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- Champions for Health
A CMA Foundation Champion for Health is a health care professional who is an expert in their field with a passion for improving patient and community health. A Champion is someone who would like the opportunity to educate their peers and the public in the hopes of improving health outcomes at an individual and community level.
- AWARE
(Alliance Working for Antibiotic Resistance Education):
Our coalition includes over 80 partners and more than 200
volunteers. The goals of the Project include: (1) Change
physician and health provider behavior in prescribing antibiotics,
(2) Increase consumer awareness, understanding and behavior
about the appropriate use of antibiotics and (3) Mobilize
communities to reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics.
- California
Medicine and Public Health Initiative:
The Initiative was created out of a desire to build medicine
and public health collaboration throughout California in
order to improve community health.
- Carlo Joseph Geraldi Medical Student Scholarship:
The Carlo Joseph Geraldi Medical Student Scholarship funds will be used to assist medical students attending a California medical school (either MD or DO), who are in financial need and desire to be a primary care physician (This includes pediatricians, internists, family practice, and OB-GYN). The intent is to defray tuition for the scholarship recipient(s).
- Cervical Cancer/HPV Project
The CMA Foundation has initiated a project addressing the
link between Human Papillomavirus [HPV] and Cervical Cancer.
- Diabetes Quality Improvement Project:
This statewide diabetes and cardiovascular disease improvement initiative aims to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and improve the quality of care provided to diabetic patients. It will do so through collaborations with providers, patients and health plans to improve healthcare delivery and engage patients to better manage their disease.
- Ethnic
Physician Organization Project:
Over 40 ethnic physician organizations have formed a Network
with the goal of addressing: (1) health disparities, (2)
diversity in the workforce, (3) access to care and (4) cultural
competency at the local community and state level.
- Medical
Student Community Leadership Grant Program:
To encourage our future physicians to engage in community
health and pursue excellence in practice, the CMA Foundation
provides grants to medical student organizations around
the state.
- Obesity Prevention Project:
Our purpose is to reduce the prevalence of overweight and
obesity in children and their families through education,
community outreach, advocacy and provider resources.
- Prescription
for Wellness:
Through regional workshops, the Foundation supports practicing
physicians and their organizations who are working at the
community level to improve health. We provide training and
technical assistance in collaboration and partnership building
for physicians.
- Women's
Health Initiative:
The purpose of the Initiative is to improve communication
between physicians and their women patients, increase collaboration
between physicians organizations, women's organizations,
consumer groups, and government agencies. Currently, the
Initiative is focusing on osteoporosis.
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