On the Frontlines of Brain Health: How Nurses Can Drive Early Detection and Reduce Disparities
Webinar Details
In honor of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, this session will highlight the critical role nurses play in advancing brain health and preventing Alzheimer’s. It will also explore key insights on brain health, including disparities impacting Black and Latino communities and the importance of culturally responsive care. Attendees will learn how increased knowledge of brain health can inform early detection, patient engagement, and community education efforts. Fellows from the Brain Health Equity Nurse Fellowship will share how they apply these concepts in their day-to-day practice, along with effective strategies for communicating Alzheimer's risk reduction and early detection information to disproportionally affected communities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand disparities in brain health (i.e., how Alzheimer’s disproportionately impacts Black and Latino communities) and why targeted approaches are critical.
- Recognize how increased knowledge of brain health influences nurses’ approaches to early detection, patient engagement, and community education.
- Identify effective strategies for communicating Alzheimer’s risk reduction and early detection information to patient populations disproportionately affected by Alzheimer’s.
Speakers
Daphne Delgado
Vice President
Health Equity
Daphne Delgado is Vice President of Health Equity at UsAgainstAlzheimer’s (UsA2), where she works to promote brain health equity through the organization's priorities, initiatives and programmatic activities. Additionally, she leads the Center for Brain Health Equity's work, including the Brain Health Equity Nurse Fellowship and UsA2's partnership with the CDC. Daphne has over a decade of experience in government relations, coalition building, and public health and chronic disease prevention policy, using her experience to advocate on behalf of patients, caregivers, and community-based organizations. Prior to joining UsA2, Daphne worked at Trust for America's Health, YMCA of the USA, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and served as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Health Fellow for U.S. Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard. She was named as an Aspen Ideas Health Fellow in 2022. Daphne has a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology, a minor in Biology from Duke University and a Master of Public Health in Health Behavior from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She lives in Nashville.
Angela E. Dykes, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
Bio coming soon
Nora Hernandez Pupo, PhD, RN, COI, TNCC, WCSI
Caritas Coach & Caritas Leader
Bio coming soon
Adriana Perez, PhD, CRNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, FGSA,
Assistant Professor, UPenn School of Nursing
Senior Fellow, UPenn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Dr. Adriana Perez teaches Leadership Development in Health Care (NURS748) in the DNP program and has been acknowledged by Penn Nursing’s Graduate Student Organization with the Outstanding Nurse Educator Award. She has developed Social Justice sessions for ABSN students to foster dialogue and activate actions that address structural racism and advance health equity as students prepare to become nurses in today’s world. She is energized by Penn Nursing students and enjoys teaching, mentoring, and learning from them.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Nursing Education
One nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) credit is associated with this webinar; attendees must be present for the entire webinar and complete the evaluation to receive a certificate of completion.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.