Enabling Healthy Behaviors through Policy and Environment Change

Presenter: Sonia Angell, MD, MPH
Deputy Commissioner, Division of Prevention and Primary Care, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

This lecture outlines the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s approach to public health initiatives to reduce chronic diseases, including efforts to curb smoking and reduce trans fat intake.

From Community Partners in Care to the Health Neighborhood Initiative: Translating National Institutes of Health–Funded Science into Policy

Presenter: Bowen Chung, MD
Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles

This presentation describes a community-partnered participatory research project that established partnerships between the University of California and two communities in Los Angeles to improve mental health services for the homeless.

Structural Competency: New Medicine for Inequalities That Are Making Us Sick

Presenter: Helena B. Hansen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

This seminar explains the systemic causes of health inequalities and examines how to assess social determinants of health to create structurally competent clinical interventions.

Understanding Patient and Stakeholder Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Presenters:

Darius Tandon, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Community Health, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Population Health

This workshop describes patient-centered outcomes research, methods for engaging patients and stakeholders in this type of research, and techniques for involving them in the research planning process. 

Motivational Interviewing Series

This series explains the foundation and skills of motivational interviewing—a communication style designed to help people recognize and resolve discrepancies between their current level of skills and their future goals and values—to help facilitate behavior change.

Part 1: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

Part 2: Motivational Interviewing in Conversation with Older Adults

Part 3: Recognizing the Language of Change

Presenter: Franze de la Calle
Project Coordinator, Department of Population Health

Presenter: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Associate Commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Presenter: Esther J. Calzada, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Presenter: Krystal Reyes, MPA
Senior Advisor for Children and Family Services, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services