8:30-9 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (BRT lobby)
9-9:10 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
Sponsor: Multicultural Public Health Student Association (MPHSA) President, Odilia M. Garcia,
MHA Candidate 2016
Summit Moderator: Darryl B. Hood, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
College of Public Health
Ohio State NPHW Host: William J. Martin II, M.D. Professor and Dean, College of Public Health
9:10-10 a.m.
Keynote Address
Title: Homelessness, Mass Incarceration, and Health Disparities: Three Sides of the Same Coin?
Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Mailman
School of Public Health, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
10-10:10 a.m. Break
10:15-11:15 a.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Session A Homeless Youth: Serving an Invisible Population; Samuel Masters, Community Liaison; OSU Star House (Davis Heart and
Lung Inst., room 165)
Session B The Effects of Race, Ethnicity and Culture on Youth Homelessness & Health; Paul D. Juarez, Ph.D. Professor, Meharry
Medical College (BRT, room 115)
Session C An Intersectional Approach to Vulnerable Men’s Health; Derek M. Griffith, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor, Vanderbilt University
(BRT, room 105)
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Lunch Networking Session
12:15-1:15 p.m. Panel Discussion: Issues Impacting Homeless Populations Gregory L. Hall, Lori Summers-Corey, Tom Albanese
Student Provocateur, Anton Johnson, Multicultural Public Health Student Association, MHA Candidate, 2016
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Session A Health Care for the Homeless: A federal program implemented in Columbus, OH; Lori Summers-Corey, PrimaryOne
Health (BRT, room 105)
Session B The Homeless System and Demographics of Homelessness in Columbus, OH; Sarah Loken, Community Shelter Board
(BRT, room 115)
Session C Roundtable Discussion: Race, Ethnicity and Men’s Health; Derek M. Griffith, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University (BRT room 115)
2:35-3 p.m.
Acknowledgements: Melinda Domingo, Member, MPHSA; Pharm.D. (expected) May, 2017
Concluding Remarks: Gregory L. Hall, MD, Chair, Ohio Commission on Minority Health
The keynote speaker for the event is Robert E. Fullilove, EdD the Associate Dean for Community and Minority
Affairs, Professor of Clinical Socio-medical Sciences and Co-director of the Cities Research Group at The Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Fullilove has authored numerous articles in the
area of minority health. From 1995 to 2001, he served on the Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at
the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academy of Sciences. Since 1996, he has served on five IOM study
committees that have produced reports on a variety of topics including substance abuse and addiction, HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, and damp indoor spaces and health. In 2003, he was designated a National Associate of the National
Academies of Science. In 1998 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention (ACHSP)
at the Centers for Disease Control, and in July, 2000, he became the committee's co-chair. Between 2004-2007, he
served on the National Advisory Council for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes
of Health [NIH]. Since 2010, he has been teaching public health courses in six New York State prisons that are part of the Bard College
Prison Initiative (BPI) and he is concurrently serving as the Senior Advisor to BPI's public health program. Dr. Fullilove serves on the
editorial boards of the journals Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and the Journal of Public Health Policy. He has been awarded the
Distinguished Teaching Award at the Mailman School of Public Health three times (in 1995, 2001, and 2013), and in May, 2002, he
was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bank Street College of Education.
Title: Homelessness, Mass Incarceration, and Health Disparities: Three Sides of the Same Coin?
1.
Attendees will learn how homelessness, mass incarceration, and health disparities share common roots in disadvantage in the US
2.
Attendees will learn how researchers often fail to note how these conditions occur in synergistic fashion and often fail to see them
as part of the geography of racism and poverty.
3.
Attendees will be made aware of the concerted efforts to organize, educate, and empower currently and formerly incarcerated
persons – e.g. through efforts such as the Bard Prison Initiative that offers promising approaches [and solutions?] to these
problems.
