Alberta Health Services and its partners invites clinicians, researchers, educators, advocates, families, students, volunteers and members of community organizations to participate in the Second National Transcultural Health Conference to be held May 2-4, 2010 in Calgary, Alberta. Our conference theme is “Multiple Voices for Enhancing Health Equity through Research, Policy, Education, and Clinical Practice.”

The first national conference held in Montreal in 2007 drew a multidisciplinary group of over 200 participants in healthcare, education, community work and policy. It served to identify effective models of health care and strategies for clients from diverse ethnoracial and Aboriginal backgrounds. The Second National conference will expand on these themes and provide attendees with the opportunity to consider and explore areas such as collaborative professional practice, issues of cultural knowledge and advocacy, the development of cultural competence, and the experience of clients, practitioners and policy makers from the perspective of diversity.

The conference is preceded by a full-day learning institute. During these three days, we are especially interested in exploring multicultural diversity in clinical practice, education, and research. As such, we welcome abstracts for consideration for both the conference break-out sessions and pre-conference learning institute. The topics for these two separate events are slightly different yet speak to the overall theme of the conference.

Join us in this unique cross cultural health event in May 2010 in Calgary. Visit the conference website for more information on Call for Proposals and Submission form at http://www.sacyhn.ca/2010transculturalconference