This four-part learning collaborative will focus on integrating structural competency into the practice of healthcare providers in the community health center setting. By understanding the social structures that have produced and maintain modern social inequities as well as health disparities, participants can learn to assess the structural processes that are at play for their populations and seek to implement the vital structures that allow their communities to thrive. Registration for this learning collaborative is now full.
At the conclusion of this series, participants will be able to…
- Identify the impact of social structures on individual and community health.
- Define and apply structural competency as a framework using a shared vocabulary.
- Identify strategies to respond to the influences of social structures in the healthcare setting and beyond.
Presenters
Deliana
Garcia
MA
Chief Program Officer, International and Emerging Issues
Migrant Clinicians Network
As the Chief Program Officer, International and Emerging Issues for Migrant Clinicians Network, Deliana Garcia (she/her/ella) has dedicated more than thirty years to the health and wellness needs of migrant and other underserved immigrant populations. Throughout her career she has worked in the areas of reproductive health, sexual and intimate partner violence, access to primary care, and infectious disease control and prevention. Garcia is responsible for the development and expansion of Health Network, an international bridge case management and patient navigation system to make available across international borders the health records of migrants diagnosed with infectious and chronic diseases. She has served as the Principal Investigator or member of the research team for a number of studies addressing topics, such as sexual and intimate partner violence prevention among Latino migrant and immigrant families, trauma in transit for migrants crossing international borders, and emotionally-charged dialogue between patients and health care providers.
Seth M. Holmes has an M.D. from the UC San Francisco School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. A cultural and medical anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as The Huffington Post and Salon.com and spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio and Radio Bilingüe radio programs.
Cheryl Seymour, MD, is a family medicine physician whose practice includes obstetrics, pediatrics, and geriatrics. She has a special clinical interest in migrant health care. A member of MaineGeneral Medical Center's active staff, Dr. Seymour has practiced locally since 2005.