Samuel Masters, Community Liaison, OSU Star House. Mr. Masters is a 2012 graduate of The Ohio State
University, He has worked with homeless youth in Columbus for over 6-years. Currently, he is managing the Suicide
Prevention Project at the OSU Star House. His work focuses on identifying homeless youth who express suicidal
ideations and connecting them with therapeutic interventions He also represents the Star House in community
meetings and presentations throughout Central Ohio. His commitment to the field and Star House began in 2009
when he served as a student monitor and conducted outreach to engage youth at camps, parks, libraries, and soup
kitchens. His previous experience includes service as Lead Advocate for the Outreach Project, studying how to
connect with and serve homeless youth, as well as coordinating volunteers and donations. He is currently a
candidate for a Masters of Public Administration from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and is a co-chair of
the Legislative Advocacy Committee for the Central Ohio Rescue and Restore Coalition.
Title: Homeless Youth: Serving an Invisible Population
1.
Attendees will find out the characteristics of the youth population that is served.
2.
Attendees will find out the history and current services offered by OSU Star House.
3.
Attendees will learn of OSU Star House research programs that potentially impact policy issues.
Paul D. Juarez, PhD is a tenured Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Family and
Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College. He is also the PI of the NIMHD Health Disparities Research
Center of Excellence at Meharry and director of the Tennessee statewide model Area Health Education Center. Dr.
Juarez’s research is grounded in systems theory, the exposome and a lifespan approach that has led to groundbreaking application of computational, multi-level, and spatial-temporal methods and analyses in public health
practice. The focus of the large trans disciplinary research group that he directs has been to increase our
understanding of the complex interactions, mechanisms and bio-psycho-social and ecological pathways through
which chemical and non-chemical, environmental exposures contribute to disparate health outcomes and health
disparities at a population level.
Title: The Effects of Race, Ethnicity and Culture on Youth Homelessness and Health.
1.
Attendees will be able to identify at least two barriers to counting homeless youth.
2.
Attendees will be able to identify three risk factors associated with youth homelessness.
3.
Attendees will be able to describe a multi-systemic approach to reducing homelessness among youth.
.
Derek M. Griffith, PhD is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Research on Men’s Health at
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is a leading social scientist focused on social influences on men’s
health and racial and ethnic health disparities. He primarily focuses on identifying and addressing psychosocial,
cultural and environmental determinants of African American men’s health and well-being. Funded by several
institutes wit hin the National Institutes of Health and foundations such as the American Cancer Society and the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Dr. Griffith specializes in informing, developing and testing interventions to improve African
American men’s lifestyle behaviors and chronic disease risk, morbidity and mortality, often using a community-based
participatory research approach. His research has been featured in such news outlets as MSN, NPR, Time
Magazine, US News & World Report and USA Today.
Title: An Intersectional Approach to Vulnerable Men’s Health.
1. Attendees will be able to define key social determinants of vulnerable men’s health
2. Attendees will be able to describe ways that race, ethnicity, gender, and age combine to put particular groups of men at risk for
homelessness and poor health.
3. Attendees will be able to discuss potential points of intervention to improve the health and well being of vulnerable men
Panel Moderator: Gregory L. Hall, MD received a governor’s appointment to the Ohio Commission on Minority
Health in 2002 and presently serves as the group’s Chairman. He was appointed to the Cuyahoga County Board of
Health in 2010 for a five-year term. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Hall acts as the Medical Director for five
local nursing homes, is the Medical Director of Community Outreach at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, and is an
Assistant Professor at the Case Western Reserve University College of Medicine. In January of 2008, he was
appointed to Ohio’s Medicaid Health Advisory Board and served on its Executive Committee. As co-chair of both the
City of Cleveland’s Public Health Advisory Committee and the leadership board of Steps to a Healthier Cleveland,
Dr. Hall helped to oversee health awareness and improvement activities throughout the area. A native Clevelander,
Dr. Hall attended Williams College in Massachusetts and earned his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Ohio.
He also completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
Lori Summers-Corey is a Licensed Independent Social Worker, LISW-S with Supervisory designation in the State
of Ohio. She is currently the Homeless Program Manager for Health Care for the Homeless at PrimaryOne Health.
Lori has worked in the areas of community mental health, corrections and homelessness throughout her career.
Currently, she is working on opening the first medical respite program in Columbus; medical respite care is short
term residential care that allows homeless individuals the opportunity to rest in a safe environment while accessing
medical care along with other supportive services. Lori also serves on the board of the Columbus Coalition for the
Homeless.
