HBU Webinar: Innovative Strategies for Using Health IT to Identify and Manage Disparities in High Risk Populations
This session presents a community health center-based health information technology and electronic health record system designed to increase hepatitis B screening, vaccination, and treatment. Panelists also discuss a pilot project that examines the collection of non-clinical or social determinants of health data and the potential impact on patients living with hepatitis B.
Video recording: Innovative Strategies for Using Health IT to Identify and Manage Disparities in High Risk Populations
Presentation Slides:
Collecting Social Determinants of Health Data Using PRAPARE; Rosy Chang Weir
Reducing Hepatitis B Disparities Through Health IT at Community Health Centers: HIT-B Project; Mariko Toyoji
This session presents a community health center-based health information technology and electronic health record system designed to increase hepatitis B screening, vaccination, and treatment. Panelists also discuss a pilot project that examines the collection of non-clinical or social determinants of health data and the potential impact on patients living with hepatitis B. Video recording: Innovative Strategies for Using Health IT to Identify and Manage Disparities in High Risk PopulationsHBU Webinar: Innovative Strategies for Using Health IT to Identify and Manage Disparities in High Risk Populations
Presentation Slides:
Collecting Social Determinants of Health Data Using PRAPARE; Rosy Chang Weir
Reducing Hepatitis B Disparities Through Health IT at Community Health Centers: HIT-B Project; Mariko Toyoji
In Part 2 of this 2-part webinar series, expert speaker Dr. Moon Chen, Professor and Director for Cancer Control, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses strategies to motivate individuals with hepatitis B and their providers to participate in clinical trials. Video recording: Clinical Trials – What They Mean for the Hepatitis B CommunityHBU Webinar: Clinical Trials – What They Mean for the Hepatitis B Community
Presentation Slides:
HBV Clinical Trials and Why They Are Important; Moon Chen and Robert Gish
In Part 1 of this 2-part webinar series, expert speaker Dr. Timothy M. Block, Co-Founder and President of the Hepatitis B Foundation and President and Director of the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, discusses hepatitis B drugs in development. Video recording: Current and Future HBV Treatment and Research Towards Finding a CureHBU Webinar: Current and Future HBV Treatment and Research Towards Finding a Cure
Presentation Slides:
Understanding New Medicines to Treat Chronic Hepatitis B: Toward a Cure; Timothy M. Block
In this interactive session learn about advocacy strategies at the city and state levels on policies that impact hepatitis B, including best practices from New York City’s hepatitis B advocacy initiatives. Video recording: Strategies to Work with Your Local Policymakers on Hepatitis BHBU Webinar: Bring it Home! Strategies to Work with Your Local Policymakers on Hepatitis B
Presentation Slides:
How to Work with State/Local Policymakers on Hepatitis B; Isha Weerasinghe
Best Practices from NYC’s Hepatitis B Advocacy Initiative; Niki Bannister
Handouts:
Template Letter – Policymaker Site Visit Request
Template Letter – Requesting a Meeting with Policymaker
Recap of 2016 Hep B United Summit
In late July, during World Hepatitis Day 2016, the fourth annual Hep B United Summit convened in Washington D.C. and dozens of advocates met with federal officials and brainstormed strategies to increase screening, immunization and linking people to care to eliminate hepatitis B across the country. Read the summit report here.
Presentation Slides:
The State of HBV in the World; Brian J. McMahon, MACP, FAASLD, Medical Director, Liver Disease & Hepatitis Program, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Joint Hep B United and Know Hepatitis B Campaign Accomplishments; Cynthia Jorgensen, DrPH and Sherry Chen, MPH, CHES, CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis; Chari Cohen, DrPH, Director of Public Health, Hepatitis B Foundation
Developing New Partnerships and Increasing Awareness
Circles within Circles: Opportunities for Intersections; Thaddeus Pham, MPH, Co-Director, Hep Free Hawaii
Leveraging Data and Evaluating Impact
The ABC’s of Data Collection and Dissemination; Moon Chen, PhD, Director, AANCART and Chari Cohen, DrPH, Director of Public Health, Hepatitis B Foundation
Building and Sustaining Local Hepatitis B Coalitions
Lessons from the Hepatitis B Coalition of Washington; Mohammed Abdul-Kadir, MPH, MSIS, Coordinator, Hepatitis B Coalition of Washington, International Community Health Services
Navigating Patients and Linkage to Care Strategies
Navigating Strategies & Linkage to Care for Hepatitis B; Karen Jiobu, DLM (ASCP), Asian American Community Services (Columbus, OH)
NYC Check Hep B Patient Navigation Program; Nirah Johnson, LCSW, Director, Capacity Building & Program Implementation, Viral Hepatitis Program, New York City Dept. of Health
