http://videos.med.wisc.edu Cultural Diversity videos at the Health Sciences Learning Center (c) 2007, UW Board of Regents. All rights reserved. http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=9566 The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Psychiatry show a socio-cultural approach to suicide risk assessment. This vignette highlights a Latina girl (who is acting this part). Presented by 07/02/2009 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=7998 Presented by S. Bidar-Sielaff 04/22/2009 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=3234 Rosalind Gregory-Bass, MD, MS, speaks about her experience developing curricula and programs geared toward improving the admission of African American men and women in graduate and professional schools. She serves as a consultant to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health Office of Academic Affairs to develop new programs to increase the diversity of medical school applicants and to encourage practice in urban underserved areas. Presented by R. Gregory-Bass 06/09/2008 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=2642 Jennie Joe PhD, MPH discusses challenges in community-based participatory research, avenues for overcoming barriers, strategies for sustaining community partnerships and capacity building in communities. Presented by J. Joe 05/02/2008 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=2640 Presented by M. Gibbons 04/29/2008 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=2638 Clinical investigation has traditionally focused on conditions that are best studied in controlled environments. Furthermore, women have only been equitably represented among participants enrolled during the last 10-15 years. Thus, many of the findings of such studies have been difficult to translate into less controlled environments such as the community or into underrepresented minority and disadvantaged groups. Strategies to incorporate diverse populations groups into research in the academic health center and the community setting are discussed. One such strategy is the use of community advisory boards that provide community stakeholders a voice in the projects implemented in their communities. Incorporating community advisory boards as well as attending to the principles of community-oriented research facilitate and encourage research that contributes positively to the health of communities and the elimination of health disparities. Presented by J. South-Paul 04/23/2008 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=2828 Pang Vang describes the hmong culture, analyzes common health issues in the hmong community, identifies barriers and facilitators to hmong accessing healthcare and illustrates solutions to connect western health science and the hmong's perception of health. Presented by P. Vang 04/10/2008 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=2740 Presented by L. Arndt 04/04/2008 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=2663 James Eastman, MD has lived and practiced pathology in Lancaster County, PA for nearly 30 years during which time he also served as Chief of Microbiology and Immunology and then as Director of Laboratories for Lancaster General Hospital. Lancaster has the oldest and one of the largest communities of Older Order Amish in this country. As an outgrowth of their religious beliefs and heritage, the Amish chose to remain separate from the mainstream, and thus constitute an ethnically, culturally and genetically distinct population. The interactions between the Amish community and the surrounding modern world (the "English" as the Amish refer) are complex and often puzzling to those of us not of the Amish community. Eastman has spent part of his career working to understand the beliefs and practices of this community, particularly those that might impact on Amish attitudes about health care. In particular he has worked with Holmes Mort on and Kevin Strauss at the Clinic for Special Children (Strasburg PA) in the study of the metabolic and genetic diseases that are common in the Amish and Mennonite communities. This unique practice setting, built and financially supported by the Amish, blends effective therapy, compassionate care, and cutting-edge metabolic and genetic research in the ultimate translational model. Eastman currently works on continuing to bridge the divide between rural communities in both the medical and legal setting, and further investigating the diseases and health needs specific to the Amish ad Mennonite populations. Presented by J. Eastman 04/01/2008 http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=2661 Kathy Oriel, MD, MS, gives an overview of health issues for the lesbian, gay and transgendered patients and two patients share their stories. Presented by K. Oriel 03/25/2008