California State University, Northridge                 MPH Program     |     home

Application   |   Mission   |   Goals and Objectives   |   Values   |   Faculty   |   MPH Student Association   |   Most Commonly Asked Questions About the MPH   |   Instructional Program   |   Internship   |   Culminating Experience   |   Professional Opportunities   |   Alumni Association   |   Conditional Status   |   Bulletin Board   |   Related Links   |   What is CHES?   |   MPH 2005 Accreditation Report   |   Contact Us   |   Cultural Assessment in Health Education and Health Promotion Workshop

Continuing Education Workshop

Workshop Title:     Cultural Assessment in Health Education and Health Promotion

Workshop Overview

This workshop will focus on design considerations when conducting cultural assessment surveys as part of a health education practitioner's formative evaluation process for designing culturally sensitive and tailored public health interventions. Practitioners representing both academic and healthcare field settings will provide participants with knowledge and skills designed to enhance their expertise in designing cultural assessment tools for the settings they work in. A practitioner panel will share their experiences in cultural assessment design, implementation and evaluation with an emphasis on what worked, barriers that were encountered, and tips for developing cultural assessment surveys. Participants will then have an opportunity to engage in an experiential exercise in which they will work in teams to develop a basic cultural assessment instrument based on a case study provided to them. Teams will then present their tools for discussion with the Workshop Presenters and other participants.

Objectives

Following participation in the workshop, the participant will be able to:

List and discuss at least five elements that must be considered in the design of any survey instrument.

Identify the five major components of the Cultural Assessment Framework.

Design a basic cultural assessment instrument using a case study provided in the workshop.

Identify at least three ethical concerns when working with multicultural population groups.

Workshop Outline

7:30 - 8:30a.m.     Registration check-in and continental breakfast

8:30 - 8:45a.m.     Welcome and overview of the day's activities

Welcoming comments from Dr. Helen Castillo, Dean of the College of Health and Human Development.

Welcoming comments from Joy Guihama, MPH, President, MPH Alumni Association.

Workshop overview and introduction of workshop facilitators and presenters, Dr Robert Huff, Program Director, MPH Program in Health Education.

8:45 - 9:05 a.m.     Survey Design Basics (Dr. Vicki Ebin)

Overview and considerations in basic survey design

Designing an instrument

Considerations and approaches to survey analysis

9:05 - 10:00 a.m.     The Cultural Assessment Framework (Dr. Robert Huff)

The purpose for cultural assessment

Components of the Cultural Assessment Framework

Design considerations and challenges

Ethical concerns when working cross-culturally (Lissa Knudson, MPH Candidate)

10:00 - 10:15 a.m.     Break

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.     Cultural Assessment: examples from the field (Panel: Diane

                                     Visencio, UCLA; Donna Ryan, Holy Cross Hospital; Nina

                                      Vacarro, MEND).

10:45 - 12:15 a.m.     Designing cultural assessment instruments: an experiential exercise

                                    (Dr. Huff)

Form design groups

Present exercise activities and supporting case study

Conduct exercise

Process exercise

12:15 - 12:30 p.m.     Final comments and wrap-up (all presenters)

12:30 p.m.          Questions and Answers, adjournment and posttest

For Additional Information

For additional information please contact Dr. Robert Huff at robert.huff@csun.edu or call Dr. Huff at 818.677.2997.