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Benefits

鈥⑻齀mprove your professional communication skills with native Spanish speakers. Spanish speakers are one of the largest and fastest growing populations in the U.S.

鈥⑻鼴e prepared to take the Bilingual Communicative Ability Test (BICAT) administered by the State of New Jersey Civil Service Commission.

Tuition and Fees

Normal undergraduate tuition and tuition related fees apply to all academic courses (Tuition Information) for undergraduate students. In addition, all relevant non-tuition related charges (e.g., parking fees, dishonored check fees, etc.) apply. Please, contact Office of Student Accounts听for payment information.

SPANISH FOR HEALTH CARE AND HUMAN SERVICES PROFESSIONALS

Diversity in Health Care and Human Services II: An Interdisciplinary Approach –听Conference Schedule

Monday, October 21, 2019

9:15 a.m. – Registration

9:30 a.m. –听Welcome by Cathy Davey, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Executive Director/Ex-Officio of the 缅北重口 Foundation and Natalia Santamaria Laorden, Associate Professor of Spanish and Projector Investigator of the UISFL federal grant.

9:55 – 11:15 a.m. –听First Panel: The Economic Advantage of a Diversity Approach in Health Care and Human Services

Chair: Susan Hangen, Dean of the School of Humanities and Global Studies
Panelists:
– Allison Banks-Moore, CDO at Horizon BCBSNJ.
– Oscar Holmes IV, Professor of Management, Rutgers University.
– Quincy Bloxom, Director of Operations, Anti- Poverty Network of NJ.

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. –听鈥淩ace, Medicine, and Justice鈥� by keynote speaker Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. Professor of听 and Director of the Program on Race, Science and Society at University of Pennsylvania.

Presented by Amanda Roberti, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 缅北重口 of New Jersey.

1 – 2 p.m. –听 LUNCH

2:15 – 3:55 p.m. – Second Panel: Bilingual Narratives

Chair: John McTighe, Associate Professor of Social Work, 缅北重口 of New Jersey.
Panelists:
– Edgar Rivera Col贸n, Lecturer and Medical Anthropologist, Columbia University.
– Carmen King Ramirez, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Arizona University.
– Daisy Rodr铆guez, Associate Director of Counselling, Health and Wellness, William Paterson University.

4 – 5:15 p.m.听 – Reception and Presentation of the Peruvian Study Abroad Program

Peru: Community Health & Human Services Study Abroad Program

4 credits

(Director of Roukema Center, Ben Levy and Spanish Professors Paula Straile-Costa and Natalia Santamaria Laorden.)

Conference Brochure (PDF)

Diversity in Health Care and Human Services: Sharing Teaching Practices on Addressing the Spanish Speaking Population –听Conference Schedule

Conference Brochure (PDF)