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We're happy to share some of the conference proceedings for those who were not able to join us in person! We're sharing select slides and recordings of presentations - simply click on the links in the agenda below!
Friday, September 30, 2022
Session One: Caregiving as a Public Health Priority
Featured Speaker:
Courtney Van Houtven, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health Science, Duke University School of Medicine and Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Research Scientist, Health Services Research and Development in Primary Care at the Durham Veteran’s Administration
Moderator:
Richard Schulz
Session Synopsis:
Currently, family caregiving is treated as a private health issue, leading to consequences that remain unaddressed by the public health system. This presentation will define public health to demonstrate that family caregiving is a public health issue. Then, risk factors and consequences of family caregiving that could be addressed by the U.S. public health system will be contrasted with the ways in which they are not addressed by private health systems, employers, and policies.
Session Two: Understudied Caregiver Population
Featured Speakers:
Ann-Marie Rosland, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Director, Caring for Complex Chronic Conditions Research Center
Core Investigator, VA Pittsburgh Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
Director, High Risk Network and Analytic Core, VA Office of Primary Care
Ranak Trivedi, PhD
Director of Caregiving and Family Systems, Stanford Center for Asian Health Research
and Education (CARE)
Assistant Professor, University Medical Line, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
Moderator:
Beth Fields, PhD, OTR/L, BCG
Project PI, National RRTC on Family Support, University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session Synopsis:
It is critical to include historically understudied and marginalized populations in caregiving research, but researchers are not adequately trained to successfully engage these communities. Research methods and findings from two exemplar caregiver intervention studies will be presented along with lessons learned about barriers and facilitators to successfully engaging individuals from historically understudied or marginalized populations in research, from inception to dissemination.