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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 51-58
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Heide Castañeda, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research combines medical anthropology and public health perspectives and focuses on migrant health and health policy in Germany, Mexico, and the United States.
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Before medical school, he worked at Northwestern University on a randomized controlled trial focused on increasing smoking cessation rates among low-income patients attending federally qualified health centers. Walter A
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Howard's teaching interests reflect her dual expertise and training in policy and politics and she has taught courses on international security and foreign policy, terrorism and political violence, immigration and refugee policy, race and gender, and research methods and statistics. Since joining the UNLV faculty in 2008, she has been awarded several prestigious and nationally recognized research fellowships and visiting scholar positions, including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship (University of California, Los Angeles, 2013–2014)
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She is currently the Director of Community Health and Research at Asian Health Services (AHS) , a federally qualified health center in Oakland, California, providing culturally competent health care to more than 28,000 patients in English and 12 Asian languages.
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As an epidemiologist, she has focused much of her work on examining the influence of environmental and sociocultural factors on the health of the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders population. In addition to AHS, she previously worked at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California as a Research Scientist, where she led research studies on environmental health issues affecting disadvantaged populations, including occupational chemical exposures for Vietnamese nail salon workers.
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Today the clinic provides primary care, behavioral health, interpreter services, comprehensive chronic disease care with particular focus on diabetes and HIV, community health promotion and education, advocacy, and outreach for men, women, and children throughout the DC metropolitan area. La Clínica's mission is "to build a healthy Latino community through culturally appropriate health services, focusing on those most in need." Ms.
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developed and implemented a novel approach, the Expected Practice, that effectively standardizes clinical decision making and behavior; and (3) transformed the Los Angeles County Health System into a model for testing disruptive health care innovations that improve the quality and efficiency of clinical care.
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