The Latino Center for Health is pleased to sponsor Dr. America Bracho‘s visit to the UW Seattle campus. Please join us on Thursday, November 1st (4:00pm to 5:30pm) at Magnuson Health Sciences Building lecture hall T-747 (1959 NE Pacific St.) to learn from this internationally renowned expert on “Preparing the Health Workforce to Improve Latinx health.”
Dr. America Bracho is internationally recognized for her leadership at Latino Health Access (LHA), a center for health promotion and disease prevention located in Santa Ana, California. In this presentation, Dr. Bracho will share her insights on the preparation needed, including how to partner with communities, to prepare the health workforce to take on current and future challenges in health.
Dr. Bracho was a physician in her native Venezuela, and later earned a Masters in Public Health at the University of Michigan. She consults for the Pan American Health Organization, and serves on the Group Health Foundation’s board and on the Board of Trustees for Casey Family Programs.
Dr. Bracho is co-author of the book “Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain: The work of Latino Health Access.”
America Bracho’s Ted Talk: https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=75778
Q&A at TedMed: http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Global/Videos/Harvey-Fineberg-TEDMED.aspx
Bill Moyers Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqdNOo9SDY
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Contact latcntr@uw.edu for more information.
