School of Public Health Roundtable Series

The Changing Face of Minnesota Communities Now-2050: How Will Public Health Respond?

This event happened on December 4, 2008.

Featuring keynote speaker Tom Gillaspy.

Video

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• Welcome and Opening Remarks
  Debra Olson, John Finnegan, and Mitchell Davis
• The Changing Face of Minnesota Communities Now-2050: Overview and Implications
  Tom Gillaspy, PhD
• Panel Response
  Katherine Fennelly
  Jocelyn Ancheta
  Sean Kershaw
  Yusef Mgeni
  
• Discussion and Questions with the Audience

Minnesota is becoming increasingly diverse ethnically and racially. This and other demographic trends will only increase between now and the middle of the 21^st century. What are the health, economic, educational, and other implications of increased diversity for communities? How can community organizations, public health agencies, and academia respond proactively to make this transformation an opportunity for Minnesota's future?

Program Objectives

• Describe projections for changing demographics in Minnesota through 2050, with focus on racial and ethnic diversity.
• Describe how changing demographics will affect health, education, and economics of Minnesota communities through 2050, including opportunities and challenges.
• Describe how statewide initiatives/agencies, community organizations, and other entities are responding to health-related and other aspects of changing demographics in Minnesota.

Audience

For professionals, students, and faculty in public health and other fields interested in demographic changes and organizational responses to build healthy communities.

Keynote Speaker

Tom Gillaspy has served as the Minnesota State Demographer since 1979. During that time, he has been involved with a wide-ranging set of issues, applying an understanding of demographic trends in such areas as the state's economy, health care for an aging population, education, higher education, welfare reform, rural population change, labor shortages, immigration, housing, government spending, and the aging state workforce. The demographer is in the Minnesota Department of Administration.

Prior to moving to Minnesota, Gillaspy held the position of demographer at the Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Pennsylvania State University, specializing in economic demography. He also holds a Masters Degree in agricultural economics. Born and raised in Texas, he received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Speakers and Panelists

Jocelyn Ancheta, Program Officer, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation's initiative "Healthy Together: Creating Community with New Americans."

Mitchell Davis, Jr., Director, Office of Minority and Multicultural Health, Minnesota Department of Health.

Katherine Fennelly, Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.

John R. Finnegan, Jr., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

Sean Kershaw, Executive Director, Citizens League, and Governance Committee member, Twin Cities Compass.

Yusef Mgeni, Director, St. Paul Public Schools Office of Educational Equity.

Debra Olson, Associate Dean, Public Health Practice Education, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

Moderator

Edward P. Ehlinger, MD, MSPH, Director and Chief Health Officer of Boynton Health Service, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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