New Cultural Competency E-Forum

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<p>Last month, The Commonwealth Fund hosted the roundtable, "Cultural Competency: Understanding the Present and Setting Future Directions," in New York City to bring together researchers, providers, policymakers, advocates, and other stakeholders to discuss future directions for cultural competency research, practice, and measurement.<br><br>Now hear what the participants had to say by viewing the Fund's <a href="/cnlib/pub/enews_clickthrough.htm?enews_item_id=22242&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecmwf%2Eorg%2Ftopics%2Ftopics%5Fshow%2Ehtm%3Fdoc%5Fid%3D373785%26%23doc373785">E-Forum.</a> The E-Forum offers audio and slides from an introduction by the Fund's Underserved Program Director Anne Beal, M.D., and from the following presenters:<br><br><ul><li>Mary Catherine Beach, M.D, M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine</li><li>Joseph Betancourt, M.D., The Disparities Solution Center</li><li>Tawara Goode, M.A. and Clare Dunne, M.S.W., National Center for Cultural Competence</li><li>Quyen Ngo-Metzger, M.D., M.P.H., University of California, Irvine, and Joseph Telfair, Dr. PH., M.S.W., University of Alabama at Birmingham</li><li>Ellen Wu, M.P.H., California Pan-Ethnic Health Network</li></ul><br><br>The Fund will publish several papers based on the presentations over the next year.<br><br>Please give us your feedback on this and other E-Forums by taking a short <a href="http://64.73.28.22/s.asp?u=367761685595">online survey.</a></p>

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/ealerts/2006/may/new-cultural-competency-e-forum