouri’s Cambio Center is working in cooperation with the twelve-state North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, and the Immigrants in Midwestern Communities Inter University Network.

2009 Public Health Preparedness Summit
Public health preparedness professionals from across the nation will share innovative best practices, tools, and resources to help you build and sustain your community’s capacity to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a public health emergency or disaster. http://www.phprep.org/2009/?CFID=2487407&CFTOKEN=48417005

This three-day summit attempted to showcase the collective contribution of NIH in the development of new knowledge in the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities; highlight the progress of NIH minority health and health disparities research activities to improve prevention, diagnostic, and treatment methods; increase awareness and understanding of disparities in health; showcase best-practice models in research, capacity-building, outreach, and integrated strategies to find solutions to health disparities; and identify gaps in health disparities research. View the webcast  at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=3091