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Culture & Health Among Hispanics
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Culture & Health Among Hispanics -- Cynthia M. Juarez

Name: 
Cynthia M. Juarez
Institution: 
TTUHSC
Website: 
Office of Continuing Medical Education
Phone: 
915-215-4930
Address: 
4801 Alberta Ave, El Paso, TX 79905
Latitude: 
31.7731445
Longitude: 
-106.4344219
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Culture & Health Among Hispanics -- Bernadette Segura

Name: 
Bernadette Segura
Institution: 
Texas Rio Grande Legal AID
Website: 
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc.
Phone: 
915-585-5100
Address: 
1331 Texas Ave. El Paso, TX 79901
Latitude: 
31.7663496
Longitude: 
-106.4758128
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Description

The Culture & Health interdisciplinary Community of Practice will address specific public health issues and how they relate to features of culture that influence health status and outcomes. We are a research-based community that creates and shares collaborative knowledge and tools, such as assessments and interventions. Our group facilitates dialogue and connection building and potentiates research collaborations to engage community stakeholders, create new data, and develop group publications and proposals.

Aspirations

The Culture and Health among Hispanics Community of Practice will bring together an interdisciplinary body of researchers and practitioners with the vision of disseminating resources and materials, influencing practice, providing training and outreach opportunities, and generating sustainable funding through collaborative research projects.

KEYWORDS

  1. Community Health
  2. Culture & Ethnicity
  3. Health Disparities & Inequities
  4. Health Status & Health Outcomes

UTEP STRATEGIC AREAS

  1. Education for the 21st Century Demographic

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Field, Craig
Advocate
Associate Professor
Liberal Arts - Psychology
alcohol use disorders, clinical trials of motivational interviewing/health behavior interventions, culture and health, Health Disparities/Inequities, public health/health psychology
Featured: Awards

Martinez, Antonio
Advocate
Staff
Center/Other Units - Latino Alcohol and Health Disparities Research Center (LAHDR)
alcohol, Brief Motivational Interventions, implementation, public health, strength-based interventions

Concha, Jeannie
Member
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences - Public Health Sciences
cultural health beliefs, Hispanic health disparities, mental health, stress, type 2 diabetes
Featured: Awards

Eno Louden, Jennifer
Member
Associate Professor
Liberal Arts - Psychology
community corrections, criminal justice, mental health stigma, mental illness, trauma
Featured: Awards

Ferreira-Pinto, Joao
Member
Associate Professor
Health Sciences - Center for Interdisciplinary Health Research and Evaluation (CIHRE)
evaluation research, HIV/AIDS prevention, Opioids and prescription pills abuse prevention and treatment-, Program Evaluation, qualitative research
Featured: Awards

MEMBERS FROM PARTNER INSTITUTIONS
Juarez, Cynthia M.  (View)
Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso
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Segura, Bernadette  (View)
Texas Rio Grande Legal AID
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Related Efforts

Latino Alcohol & Health Disparities Research Center
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Craig Field
Website

The mission of the Latino Health Disparities Research (LAHDR) is to foster interdisciplinary research and training through the dissemination of health behavior change interventions among Hispanics on the US-Mexico border to promote improved health outcomes. LAHDR will contribute to the University of Texas at El Paso’s mission of conducting interdisciplinary research in health and social sciences and vision of becoming a Tier 1 research institution.

Culture & Health Distribution List
UTEP Resource
Document
Antonio Martinez
Resource Link

On this list you will find individuals who have participated in our first meeting or are interested in participating in future meetings. Please let us know if any of the fields on this sheet need to be modified.

Culture & Health Brief Survey
UTEP Resource
Data
Antonio Martinez
Resource Link

We are interested in getting feedback from our members on the description, aspiration, and other a characteristics of this group. Please provide us your input.

Building a Community of Practice Workshop Slides
UTEP Resource
Document
Antonio Martinez
Resource Link

The purpose of this session is to conceptualize the scope of interests for the emerging Community of Practice on Culture and Health.

IDRE Report Handouts 04.07.17
UTEP Resource
Document
Related Effort: Latino Alcohol & Health Disparities Research Center
Antonio Martinez
Resource Link

2017 IDRE Week Culture & Heath Community of Practice Handouts

DIALOG SOURCES

I3 Move Communities provide a way to share expertise, resources, and community information to the general public. There are numerous tools available, both open source and proprietary, for engaging in dialog and sharing information and knowledge within a closed group.

Communities have access to IBM SmartCloud, a tool that provides a Cloud Computing solution for sharing files, defining activities, creating blogs, developing wikis, and promoting ideas. To request an account and training on IBM SmartCloud, contact econnect@utep.edu.

This community engages in dialog as follows:
Questions
Link: Email Us - cultureandhealth@listserv.utep.edu