This webinar will be provided in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English
Recent natural disasters have illustrated the critical need for comprehensive and coordinated planning among all levels of the health center staff before disasters occur. Understanding the critical role that different elements of the health center play before, during, and after a disaster allows health centers to continue to provide services in a timely manner even when facing challenging circumstances. Health center involvement in post-disaster management helps to insure a commitment to health equity with an ongoing focus on social risk factors. This webinar provided under HRSA addresses health center governance, leadership, and management as health centers work to become essential hubs in emergency situations and will provide information and discussion with participants around the role clinicians play in creating resilient health center systems.
During this webinar, the community social mobilization approach will be presented as a tool for emergency preparedness and how community health centers can include this approach in their emergency preparedness plans.
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At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to...
- Describe the different ways in which health centers contribute to their patients and the community before, during, and after a disaster.
- Discuss the ways in which social risk factors impact an individual's or a community's ability to rebound after a disaster.
- Explore ways in which health centers can become an essential hub during and after disasters, with a particular emphasis on the role that clinicians play.
Presenters
Marysel
Pagán Santana
DrPH, MS
Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Senior Program Manager for Puerto Rico
Migrant Clinicians Network
Marysel Pagán Santana, DrPH, MS, serves as Director of Environmental and Occupational Health of Migrant Clinicians Network in Puerto Rico, where she leads and coordinates MCN projects related to occupational health, disaster preparedness, and emergency response. She is also the organization's lead for the Caribbean Office. Dr. Pagán Santana provides technical assistance, training, and tool development for community health centers in Puerto Rico and the communities they serve to address disaster-related issues and health-related impacts. Additionally, she is the project director of a USDA-funded project to support resiliency among farmworkers in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. She also provides training related to occupational health and safety to different populations of workers in Puerto Rico. Dr. Pagán Santana has extensive experience providing training to vulnerable and high-risk worker populations and carrying out community projects. She also has over eight years of experience in the private sector as an industrial hygienist and continues to offer them her professional consulting in the development and implementation of training programs in occupational and environmental health, emergency preparedness, and business continuity planning. In recent years, Dr. Pagán Santana has focused on assisting the response to COVID-19 in educational institutions in Puerto Rico, as well as supporting the PR Department of Health's response by offering training to personnel responsible for monitoring schools and businesses to promote the health of students and essential personnel in Puerto Rico. Dr. Pagán Santana has a Master’s degree in Industrial Hygiene and a Doctorate in Public Health with an emphasis on environmental health from the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.
Alma
Galván
MHC
Director of Training and Community Engagement
Migrant Clinicians Network
Alma Galván, MHC, is MCN's Director of Training and Community Engagement. Galván has worked for over three decades to improve the health of agricultural workers. She has extensive experience providing technical assistance and developing curricula and educational materials for adults with limited English proficiency and limited literacy, community health workers, health professionals, health educators, and clinicians. Galván has worked extensively with MCN partners, community-based organizations, health agencies, and local and state health departments.
Continuing Education Credit (CEU)
Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.
Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), is accredited as an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.