Come to Drexel FIRST Health Equity Seminar on Thursday, December 15th from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST in Nesbitt Hall Rm 132 and via Zoom!

Join the Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program for their Health Equity Seminar series, a Drexel-wide forum to discuss exciting work and ideas related to health equity.

This monthly series includes Drexel-based and invited external speakers whose work is relevant to health disparities research, ranging from etiology to intervention and policy.

This month attendees will hear from Ana Martinez-Donate, PhD, Professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health.

Talk title: “Building Community Capacity to Promote Latino Health in Philadelphia”

Martinez-Donate will describe the development and implementation of a 5-year long community-engaged research program focused on reducing Latino health disparities in Philadelphia.

Dr. Martinez-Donate will share findings and lessons from this work and discuss the next steps to continue building capacity for health equity among Latino communities of Philadelphia.