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Health association
Star-Bulletin staff
leader Bird to speak at
Tokai tomorrowMichael Bird, president-elect of the American Health Association, will be a key speaker at the Hawaii Public Health Association's annual meeting tomorrow at Tokai University.
"Eliminating Health Disparities: Promoting Health Equity," is the meeting's theme. Other speakers will be Ira Pollack, regional manager of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region IX, and Dr. Claire Hughes, state Health Department Office of Health Parity.
Bird, born in Santa Fe, N.M., was the first Native American chairman of the Board of the American Public Health Association and, last November, became the first Native American to serve a president-elect of the association in 127 years.
He has worked with Native American and Alaska native populations and has assisted Papa Ola Lokahi and native Hawaiian Health Care Systems.
He has a master's of social work degree from the University of Utah and a master's of public health degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
He attended the University of Hawaii School of Public Health in the last year of his master's program.
