Focus on Health Equity and Action Cyberseminar Series
Upcoming Session:
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
12PM - 1PM (ET)
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Title: Promoting Workforce Equity: Examining a Case Study of VHA Undergraduate Training with a Focus on Hispanic Students
Description:
The VA Equity Action Plan includes engagement with Veterans and their communities, including underserved communities. Part of that engagement includes working to create a diverse workforce to serve Veterans. Pathway programs support representation in health care and potential for diversity among the Veteran Health Administration (VHA) network of clinicians and researchers. This Focus on Health Equity and Action Cyberseminar will examine a case study of an undergraduate training program within VHA. The review will outline important components for undergraduate mentoring, describe benefits of tiered mentoring for undergraduate training, and explain how undergraduate mentoring could positively contribute to VHA while focusing on needs, benefits and experiences of Hispanic students. VHA student trainees will also share their taining experiences in VA programs.
Speaker:
Laura Zambrano-Vazquez, PhD (she | her)
Clinical Psychologist
Director of Training, Education & Dissemination Core
VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans
Doris Miller VA Medical Center Waco, TX
Email: Laura.Zambrano-Vazquez@va.gov
Intended audience:
Researchers, clinicians, care coordinators, policy makers, educators, data analysts, Veteran stakeholders and representatives of vulnerable Veteran groups who are interested in understanding and/or promoting equitable health among all Veterans.
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About the Focus on Health Equity and Action Cyberseminars
The VHA Office of Health Equity (OHE) in partnership with the VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) launched the Focus on Health Equity and Action Cyberseminars. Each cyberseminar spotlights activities that promote the implementation of the VHA Health Equity Action Plan (HEAP), and aims to:
- Catalyze, synergize, and coordinate VHA programs, projects, and initiatives to effectively identify, understand, seek and implement solutions to diminish and where possible eliminate health disparities;
- Demonstrate alignment with other federal partners working to achieve health equity;
- Bring focus to VHA efforts to provide a more equitable, individualized and patient-driven health care delivery system;
- Improve overall quality of care through equity in all policies and the achievement of health equity for all;
- Incorporate the innovative ideas and input of all users in order to encourage a bottom up approach while maintaining a strong connection to the overarching goals of the VA;
- Capitalize on the existing network of advocates and programs in both administrative and clinical realms to weave health equity dialogue and cultural attunement into training and other activities within and outside the health care system; and
- Serve as a guide and/or starting place that would remain a living document which is open to modification and adaptation to continuously meet the needs of the Veterans entrusted to the VHA.