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2009 Helen Rodriguez-Trias Awardee
October 3-15 Binational Health Week in Little Rock, AR- See Video
Venus Ginés, founder of Día de la Mujer Latina participates with First Lady Michelle Obama in event to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month View the complete video of the event on C-SPAN.org or View event video on Whitehouse.gov
On May 4, 2009, Dr. Fonseca-Becker, Chair of the Latino Caucus for Public Health, was invited to Capitol Hill by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to participate in a Health Reform Round Table. She was asked to make an introductory statement on "Closing the Disparities Gap for Hispanics through Public Health and Prevention in Minority Communities". The other two statements were presented by the Directors from the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) on insurance issues, and from the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) on workforce shortage issues and competent care in Hispanic communities. Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez who is working directly with President Obama on Latino related issues, and Congresswoman Roybal-Allard chaired the session which was attended by six other Latino members of Congress, and by representatives of over thirty other national organizations working on Latino health related issues. Dr. Fonseca-Becker and the other two presenters were tasked by Congresswomen Velazques and Roybal-Allard to lead working groups and prepare consensus documents on the three topics with the goal of providing a strong contribution to the administration's health reform efforts, and to give a united voice to the Latino Health Community. The final recommendations from the working groups were incorporated into a document used by the CHC in the health care reform debates. See photos from the CHC Roundtable