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The conference will be held at the Toftrees Golf Resort and Conference Center in State College, Pennsylvania. 

MCN's Candace Kugel will be part of a panel on sexual violence and will report on recent developments in MCN's Hombres Unidos program.

Learn more about the partnership between BPHC and the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start program and how this collaboration can help health centers nationwide.

Transportation is a key barrier to accessing health care for many underserved populations. In order to facilitate better access to patients struggling to receive quality health care, community health centers (CHCs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) are tasked with providing a wide range of enabling services, including transportation solutions. Yet, this task can prove difficult, requiring extensive staffing and financial resources. 

The Managing Ambulatory Health Care course is an exciting collaboration between the Migrant Clinicians Network and the National Association of Community Health Centers. Over one thousand clinicians have completed this continually updated program, consistently rating it excellent for its practicality in the clinical setting, sensitivity to the needs of community health center physicians, and timeliness. MCN will be augmenting the established content with our expertise in Global and Migration Health.

Open Enrollment Lessons Learned And Strategies Moving Forward

The MTPI efforts to provide important information related to the pathogenesis, host response, diagnosis, and management of lower respiratory tract infection will now include a live webinar series addressing novel, controversial, and timely issues.  This series will include live presentations by international experts followed by interactive question and answer sessions from ATS members.  Our first session is scheduled for December 9, 2013 (11:00 AM EST). 

Do You Want to be Heard? 

 Best Practices for Using Spanish-Language Radio to Promote HIV Prevention Webinar

Please join us for this webinar featuring our project partners Hispanic Communications Network (HCN) and Cascade AIDS Project. Presenters will share their expertise and experience in utilizing Spanish-language radio to advance HIV prevention efforts at a community level.     

Learn how to:

• Utilize Hispanic media to promote your HIV prevention efforts

Health care providers who serve farm communities can positively affect workers’ health through greater understanding of the occupational exposures and risks faced by pregnant women in the agricultural workforce.  A community-based participatory research (CBPR) study was consucted with a partnership between investigators from Emory University, the University of Florida, the Farmworker Association of Florida, and the Farmworker Health and Safety Institute. 

Please join the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) and Hep B United on Thursday, December 19th, from 2:30-4:00 PM EST for a webinar on Hepatitis B and Reducing Perinatal Transmission featuring speakers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Hep B United.