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Date(s) - 04/11/2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Access to healthcare isn’t just about availability – it’s about trust, language, culture, and context. This webinar explores how culturally adaptive approaches can reduce barriers and improve healthcare outcomes for historically underserved communities. Drawing on lessons learned from a study of 62 Project ECHO programs in the United States and Canada, we’ll examine how healthcare practitioners and advocates can meet patients where they are – by honouring cultural perspectives, addressing systemic inequities, and fostering authentic engagement. Lessons learned from our project has practical lessons for all intercultural practitioners attempting to reach unique and diverse audiences.
What is Project ECHO? Prompted by a patient’s tragic outcome due to lack of local specialty care to treat Hepatitis C, Project ECHO was created in 2003 to connect rural healthcare providers in New Mexico with specialists via collaborative telementoring sessions. From one project in the United States, today there are around 2,800 active ECHO programs in 202 countries, with around 200,000 healthcare workers trained, and impacting more than 80 million patients. The speed and diffusion of ECHO is unparalleled.
Important: this event will take place over Zoom and is open to anyone interested in this topic. You must register to participate. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
About the speaker
Nagesh Rao is Professor of Social Medicine at the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio. He has held senior leadership roles including Special Adviser to the Dean for Faculty Affairs and Inclusion and Department Chair; Ohio University’s Chair, University International Council; and President of MICA, India’s premier communication institute.
With over three decades of global experience across five continents, Nagesh’s research and practice explore how intercultural communication fosters healthier individuals and communities. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR,) and the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A seasoned consultant, trainer, and coach, Nagesh integrates cultural competence and humility to develop inclusive leaders in health, education, and business. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, top medical schools, and global nonprofits. He has served as senior faculty at the Intercultural Communication Institute and is currently an advisor at the Institute for Developing Across Differences.