The annual Ohio Latino Health Summit was hosted at the OSU Fawcett Center on October 8th this year in partnership with the Ohio Latino Affairs Commission, the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, and LULAC. The 2019 summit theme was “From Cultural Competency to Cultural Humility.” This theme was represented in presentations such as “Congregational Partnerships for Latino Health,” “Trauma Informed Principles through a Culturally Specific Lens,” a keynote speech from Lisa Stewart, Senior Engagement Officer with the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and more.
IMPACT’s own Laura Ornelas (red sweater) and Anais Fernandez gave accounts of their experience in our program during the first session of the portion of the summit focused on building capacity in the medical fields for care of multilingual, multicultural patients through education.
Cohorts 3 and 4 attended the summit as a field trip. IMPACT’s founder, Dr. Glenn Martinez, was a key coordinator of the Latino Health Summit and moderator of several sessions including that in which the IMPACT Program was showcased as an example of capacity building.
We would like to extend thanks to Dr. Martinez, as well as Lair Marin-Marcum of OCHLA and all others involved in the planning of the 2019 Ohio Latino Health Summit.