Bridging Communities with Systems Change: Advancing Health Equity and Promising Practices Session 2

Join us on September 20-21, 2022 for The Tobacco, Cancer, and Health Equity Web Series discussing critical racial and health equity issues particular in tobacco and cancer prevention and control and other areas of public health inequities. This is an opportunity to celebrate the collaboration of priority populations in combating cancer and tobacco related health disparities.
This virtual web series will be an opportunity for both newer tobacco and cancer control advocates as well as those more experienced to participate and engage.
APPEAL invites health departments, health systems, community leaders, coalitions, and others in the health community to build a bridge for health equity change in tobacco and cancer prevention and control. This web series will allow for diverse communities of color, culture, and intersectionality to collect strategic ideas for community empowered policy, systems, and environmental change to forward current health equity work in the Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Asian American communities. Participants will learn about and be given a chance to develop and create action plans to embed health equity for all from real case examples and be exposed to the resources available to ASPIRE partners such as individualized technical assistance training, toolkits, and fact sheets for replicating and adapting successful promising practices to their communities. Facilitated dialogue will allow for health departments and community based organizations to continue to build a network of partnerships for cancer and tobacco prevention and control.
Session 2: Addressing Equity Strategies and Development of Promising Practices among Asian Americans for Health Departments and Communities - Asian Americans, Intersectionality, and Equity for All -Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 - 11 am-12:00 pm PT / 2-3pm ET
Part 1: Creating a Dialogue and Developing Promising Practices
Objective 1:
Participants will learn to leverage a community centered asset based approach to coalitions and capacity building and develop strategies to advance upstream health equity work in state and local health departments through cross cultural community partnerships to empower communities to civic engagement and leadership
Have a framework for local and state health departments to partner with communities to develop equity centered policy and create leaders for positive intersectionality change
Objective 2:
Participants will learn to identify successful promising practices and how to apply them to build strategic systems, institutions, and community partnerships with whole community representation
Have practical examples of equity centered tobacco or cancer policy interventions implemented by programs and coalitions
Part 2: Applying What You Learned - Embedding and Standardizing Promising Practices
Objective 3:
Participants will develop ways to uplift promising practices to advance health equity for all and empower communities to champion equity centered policy and culturally centered education and outreach
Have participants begin to think about and create action plans/strategies for embedding equity centered tobacco and cancer control policy through adapting learned promising practices
This session will be a way for Asian American communities and local and state health departments to connect and partner with each other to advance health equity work. The session will work to introduce real case examples to the participants and be a resource for them to develop their own promising practices for policy change. Each speaker will convey the successes and challenges in establishing successful policy or project interventions through community partnerships with local or state health departments in cancer data surveillance and disaggregation and building community capacity for leadership development and coalition building in areas of tobacco, cancer, and health equity.
Moderated by Michelle Jeu / Rod Lew
Opening Remarks by Chris Benjamin, JD, MPH, Program Services Branch, Deputy Branch Chief, CDC
Featured Speakers for Facilitated Dialogue:
Scarlett Lin Gomez
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of San Francisco and Director, Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
Elaine S. Ishihara
Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Advocating Together for Health (APICAT)
Norilyn de la Pena
Commercial Tobacco Cessation Manager, Public Health Seattle & King County’s Cannabis, Tobacco, & Vapor Prevention Program