CDC Celebrates Minority Health Month

In accordance with this year's Minority Health Month theme: Advance Health Equity Now: Uniting our Communities to Bring Health Care Coverage to All!, CDC and HHS are focused on highlighting strategies and actions leading to Health Equity.

Minority Health Month at CDC

In celebration of Minority Health Month in April, CDC's Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE) links to several CDC activities bringing awareness to and highlighting efforts towards the advancement of health equity. Below are links to the highlighted topics.

Millenial Health Leaders Summit

Tuesday, April 4-5, 2013

The 2013 Millennial Health Leaders Summit brings together a cadre of medical, public health, and public policy graduate students, nominated by their universities for their outstanding achievements and promise as future leaders in addressing health disparities across the nation.

For more information see the Millenial Health Leaders Summit webpage.

Public Health Grand Rounds

Childhood Immunization as a Tool to Address Health Disparities

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
1:00-2:00pm EDT

This session of Grand Rounds examines how immunization has helped reduce infectious disease disparities among U.S. children, reducing the burden of infectious disease in children from racial/ethnic populations, and how immunization has, as a result, contributed to health equity.

For more information on watching the live webcast April 16th, viewing archived sessions afterwards, or to learn about free continuing education opportunities, see the CDC Public Health Grand Rounds website.

CDC Actions in support of the
HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities

• Smoking & Tobacco Use
  • CDC Expands National Tobacco Education Program
    Tips from Former Smokers 2013 Campaign
  • Media Campaign Resource Center (MCRC)
  • Winnable Battles - Tobacco Use
  • Vital Signs - Adult Smoking in the US
• Seasonal Influenza (Flu)
  • Flu Prevention Toolkit in Spanish
  • People at High Risk of Developing Flu-Related Complications
• Community Transformation Grants (CTGs)
  • National Dissemination and Support Initiative

Achievements of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities

• Related Report: Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities(Workshop Summary)

• Recommendations for Elimination of Health Disparities among national, state, and local partners.
• CDC Feature: NPS: America's Plan for Better Health & Wellness
• Healthy Places: NPS: The Importance of Community Design in Improving Public Health
  • Healthy Community Design Initiative: Recent Accomplishments
  • Health Topics, Key Topics Related to Community Design
• Environmental Justice

Examples of CDC Programs Addressing Disparities

• HHS Million Hearts Initiative at CDC
• Diabetes Public Health Resource (DPHR)
• National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
• National Program to Eliminate Diabetes Related Disparities in Vulnerable Populations
• Native Diabetes Wellness Program
• Vaccines & Immunizations
• Seasonal Influenza (Flu) Print Materials
  • Native Americans & Alaska Natives
  • Spanish Language
• Youth Violence Prevention
• Teen Dating Violence Prevention
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI)
• National Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)
• Expanded & Integrated HIV Testing
• Take Charge. Take the Test
• National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP), Tobacco Control & National Networks
• Tuberculosis (TB) Patient and General Public Materials
• Tuberculosis (TB) in the African American Community
• National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Spina Bifida
  in Spanish
• Disability and Health, Health Care Data & Statistics
• Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW)
• Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the US (REACH US)
• Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Resources
  • The Public Health Reports August/September 2011 supplement (V 126, suppl 3)
    focuses on data systems and their use in addressing social determinants of health.
• Native American Road Safety

Minority Health Month at HHS

• Advance Health Equity Now: Uniting our Communities to Bring Health Care Coverage to All!
• HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Statement on National Minority Health Month 2013
• A Message from the OMH Director - Celebrating National Minority Health Month 2013
• Disparities Reduction Efforts
• Offices of Minority Health
• Act Now!
• Highlights on the Work of Our Communities! Communities in Action

Donate the Gift of Life!
Promote organ donation

• Donate Life America- Multicultural Perspectives
• Presidential Proclamation - National Donate Life Month, 2013

Walk it off!
Fight obesity
Let's Move

CDC Links:

• Overweight and Obesity Recommendations
• Childhood Obesity Strategies and Solutions

Watch your mouth!
Promote oral health
HHS Oral Health Initiative

CDC Links:

• Division of Oral Health Resources

HHS National Partnership for Action (NPA)

• HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities
• National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity

More Information

• Farmworker Health
• Women's Health
• Office of the Associate Director for Program (OADPG)
• Tribal Support
• Healthy People 2020
• HHS OMH Minority Health Month Advance Health Equity Now!
• HHS National Partnership for Action (NPA)
• AHRQ National Healthcare Disparities Report
• Pandemic Influenza & Vulnerable Populations (AJPH Suppl)
• Public Health Reports Supplement on Data Systems and Social Determinants of Health