5th Annual Maine Minority Health Conference CHALLENGE: Raising the Bar for Health Equity in Maine

PORTLAND, Maine – The City of Portland Public Health Division’s Minority Health Program in collaboration with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office of Health Equity, Down East AIDS Network & Health Equity Alliance, Medical Care Development, Healthy Androscoggin, Maine Migrant Health Program, Maine AIDS Education and Training Center (MEAETC), and Bates College will host the 5th Annual Maine Minority Health Conference from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday June 3rd, 2015 at Bates College’s Olin Arts Center at 75 Russell Street, Lewiston, Maine.  The conference theme is “Advancing Health Equity in Maine through Community Health Workers (CHWs).” The conference is free and open to the public.

Conference highlights will include an opening keynote by Jason Turi of the nationally renowned