Office of Health Equity

Leave No Veteran Behind: Advancing Veteran Health and Wellbeing Cyberseminar Series

Upcoming Session:
Wednesday, April 8, 2025
12PM - 1PM (ET)

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Title: Improving Care for Veterans with Concerns about Military Environmental Exposures

Description:

This presentation will describe factors that can influence Veteran’s engagement in and satisfaction with healthcare related to military environmental exposures (e.g., Agent Orange, airborne hazards). It will discuss specific factors associated with trust in the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ ability to care for Veterans with health concerns related to military environmental exposures including how applying a learning healthcare system model to ongoing efforts at the practitioner and policy level can improve trust in VA.

Speakers:

Katharine Bloeser, LICSW, PhD
Health Science Specialist
War Related Illness and Injury Study
Evaluation Lead
Exposure Related Care Transformation Center
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Assistant Professor
Silberman School of Social Work
Hunter College

Intended audience
Researchers, clinicians, care coordinators, policy makers, educators, data analysts, Veteran stakeholders and representatives of vulnerable Veteran groups who are interested in understanding and/or promoting equitable health among all Veterans.

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 About the Focus on Health Equity and Action Cyberseminars

The VHA Office of Health Equity (OHE) in partnership with the VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) launched the Focus on Health Equity and Action Cyberseminars.  Each cyberseminar spotlights activities that promote the implementation of the VHA Health Equity Action Plan (HEAP), and aims to:

1. Catalyze, synergize, and coordinate VHA programs, projects, and initiatives to effectively identify, understand, seek and implement solutions to diminish and where possible eliminate health disparities;
2. Demonstrate alignment with other federal partners working to achieve health equity;
3. Bring focus to VHA efforts to provide a more equitable, individualized and patient-driven health care delivery system;
4. Improve overall quality of care through equity in all policies and the achievement of health equity for all;
5. Incorporate the innovative ideas and input of all users in order to encourage a bottom up approach while maintaining a strong connection to the overarching goals of the VA;
6. Capitalize on the existing network of advocates and programs in both administrative and clinical realms to weave health equity dialogue and cultural attunement into training and other activities within and outside the health care system; and
7. Serve as a guide and/or starting place that would remain a living document which is open to modification and adaptation to continuously meet the needs of the Veterans entrusted to the VHA.
   
   

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