On Saturday, December 22, 2012, in Falls Church, VA HBI-DC, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, hosted the Lay Health Worker’s certification program workshop funded by the National Cancer Institute.
HBI-DC provided organization and logistic support bringing together a diverse group of college students, public health workers, pharmacists, medical students and concerned individuals from throughout the Washington-Baltimore area. The group represents the ideal private/public partnership necessary to help us achieve our mission of mobilizing communities to prevent liver disease caused by hepatitis B among Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African newcomers, and other high-risk groups in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area by providing culturally and linguistically appropriate hepatitis B outreach, education, screening, vaccination, linkages to care, and patient navigation services for impacted communities.
This effort coincides with HHS Strategic Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis particularly:
HBI-DC provided organization and logistic support bringing together a diverse group of college students, public health workers, pharmacists, medical students and concerned individuals from throughout the Washington-Baltimore area. The group represents the ideal private/public partnership necessary to help us achieve our mission of mobilizing communities to prevent liver disease caused by hepatitis B among Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African newcomers, and other high-risk groups in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area by providing culturally and linguistically appropriate hepatitis B outreach, education, screening, vaccination, linkages to care, and patient navigation services for impacted communities.
This effort coincides with HHS Strategic Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis particularly:
- Educating Providers and Communities to Reduce Health Disparities
- Improving Testing and Linkage to Care to Prevent Hepatitis B related Liver Disease and Cancer
- Eliminating Perinatal Transmission