Please view the below 2024-25 Fellowship year for an example of the schedule and what the meetings entail. The schedule is subject to change each year. All meetings correspond to our core competencies and follow one of three series:

• Skill Building

• Best Practices 

• Peer Mentoring

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2024

 

April

Special Event: All-Day Orientation 9 am - 5 pm, The United Way (Houston, TX)

Skill Building Series and Best Practices for Fellows Series - ASFHG Staff

Mandatory in-person for all Fellows

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May

Special Event: Evening of Difference (Poster presentation and graduation of Fellows, welcoming of all new Fellows)

250 Stakeholders attend, light bites (Houston, TX) 

In-person, no virtual option

 

Monthly Meeting: 6 - 8 pm (Virtual)

Best Practices - Public Health, Peer Mentoring

1. National Convening of Fellows - 270 Fellows from around the country are divided into health tracks for networking and sharing of resources.

2. ASFHG Public Health Training - Developing a logic model as a tool to plan, implement, and evaluate public health programs; Speaker: Joanna Hawkins, MPH, Junior Fellow Program Director

 

June

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)

Best Practices and Peer Mentoring

1. Assessing the needs of the community to build a public health program; Speaker: Carol Jacob, MPH, CHES, ASFHG Program Director & DEI Coordinator

2. Media training; Speaker: Kayla Semien, Director of Marketing, New Hope Housing

3. Wisdom of Your Peers

 

July

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)

Best Practices

1. The Relevance of Structural Competence on Health and Well-Being; Speaker: Dr. Kelechi Wright, PhD, LCPC, Assistant Professor at the University of Houston Department of African American Studies

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August

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)

Skill Building – Communication and Peer Mentoring

1. Developing an elevator pitch and networking; Speaker: Dr. Andrea Link, MD, ASFHG Executive Director 

2. Advice for new Fellows, and learning from Fellows For Life (FFLs) experiences; Speaker: Dr. David Savage, MD, ASFHG FFL / Scripps Health 

3. ASFHG FFL Panel

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September

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)

Skill Building Series – Leadership

1. Building trust with communities through understanding impact, active listening, and open communication; Speaker: Judy Le, President, TakeRoot Leadership Consulting and Coaching

 

Special Event: Celebration of Service Luncheon at Amegy Tower (Houston, TX) Optional, in-person only

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October

Monthly Meeting: 6 - 8 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)

Best Practices - Human Rights

1. Working for Equity and Justice: Exploring critical and compassionate practices for personal growth and social change through advocacy, policy, and community action; Speaker: Pancho Argüelles, Senior Director of Network and Power Building at The Praxis Project

2. Wisdom of Your Peers

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November

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)

Skill Building – Leadership

1. Adaptive Leadership; Speaker: Judy Le, President, TakeRoot Leadership Consulting and Coaching

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December

Special Event: 6 - 8 pm, Schweitzer Soiree with the Board at Dr. Link's House (in-person)

Skill Building - Communication and Networking

 

2025

 

January

Special Event: Winter Symposium 8:30am - 12 pm (in-person and virtual)

Skill Building - Communication and Networking, Peer Mentoring

Fellows present an update on their projects at a conference style morning with stakeholders in attendance

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February

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)

Skill Building - Self Care, Peer Mentoring

1. Healthy habits and meditation, FFL-led yoga session; Speaker: Shadhi Mansoori, MD/MPH Student at McGovern Medical School, ASFHG FFL

2. Wisdom of Your Peers

 

March

Monthly Meeting: TBD (in-person only)

​Service Learning Day

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May

Special Event: Evening of Difference TBD

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