This September I have focused on the National Hispanic Health Foundation presence in our Leadership, Research and Education major activites:
Leadership -
The NHHF California Leadership Fellowship Washington, DC Institute brought together our Class of 2024 physicians to meet leaders from the Congress and US Department of Health and Human Services, Think Tanks - Cato Institute and the Center for American Progress, Prevention leaders from Tobacco Free Kids and FDA Center for Tobacco Products, partners for Diversity in Medicine: White House Hispanic American Education Initiative and HRSA, Women's Health: ACOG and ACS; as well as Leadership Skills - Federal Budget Process, Leadership Plans, Conflict Management and of course - executive leadership reflections for the end of the year-long program. Our Fellows were joined by the NHMA group this year and we look forward to presenting their Policy Analysis Team Projects at the 2025 NHMA Conference.
Research -
NHHF met with the APHA and the AAMC to develop partnerships for education and research - to increase diversity in public health and medicine. NHHF will be presenting at the APHA Annual Meeting on the CDC Diversity in the Public Health Workforce Campaign to increase Hispanics, Native Americans and African Americans in our local, state and federal government agencies. NHHF will be working with the AAMC to build its research faculty, resident and medical student directory for research career programming next year. We had a successful Clinical Research Webinar with EQBMED last week and continue to have expert Latino Clinical Trialists share their lessons learned on how to increase Latino participation.
Education-
NHHF advanced education of Congress Members and Staff with meetings and support for bills introduced this month including access and affordability, obesity in Medicare (TROA Act) and more. We met with the National Hispanic Leaders with Secretary Becerra at HHS to discuss our Health Care Priorities and called for increased representation, women's health protections, immigrant health, environmental health as well as increased access to care and mental health care.
