Speaker
Anna Odegaard, MPP
Health Policy Analyst, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota

The Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange: An Inside Look

Anna Odegaard is a policy specialist at SEIU Healthcare Minnesota, a
healthcare workers union.  In recent months, she has been integrally
involved in designing Minnesota's health insurance exchange. The
Affordable Care Act requires each state to develop an exchange as a
way of offering health insurance to people who are not insured through
their workplace.  In her talk, Ms. Odegaard will discuss how the
Exchange will work and the big decisions involved in designing it.
Since her talk will happen in the middle of the legislative process,
she will have very current updates on the issues the legislature faces
regarding the Exchange.

How to Survive a Plague - Film Screening

The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)
-- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence
into a manageable condition.

2:00-3:30pm

Public Health Information Session
and
Leaders for Social Change Poster Show

The Piper Center for Vocation and Career will be present at the information and poster fair in order to provide students with an overview of volunteer, internship, post-graduate service, graduate school, and career opportunities in public health. Information provided will encompass experiences in a wide range of locations (Northfield to St. Paul to abroad) with several programs and organizations, including Leaders for Social Change, HealthFinders Collaborative, ProWorld Service Corps, and the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Representatives from the Piper Center will be present to answer any questions students may have regarding this information and/or attaining experience in public health. They will also provide take-away resource lists for students, which cover the information presented at the booth as well as tip sheets on gaining experience in public health. 

Buntrock Commons
Crossroads

Opening and Welcome - Professor Hofrenning

Black and Gold Ballroom
Buntrock Commons

4:00-5:15pm

Opening Keynote
Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, Minneapolis,
Minnesota and Co-Director, US Census Data Research Center

The Social Determinants of Health: Past, Present, Future

This intentionally provocative talk will address the issue of health disparities, primarily in the United States. The status, causes, and potential solutions for health disparities will be critically examined. Recommendations for future research and action will be offered.

This lecture is a Wellness Center Swiped Event.

Black and Gold Ballroom
Buntrock Commons

7:15 - 8:30pm

Roundtable Discussion

Core Issues, Consequences, and Proposed Action Related
to Health Equity and the Social Deterrninants of Health

Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
Timothy Holtz '86, MD, MPH

Representatives of:
Healthfinders
Growing Up Healthy
Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC)
Westside Community Health Services (La Clinica)

St. Olaf Faculty Members

Black and Gold Ballroom
Buntrock Commons

8:30am

Complimentary Continental Breakfast

Black & Gold Ballroom
Hallway, Buntrock Commons

9:15 - 10:30am

Keynote:
Timothy Holtz '86, MD, MPH; Director, HIV/STD Research Program,
Thailand Ministry of Public Health - US CDC Collaboration, Thailand

Social Inequalities and HIV in Asia:
The Search for New Prevention Methods

Thirty years into the HIV epidemic, we still have astronomical rates of infection among some most-at-risk populations/social groups. In Thailand, men who have sex with men and injection drugs users continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, with infection rates over 25%. The seminar will discuss the HIV epidemic in Asia among vulnerable groups, and the search for new methods to prevent high-risk transmission.

This lecture is a Wellness Center Swiped Event.

Black and Gold Ballroom
Buntrock Commons

10:45 - 11:45am

Breakout Sessions:

Buntrock Commons

Session A: Service Provider Panel Discussion

1) Charlie Mandile and Emily Carroll - Healthfinders - Providing quality, accessible and culturally appropriate healthcare services, at no cost, to low-income and uninsured residents of greater Rice County.

2) Amy Shellabarger - Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC) - Seeking health equity in our community by advancing the well-being of diverse people.

3) Jose Ramirez and Erin Anderson, Medical Case Managers with West Side Community Health Services - La Clinica - Providing innovative and multicultural / multilingual health care services and education to immigrant and low-income communities.

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Session B: Inequality and Health

Janet Lewis Muth from Growing up Healthy - Connecting the Families of Rice County, Minnesota

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Session C: Collaborative Faculty-Student Research

1) "Strategies for Implementing Radon Education Interventions Among Hmong and Latino Communities" - Devyani Chandran, Asst. Professor in Social Work and Family Studies and Serena Xiong '13.

2) "The Impact of California's Minimum Nursing Law on Mental Health Diagnoses" - Ashley Hodgson, Asst. Professor in Economics and Ryan Peterson '14.

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