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Webinar Title

Fresno County Mobile Health Program

Description

Dr. Solis will be providing an overview of the Fresno County Rural Mobile Health Program, which she helped develop and now coordinates for the Fresno County Department of Public Health. The Rural Mobile Health Program offers medical services at no-cost to agricultural workers and people living in the rural communities of Fresno County to improve health and prevent disease. As part of this program, local physicians provide medical services with their mobile health units at agricultural workplaces and community centers. Fresno County's Community Health Worker (CHW) Network also assists with the rural mobile health clinics and provides wraparound care coordination services.

Learning Objectives

• Describe common barriers to accessing healthcare in rural areas.
• Provide an overview of the Fresno County Rural Mobile Health Program.
• Apply lessons learned from the Fresno County Rural Mobile Health Program to policy, system, and environmental initiatives to improve public health in rural communities.

Presenter

Trinidad Solis, MD, MPH is the Deputy Health Officer for the Fresno County Department of Public Health. Her duties include guiding Fresno County’s health response to disease outbreak and assisting with health programs that promote chronic disease prevention. She also coordinates the department’s Rural Mobile Health Program, which aims to make healthcare access more equitable for farmworkers and for people living in Fresno County’s rural areas. Dr. Solis finished medical school at UCSF’s School of Medicine and then completed her family medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. She also obtained an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.