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2005
HBI-DC assists seven Korean churches in the DC, MD, and VA area with setting up hepatitis B education, free screening, and vaccination events. HBI-DC also launched a pilot program for developing a faith-based model for Chinese communities.
2004
HBI-DC hosts the first Pastor's Luncheon for Korean pastors in the DC metro area to brainstorm ways of addressing hepatitis B prevention in their congregations. HBI-DC celebrates API Heritage Month and Hepatitis Awareness Month with
an educational seminar in English and Korean and a focus group to review
existing national Korean language materials for hepatitis B. Hsu speaks
at Hepatitis B Foundation and Bristol-Myers Squibb "AIM
for the B" educational forum. HBI is being taught as a case
study in Harvard Medical School's Physician in Community Spring 2004
course.
2003
The name of the organization was shortened from The Hepatitis B Education
and Prevention in Boston Initiative to The Hepatitis B Initiative (HBI).
Leslie Hsu and husband, Thomas Oh, launches faith-based hepatitis B
initiative in DC metro area. Hsu testifies
in front of President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders. Here is a copy of her testimony.
Hsu is also nominated as Northeast Regional Director of the National
Taskforce on Hepatitis B: Focus on Asians and Pacific Islanders and
Board member of the National Viral Hepatitis
Roundtable.
2002
To celebrate HBI's fifth anniversary a retreat was organized in October,
where co-founder Leslie Hsu and many former HBI student leaders and
advisors gathered to discuss the future of HBI. One product of the retreat
was a Reorganization Steering Committee, which was formed to assist
with continuity issues of the organization. Subway ad campaign was designed.
5
year anniversary Retreat
2001
Sharewood
clinic was relocated to Malden, Massachusetts. Outreach events were
held at the DragonBoat Festival and Autumn Moon Festival. Begin discussions
to expand to Dorchester, Massachusetts, chaperoning several groups of
Vietnamese patients from Dorchester to Chinatown in the meantime.
2000
Improved services at South Cove Community Health Center and Sharewood
by instituting full panel screenings. Began outreach to providers by
creating packets for Chinese and Vietnamese doctors. Results from patient
surveys indicate that word of mouth recommendation is the best outreach
method.
1999
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (at that time known as
Health Care Financing Administration) threw a kick off event on March
30 at South Cove Community Health Center. An Advisory Board was set
up of leaders from the community, faculty, and representaties of the
Department of Health. This web site was launched. A video
about HBI was also created and featured on the Surgeon General's web
site as a model program.
1998
In January, the mass media campaign was launched in Boston Chinatown.
A Toll-free line was setup. Community leaders walked us through Chinatown
putting up posters and brochures, information kits for local newspapers
and schools, talks at neighborhood council meetings, skits performed
at health fairs, and appearances on local radio talk shows. A "big
sibling" program was set up so that patients were paired with students
who could provide one-on-one hepatitis B education. Incentives were
offered to encourage patients to return for follow-up visits. Volunteer
manuals were developed as the program expanded and new students became
involved.
1997
Leslie D. Hsu who was a first year student at Harvard School of Public
Health and Michael K. Tran who was a first year student at Harvard Medical
School founded The Hepatitis B Education and Prevention in Boston Initiative
(HEP B Initiative). They recruited students from other professional
schools in the area and organized them into four teams.
The
needs assessment team interviewed local community, medical, and government
leaders, met with faculty advisors, conducted surveys of AAPI youth
at local health fairs, researched model vaccination programs, and identified
key business, government, and foundation contacts for resource development.
The
clinic team began discussions with South Cove Community Health Center
and Sharewood Health Clinic, as possible screening/vaccination sites.
Beth
Irael-Deaconess Medical Center donated 400 hepatitis B screenings and
Merck & Co. donated 600 doses of hepatitis B vaccines.
The
outreach team worked with the community to develop storefront posters
and brochures in Chinese, English, and Vietnamese. The resource team
worked on getting funding and in-kind donations like Ben and Jerry's
free ice cream coupons or McDonald's coupons that we could offer those
that came in for their screenings.
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