Title: Health Care for the Homeless: A federal program implemented in Columbus, OH
1. Attendees will receive a systemic overview of health care and homelessness in America
2. Attendees will learn of evolution of the Health Care for the Homeless administered by HRSA (Health Resources and Services
Administration)
3.
Attendees will learn how the Health Care for the Homeless program was implemented in Columbus
Panelist, Tom Albanese, LSW is a Senior Associate with Abt Associates and has provided planning,
development, and implementation support for housing and homeless programs since 1992. He currently serves as a
lead technical assistance provider for the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development
(HUD). Tom provides technical assistance for diverse states and localities concerning homeless system
management, rapid re-housing, and homelessness prevention best practices for HUD. Prior to joining Abt, Tom
served as Director of Programs and Planning for the Community Shelter Board (CSB) in Columbus, Ohio. Tom is a
Licensed Social Worker in the state of Ohio.
Sara Loken leads Community Shelter Board’s community relations, government relations and communication
efforts. In this role, she works to build public awareness about CSB’s work to lead the community’s response to
homelessness. She engages a broad array of public and private stakeholders and participates in local, state and
federal advocacy activities. Sara leads media relation efforts and crafts presentations, speeches and public testimony
to advance CSB’s mission. She has 20 years of non-profit experience in homelessness. Community Shelter Board is a
collective impact organization leading the community’s response to homelessness by creating collaborations,
developing innovative solutions, and investing in quality programs in Columbus and Franklin County. Community
Shelter Board oversees an annual budget of $31 million to support homeless programs and services. Last year, these
programs served more than 12,000 people.
Title: The State of Homelessness in Our Local Community.
1. Attendees will be able to identify the components of the homeless system in Columbus.
2. Attendees will be able to identify how many people experience homelessness in Columbus and Franklin County and the
basic demographics of those affected.
3.
Attendees will learn how to get involved in our community’s response to homelessness.
The Summit Moderator: Darryl B. Hood, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Environmental Health
Science, College of Public Health at The Ohio State University. He is a nationally recognized environmental
neuroscientist who conducts both basic mechanistic and community-based research. Dr. Hood’s seminal
mechanistic work demonstrated for the first time, the functional impact of in utero exposure to benzo(a)pyrene on
preadolescent behavioral phenotypes that are mediated by maturing cortical circuits. His translational community
engagement research in the vulnerable communities of the Southern Gateway in Columbus, OH focuses on
implementation of the recently described Public Health Exposome framework. This novel framework provides an
alternate approach to determine relevant associations from exposure to environmental contaminants and place-based
disparate health outcomes.
About DIPHS
The Multicultural Public Health Student Association (MPHSA) is proud to host the 4th Annual Diversity in Public Health
Summit (DIPHS) at The Ohio State University, College of Public Health. DIPHS was created to expose students, faculty,
and staff to the various ways in which social identities impact public health.
On behalf of MPHSA, welcome and thank you for your commitment to diversity in public health. We hope you enjoy the
summit!
With gratitude,
MPHSA Executive Board,
Odilia Garcia, Ivory Patterson, Melody Maxwell, Kiefer Jundt, Jose Cruz
Planning Committee:
Odilia Garcia, MPHSA President
Anton Johnson, MPHSA Member
Ivory Patterson, MPHSA Vice President
Melinda Domingo, MPHSA Member
Melody Maxwell, MPHSA Secretary
Anthony Nixon, MPHSA Member
Kiefer Jundt, MPHSA Treasurer
Taniqua Ingol, MPHSA Member
Jose Cruz, MPHSA Publicity Chair
Kierra Barnett, MPHSA Member
Kierra Barnett, MPHSA Member
Lexxus Brown, MPHSA Member
Dawn Williams, MPHSA Advisor
Leah Mitchell, MPHSA Member
Elizabeth Hope, Division of Health Services Management and Policy
Natalie Brooks, MPHSA Member
Dr. Darryl B. Hood, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Nikki Johnson, MPHSA Member
Thank You!
DIPHS is made possible with the dedication and commitment of many individuals.
We would like to thank our speakers, panelists, and attendees, without whom this event would not be a success.
We would like to extend a special thanks to our sponsors for their support and commitment to diversity: