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The annual Summer Institute on Migration and Health is organized by the Health Initiative of the Americas, from the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, and the School of Medicine of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

The National Association of Community Health Centers' (NACHC) Community Health Institute (CHI) and Expo is the largest annual gathering of community health center managers, clinicians, employees, board members and leaders. Every aspect of the community health center movement is represented and fully-vested at the CHI, making it a significant networking opportunity.

This will be your first chance to learn from Washington insiders about what the newly-elected Administration and Congress are planning for health care reform and the potential impact on America's Health Centers. The national conference brings together thousands of health center leaders, opinion-makers, policy experts, clinicians and consumers to dialogue on accessible and affordable health care.

Learn from the experts in the field, hear about cutting edge research and exceptional best practices, discover the latest public health products and services, and share your public health experience with your peers. The world of public health is in continual motion, and there is no better time to stay abreast of the research and learn about emerging issues.

The East Coast Migrant Stream Forum is an annual event that brings together professional whose focus is increasing access to health care services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families along the east coast. This three-day conference offers educational workshops through five major discplines: Clinical, Outreach/Lay Health Promotion, Policy/Advocacy, Programmatic/Administrative, and Research.

Farmworker Health: 20 Years of Service and Partnerships

Produced by the National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc., the Midwest Stream Farmworker Health forum is an annual conference that provides quality, farmworker specific, professional development experiences for individuals in all disciplines within migrant health. The forum offers a diverse program featuring sessions on clinical topics, lay health outreach, research, and leadership development while at the same time addressing the Bureau of Primary Health Care’s Key Health Center Program Requirements.

Finding and keeping good clinicians rate high on the priority lists of most Migrant and Community Health Centers. Where the “business” of an organization is providing excellent patient care, quality clinicians are obviously crucial to the success of the health center. This webcast will highlight real world strategies to recruit and retain clinicians. 1PM EST.

To enable physicians and other healthcare providers to provide state-of-the-art care to HIV infected patients throughout their life span.

This CDN sponsored webcast will review the cases of two patients and discuss various approaches using integrative treatment. This session’s cases will discuss the integrative approaches to Crohn’s Disease and Chronic Pain. 1PM EST.

This webcast will occur from 1-2pm EST after which it will be archived.

Presenters: Barbara Ginley, MPH,Maine Migrant Health Program and Elizabeth Freeman Lambar, MSW, MPH, North Carolina Farmworker Health Program