National Council of Urban Indian Health Attended the National Minority Health Mons 2016 HHS Health Equality Forum
National Council of Urban Indian Health attended the National Minority Health Month 2016 Health Equity Forum on April 7th, 2016. The theme for the event was “Accelerating Health Equity for the Nation”. This event also celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the creation of the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH), to ensure everyone has the ability to achieve health equity.
A timeline video highlighted all the successes of OMH since 1986, including the creation of the American Indian and Alaska Native Health Research Advisory Council (HRAC)
in 2006. Technical Assistance and Research Director, Kimberly Fowler was in attendance at the forum, which included keynote remarks by Dr. Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, HHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Health. The forum led by the Director of the Office of Minority Health, Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, featured as a presenter President Obama’s newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Education, John B. King, Jr. MA, JD, EdD.
