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In this age of economic downturn, there are opportunities for Healthy People. The health stimulus package includes a significant allocation for health reform. What share of the allocation will eventually go towards keeping people healthy? What factors will facilitate the investment in healthy people? What checks and balances are in place to ensure that those who need the resources the most have access to them? These are some of the questions that will be discussed by the presenters at this webinar and audio conference. In addition, we has asked registrants for their questions, and a few of these will be discussed.

Learning Objectives

• List critical opportunities for health investments
• Describe the potential for using Healthy People measures to explain for need for national health financing and delivery reform
• Use Healthy People as a tool to define the role of public health departments and community partners in ensuring nation’s health and reducing potential costs for national reform efforts

Moderated by: Helda Pinzon-Perez, PhD, RN, MPH; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, California State University, Fresno

Speakers:
Eva M. Moya, LMSW, PhD Candidate, Project Concern International; Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization Coordinator, member of the Secretary's Advisory Community on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020

Brian Smedley, PhD, Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington, DC.

John Capitman, PhD, Executive Director, Central Valley Health Policy Institute, California State University , Fresno

Speaker Bios:

Helda Pinzon-Perez, Ph.D., RN, MPH, CHES is a native of Colombia. She has a Ph.D. on Health Education, a Masters degree in Public Health with emphasis on Health Policy and Management, a Masters degree on Health Science, and a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at California State University, Fresno. Her major research interests are Hispanic/Latino health issues, International Health, and Alternative/Holistic Health. She is currently the director of the Community Health Option in the Department of Public Health at CSUF. She teaches courses in the area of health promotion.

Ms. Eva Moya is a native of the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Border region. She is a borderlander. Presently she is a Doctoral Candidate at UTEP Interdisciplinary Health Sciences PhD Program and serves as the Director Tuberculosis Division, U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association and as Senior Project Coordinator for Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization, Project Concern International in El Paso, Texas. Eva serves on Secretary’s’ Promotion and Disease Prevention Healthy People 2010 Advisory Committee, Texas Health Disparities Task Force and various advisory councils. Her expertise includes border, binational and cross-border health; health diplomacy; and migrant community health education, Community Health Workers/Promotores(as) de Salud Program implementation and evaluation; non-governmental organizations, health centers and academic institutions.

Dr. Brian D. Smedley is Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC. In this position, Dr. Smedley oversees all of the operations of the Institute, which was started in 2002 with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Institute has a dual focus: to explore disparities in health and to generate policy recommendations on longstanding health equity concerns.

Dr. John Capitman is the executive director for the Central Valley Health Policy Institute at California State University , Fresno. Capitman brings an extensive background in research and is nationally renowned for his work in health disparities, long-term care, substance abuse and racial and ethnic disparities in cancer care. Dr. Capitman was formerly a professor and director of long-term care studies in the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.