Lauda Wellness Lecture 2018

 

Aging is a global phenomenon that poses both challenges and opportunities for creative solutions and collaborations.  Some of the issues facing aging societies everywhere are diverse needs and rapid growth in the context of limited resources, various sources of vulnerability, and a limited workforce to promote healthy and engaged aging. In this talk, we will highlight several of the collaborative efforts between CSULB College of Health and Human Services and community partners to develop sustainable partnerships and solutions to respond to an aging society.

 

Iveris L. Martinez is the Archstone Endowed Chair in Gerontology and Director of the Center for Successful Aging at Long Beach State University. She was previously with Florida International University where she served as Associate Director of Population Health and Aging and taught on health disparities and social determinants of health at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Martinez is an applied anthropologist who has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the MacArthur Foundation, and others for her research on social and cultural factors influencing health, with an emphasis in aging, Latinos, and minority populations. Her current interests include addressing disparities in services for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s and related dementias, as well as interprofessional efforts to create age-friendly communities. She served as the Chair of the Board of the Alliance for Aging, Inc., the local area agency on aging for Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties and President of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course. She has a joint Ph.D. in Anthropology and Population & Family Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University.

 

Gail Farmer, Dr.P.H.

Dr. Gail Farmer is a former Associate Dean for Research at CHHS, and a former Chair in the Department of Health Science.  Currently, she is the Director of the Center for Disability Studies and Scholarship at CSULB and a current professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Science.  Her area of specialization encompasses comprehensive needs assessments as well as the development, implementation, and evaluation of community-based programs for government and nonprofit organizations.  In conducting these projects, particular effort is made to work with community & faith-based organizations to access the vulnerable “hard-to-reach” populations.  Her mission is to empower a community in the development and implementation of culturally/linguistically appropriate programs that are sustainable and reduce disparities.  In 2017, she was the recipient of the CHHS Community Service Award.  Her community-based collaborative programs during the past 29 years totaled an amount of $1,618,138 awarded external funding.

 

Proposal Title: Creating a Culture of Health within the AGM Community

 

Grace Reynolds, D.P.A., Professor, Health Care Administration Dept., will be responsible for the initiation and management of all project activities in collaboration with Co-Investigator, Dr. Sandhya Shimoga.  Dr. Reynolds is Director of the Center for Behavioral Research and Services.  From 2000-2014 CBRS maintained an off-campus location that housed many community-based projects, including a project on the assessment of older adults funded by the Mental Health Association of Greater Los Angeles (Hess, Fisher, Pilon, Reynolds & Ruiz, 2016).  She was evaluation manager on several Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAHMSA) grants, as well as on several grants funded through the County of Los Angeles Dept. of Public Health and the City of Long Beach Health Dept. She was project manager on the Behavioral Science Aspects of Rapid Test Acceptance R01 grant, which was a randomized trial of point-of-care (POC) rapid tests funded by the National Institutes of Health.   She has received external funding for her research from the California HIV Research Program (CHRP). 

 

Proposal Title: Navigator Link: A Community-Academic Partnership Pilot Program

 

 

 

Vennila Krishnan, PT, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Department of Physical Therapy and is the Director of the CRAB Laboratory at California State University, Long Beach. Her main interest is to develop novel rehabilitation interventions that are effective in treating individuals with various neurological disorders; In addition, she investigates the cognitive-motor interference in older adults and the influence of pathological aging during dual-tasking activities. 

 

Proposal Title:  Multicomponent Dual-Task and Single-Task Interventions to Reduce Risk of Falling in Community Dwelling Older Adults