Healthy Advice for Los Angeles

 We have created an online community called Healthy Advice for Los Angeles to help identify urgent health problems in Los Angeles.  If you haven't done so already, please join the dialogue by following the link below and sharing your ideas and comments. 

We are encouraging you to participate as often and with as many ideas as you'd like.  Your expertise, insight and experience will help inform research priorities of the CTSI and will ultimately help shape health and health research in Los Angeles. Click Here to get started.

Health Literacy Forum Report

On May 25, 2010, a group of passionate and engaged community, academic and health care leaders came together to better understand a huge challenge facing health care providers in Los Angeles and around the nation.

The Community Forum on Improving Health Literacy in Los Angeles was sponsored by the Los Angeles Basin Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Office of Community Engagement, which is dedicated to conducting community-engaged research to transform health in Los Angeles and urban settings worldwide.

The purpose of our Forum was to stimulate discussion about barriers to and innovative strategies for improving health literacy in Los Angeles. Merely identifying the challenges isn't enough, we must begin organizing systems-level interventions and creating policy change. This Community Forum Report provides a summary of the day's discussions and presentations. Please use this report as a resource in your efforts to address the challenge of improving health literacy in Los Angeles.

Announcements

Dr. Sharon Hudson joined the OCE team in January as Research Navigator for Kaiser Permanente Southern California.

We are identifying community-engaged research currently underway at USC and CHLA through our IRB databases.  In addition, we are collecting local NEEDS ASSESSMENTS that have been conducted in the last 2-3 years.  We would like your help in this effort.  Please forward any information about other assessments to Marisela Robles at mariselr@usc.edu.

The 2011 Edward R. Roybal Memorial Lecture. Advancing the Agenda for Aging in Place. February 23, 2011, USC Town and Gown, 4:30 pm Lecture, with reception to follow. The event is intended to honor the legacy of Edward R. Roybal as a visionary national leader in establishing aging services and a champion for civil rights and equal justice. For more details Click Here. 

Spread The Word: New elective, graduate level course available through USC's School of Social Work; Interactive Media and Informatics Innovations in Neurobehavioral Translational Research (SOWK 599).  This course begins Spring 2011, Thursdays 4:10 - 7:00 p.m.  For more information contact Professors Jordan-Marsh or Gotsis at jordanma@usc.edu and mgotisis@cinema.usc.edu.

We are currently recruiting for Research Navigator positions who will collaborate with the Department of Health Services and the Department of Mental Health. Click Here for the job description.  Please feel free to forward it to anyone you think would be interested.  

Disseminating Orphan Innovations

by Evans, S.H. & Clarke, P. 

Sustainability of Collaborative Care Interventions in Primary Care Settings

by Palinkas, L.A., Ell, K., et al.