04/10/2007
As part of the Culture, Health and Science conference, Maggie Pharris and Avonne Yang will be speaking about their experience collaborating with community to take action around health
disparities. This is the FIRST TIME that CHS has invited nurses to speak -- and it will mean a lot to the organizers for you to be there and to bring your students. Here are the details:
The Flutter of a Butterfly and the Ripple in the Water: Addressing Health Disparities Through Community-Based Collaborative Research Action
Tuesday, April 10, 7:30 pm
Room 174-176 UMass Amherst Campus Center
Free and open to all.
Background:
Pharris in a previous email wrote that, for her talk, she plans " to weave in an immigration (probably Latin America-US) perspective or exemplar as I explain the paradigm from which we have shaped our community based collaborative action research process that led up to the research with Hmong women with diabetes. That will lay the groundwork for Avonne to present the process and findings of the CBCAR project with Hmong women with diabetes, which everyone from the various disciplines should find quite interesting.... For the Wednesday group of clinicians, I have prepared a slightly different presentation using the research with African American women who have diabetes as the exemplar..."
For further information, please contact Betsy Krause at ekrause@anthro.umass.edu.
