The Health and Disability Working Group (HDWG)

The Health and Disability Working Group (HDWG) promotes strategies that improve the delivery of medical, behavioral, and support services to adults with disabilities and chronic illnesses, children with special health needs and people living with HIV/AIDS. Our primary focus is on low income, minority and disenfranchised populations. HDWG is a research, technical assistance and training program at the Boston University School of Public Health.

What's New at HDWG

Upcoming webinar: Understanding the Basics--Medicaid & CHIP
The Catalyst Center is hosting a 5-part webinar series to provide an overview of its newly released Medicaid/ CHIP Tutorial, Public Insurance Programs and Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Tutorial on the Basics of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The second webinar in the series will be:
Understanding the Basics--Medicaid & CHIP and Building Partnerships Among Stakeholders
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register

Public Health Reports Oral Health Supplement
"The most comprehensive additions to the body of knowledge about oral health care for people living with HIV/AIDS since the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study conducted nearly a decade ago." That’s how Public Health Reports introduces its new Oral Health Supplement Innovations in Oral Health Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS. The supplement presents findings from the ECHO (Evaluation Center for HIV and Oral Health) multi-site evaluation of the HRSA Special Project of National Significance (SPNS) oral health initiative.
Public Health Reports supplement

PEER Center resources available
Although the PEER Center project ended almost a year ago, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program grantees, clinics, and  organizations serving HIV-positive clients continue to request toolkits to train HIV-positive peers and implement peer programs to support their clients living with HIV.
PEER Center