Scientific Agenda
The Fifth Health Disparities Conference featured lectures by individuals who have made significant contributions to improving healthcare access and to empower vulnerable populations and marginalized communities.
This conference will allowed participants to review and learn strategies focused on achieving health equity through access to care, prevention and treatment of major chronic diseases. Special session presentations addressed clinical, scientific, academic, and public health intervention that improve outcomes and eliminate health disparities through treatment, advocacy, and policy development. Further, this conference provided learning sessions to review and develop skills, techniques and approaches, which influence outcomes through interdisciplinary comprehensive healthcare provider models. >>Download Presentations
Accreditation
The Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. To receive credit for the continuing education activities provided, participants must complete an evaluation form at the conclusion of each session. Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy will mail Statements of Continuing Pharmacy Education to participants within one month after the meeting. The cost of a duplicate Statement of Continuing Pharmaceutical Education Credit is $5.00. This is a knowledge-based activity.
Funding for this conference was made possible [in part] by Grant Number 5 S21 MD 000100-11 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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