Community Health Workers Advancing Population Health Equity & Promoting Structural Competency

Presenters:

Nadia Islam, Ph.D., Deputy Director of Research, NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine.
Rucha Kavathe, Ph.D. Community Health Worker, United Sikhs

At the conclusion of the presentation, the participants will be able to:

Recognize the community health worker model
Describe how community health worker approaches advance population health equity and structural competence
Describe how community health workers are relevant for the Asian American population
Explain how community health workers improve health and well-being in Asian American communities

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Note: Medically Underserved Populations may include groups of persons who face economic, cultural or linguistic barriers to health care.

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Learning Outcome
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“Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health professionals who have an unusually close understanding of the communities they serve through shared ethnicity, culture, language, and life experiences. CHW approaches have been increasingly advocated as a mechanism to improve the health of minority and underserved populations, particularly in the current healthcare context. In this presentation, Drs. Islam and Kavathe will describe how the CHW model advances population health equity and structural competence by engaging in context-driven health promotion and prevention, addressing social determinants of health, and enhancing community capacity and leadership. They will share their experience of implementing and evaluating CHW approaches across diverse Asian American communities in New York City, and highlight a specific case study from the South Asian community.”

Objectives/Learner's achievement of each objective
As a result of this educational activity, I am able to:

Recognize the community health worker model *

Describe how community health worker approaches advance population health equity and structural competence *

Describe how community health workers are relevant for the Asian American population *

Explain how community health workers improve health and well-being in Asian American communities *

Presenters

Presenter 1
Nadia Islam, Ph.D., Deputy Director of Research, NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine.

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Teaching strategies were appropriate for topic *

Teaching by this presenter was effective *

Presenter 2
Rucha Kavathe, Ph.D. Community Health Worker, United Sikhs

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Teaching by this presenter was effective *

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