BUILDING A PERMANENT BRIDGE:
“Yes, we are ready! That’s my dream!”
“Yes, we are ready! That’s my dream!”
FOLLOW UP EVENTS TO THE DECEMBER 2011 MEETING OF MONTAGNARD FORMER PHYSICIANS, US PHYSICIANS AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS
Poster presentation for Society for Applied Anthropology. Montagnard doctors are ready to help.
H Wier Siu, Kwol Ksa, Khin H, Andrew Young, Community Health Worker Team (Project Shine). Over 200 documented individuals in the Montagnard community helped by the team, administered by UNCG Family, Youth and Community Partnerships (2010-11) and Reading Connections (2011-2012). The Team identified most of the former doctors and made initial contacts. Additional capacity-building research identifying and meeting US-trained Montagnard health professionals. Through June 2012.
Andrew Young: Medical English Class meets weekly to assist Montagnard doctors studying to become medical interpreters. Discussion of community health problems, folk medicine, cultural approaches to medicine and health, traditions of Vietnamese and Chinese medicine. January to present.
H Wier Siu and Khin H participated in a focus group with Latino community members, part of a Moses Cone Foundation-funded study on health access.
Center for New North Carolinians: Community Health Workers (Project ACCESS). H Dera Nie, a health major at UNCG and H Nu Ksor, former medical student in Vietnam, join Snow Rahlan to build capacity to tackle community health problems.
Kwol Ksa, Khin H, Andrew Young: Cooperative Extension Garden Plots. Four community garden plots obtained with the support of the Coop Extension office. Three impoverished Montagnard families who live nearby recruited to participate and raise supplemental food.
Huaibo Xin, Andrew Young, Sharon Morrison, et al: Interviews with Montagnard Former Physicians, March 2012.
Huaibo Xin, Andrew Young, Sharon Morrison, Jigna Dharod, Maura Nsonwu: “Bridging the Gap Between Montagnard Refugee Community and American Medical Society”. Poster presentation at Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2012.
Andrew Young, Gelly Long, Lek Siu, Ha H, Jeo Y: “Sustainability for Everyone: Rethinking Piedmont Ideas About Green, Living and Local” is a video that won 2nd place in UNCG’s Sustainability Film Shorts competition, March 2012.
H Wier Siu, Kwol Ksa, Khin H, Andrew Young: Women’s Learning Group. Neighborhood-based language and health class for Montagnard refugee women, combined with gardening, food production and community-building. $2800 grant awarded by Building Stronger Neighborhoods, April 2012.
Sharon Morrison, Andrew Young, et al: Slideshow presentation, Montagnard Health Disparities Research Network (Summary of on-going research work), April 2012
