Oral Health in America: Removing the Stain of Disparity

This book is currently in production, you may order your copies now, but they will not ship until mid-January.

Oral Health in America details inequities to an oral health care system that disproportionately affects the poor, those without insurance, underrepresented and underserved communities, the disabled, and senior citizens. This book addresses issues in workforce development including the use of dental therapists, the rationale for the development of racially/ethnically diverse providers, and the lack of public support through Medicaid, which would guarantee access and also provide a rationale for building a system, one that takes into account the impact of a lack of visionary and inclusive leadership on the nation's ability to insure health justice for all.

Representing a broad spectrum of diversity, the authors bring their unique experiences and cultural insights to each chapter. Contributors represent the work and commitment of health care providers, philanthropy, corporate commitments, individual policy analysts, and decision makers. Their goal is to make visible the needless pain and suffering inequities cause and to provide options visionary leaders can adapt and implement to ensure health equity.

Community Voices Welcomes the 2018 Cohort of the Community Health Leadership Program

Community Voices is proud to welcome the 2018 class of the Community Health Leadership program. This year 15 student leaders and 15 community organizations were selected through a competitive application process to take part in this 9 week training curriclumn to advance leadership skills and address health equity.

CHLP has graduated over 200 community leaders who work across the nation in boardrooms, classrooms, community clinics, afterschool programs, social service agencies and hospitals.  Through this training venture you will learn about leadership, health disparities and the creation of high impact organizations, partnerships and interventions to advance you as a health equity professional.

Community Voices brings together Mayors, Commissioners to Advance Health

The Community Voices Division of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute launched the Healthy Communities Initiative on Monday June 16th and will continue through Friday June 23rd.

The Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI) is designed to close the gap between academic medicine or academic health centers and communities of greatest need by connecting to people who are most affected by disparities. The HCI is designed to mobilize and engage mayors, county officials, other elected officials and their teams by enhancing their health leadership skills, providing community health resources, and motivating leaders to influence policies and implement health projects that will eliminate health disparities. This program will provide an opportunity for in-depth engagement in exploring panoply of topics that will give participants concrete tools to enable effective engagement of multidisciplinary sectors, and resources required to improve health and community well-being. The attendees for this executive cohort range from mayors representing small cities across the east coast to County Commissioners from mid-sized jurisdictions in the mid-west and community stakeholders who represent public health departments and community organizations who work on policy, programming and services in their local communities.  This event is being sponsored by Morehouse School of Medicine, World Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities and the National Association of Black County Elected Officials through the generous support of the Kresge Foundation.

Healthy Communities Initiative to Begin June 19th!

The Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI) is designed to close the gap between academic medicine or academic health centers and communities of greatest need by connecting to people who are most affected by disparities. The HCI is designed to mobilize and engage mayors, county officials, other elected officials and their teams by enhancing their health leadership skills, providing community health resources, and motivating leaders to influence policies and implement health projects that will eliminate health disparities. This program will provide an opportunity for in-depth engagement in exploring panoply of topics that will give participants concrete tools to enable effective engagement of multidisciplinary sectors, and resources required to improve health and community well-being. The attendees for this executive cohort range from mayors representing small cities across the east coast to County Commissioners from mid-sized jurisdictions in the mid-west and community stakeholders who represent public health departments and community organizations who work on policy, programming and services in their local communities.