Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at The University of New Mexico

Barrett Whitener, Senior Communication Manager with IQ Solutions in Washington, DC, presented at the 2012 Fall Orientation. His presentation offered tips and suggestions for effective academic research speeches and presentations.

Dr. Nina Wallerstein, Professor, Public Health Program at UNM, presented her findings on Community-Based Participatory Research As a Path to Health Equity: The Role of Research Teams, Researcher Identity and Mentorship, as part of the RWJF 2012 Spring Lecture Series/Summer Institute in Community-Based Participatory Research for Health on May 31.

The RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM is dedicated to increasing the diversity of health policy leaders in the social, behavioral and health sciences and nursing. The RWJF Center's goal is to increase the number of social and health scientists from Latino, American Indian and other racial and ethnic communities underrepresented in these fields.

As part of the RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM's Spring 2012 Lecture Series, Dr. Janet K. Shim presented her findings on Embodied Inequality: Heart Disease and the Politics of Causation. The presentation discussed how race, ethnicity and gender play significant roles in how heart disease is diagnosed and treated.

Dr. Sally Cohen, Dr. Robert Valdez and Ken Lucero, of the RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM, give an overview of health policy from a medical and educational viewpoint. This presentation was part of the Roadmap to Healthy Communities conference held April 12-13 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

As part of the RWJF Center for Health Policy's Spring 2012 Lecture Series, Dr. Spero Manson, Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Center, discussed "Advances in Preventing Diabetes Among Native People" at the University of New Mexico on March 8.