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Isamu named to nat’l health advisory body
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Posted on Jan 03 2001
Department of Public Health Secretary Joseph Kevin Villagomez has announced that Dr. Isamu J. Abraham, Special Advisor for Health in CNMI for the past three years, has been selected by the US Department of Health & Human Services’ Secretary Donna Shalala to the National Advisory Committee on Minority Health for two years.
DHHS has appointed 12 members to the Secretary’s new Advisory Committee on Minority Health on Dec. 28, 2000. They will meet four times a year.
The 12 committee members have expertise on a wide range of health issues including the unique challenges facing minorities in rural and urban communities, children, women, elders, people with disabilities, mental illness and AIDS.
In its effort to address minority health issues to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities by the year 2010, DHHS will focus on six key areas, namely” infant mortality, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer screening and management, HIV/AIDS and childhood and adult immunization.
The advisory committee, created by the Health Professions Education Partnerships Act of 1998, will be chaired by Louis Stokes, a lawyer, former congressman from Ohio, a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The new members come from eight states, the District of Columbia, and one U.S. Pacific territory with three members each from Black/African-American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian American and Pacific Islander and Hispanic/Latino communities.
