IJERPH Webinar | Mobile Health Clinics as an Access Strategy
IJERPH Webinar | Mobile Health Clinics as an Access Strategy
Part of the MDPI IJERPH Webinars series
12 November 2025
Mobile health clinics, access to care, health equity, underserved populations, rural health, public health, primary care, cost effectiveness, community engagement
Welcome from the Chair
13th IJERPH Webinar
Mobile Health Clinics as an Access Strategy
We are pleased to present a webinar examining the potential of mobile health clinics as a transformative strategy for improving access to care. Mobile health clinics offer a pragmatic solution to overcoming geographic and systemic barriers, yet the act of bringing care directly to communities does more than address access – it shifts the very paradigm of the patient-provider relationship, reframing how and where health and healing begin. Our speakers bring distinct but complementary perspectives: one is a research professor on health insurance and access to care, who has just completed a comprehensive review of the current mobile clinic research, while the other draws upon four decades of field experience, encompassing both the rich history of early mobile health initiatives and the rise of innovative, technology-enabled models. In addition, as co-founder of the Return-on-Investment Calculator and MobileHealthMap she has helped mobile clinics measure their impact. Together, they will define what “Mobile Health” means, explore its community-driven origins, and discuss both the evidence for its impact and the advances shaping its future. With this webinar and associated Special Issue of the IJERPH journal, we invite you to join the conversation, with the aim of rethinking traditional models of care, deepening our understanding of community-based solutions, and identifying the resources and new perspectives required to optimize the potential of mobile health clinics within the broader continuum of healthcare and public health.
Date: 12 November 2025
Time: 12:00 PM EDT | 06:00 PM CEST
Webinar ID: 821 2110 7559
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Event Chair
Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH is a community health implementer-educator at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Partners in Health (PIH). He started his career in global health equity living and working with community health workers in Chiapas, Mexico. He has launched several initiatives including: Compañeros En Salud, PIH’s program in Mexico; Financing Alliance for Health, which helps governments design and fund community health programs; and The Community Health Impact Coalition, an advocacy, research and organizing initiative. He is currently clinician education in the Hospital Medicine Unit at BWH, The Director of Community Health Systems at PIH, Faculty Advisor to the Family Van and MobileHealthMap and Director of the Office of Community Centered Medical Education at HMS.
Keynote Speakers
Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington DC, USA
Maanasa Kona, JD, LLM, is an Associate Research Professor and faculty member at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on improving the affordability of and access to health care, with particular emphasis on reducing the burden of medical debt, expanding access to primary and behavioral health care, and addressing the drivers of rising health care costs, including harmful provider consolidation. She received her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, and her LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from The George Washington University.
Nancy E. Oriol, M.D.is Faculty Associate Dean for Community Engagement in Medical Education, Associate Professor of Anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesia at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Lecturer in Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr Oriol Graduate from HMS in 1979, completed anesthesia residency at the Beth Israel Hospital and was Director of the Division of Obstetric Anesthesia until 1997. From 1997-2016 she was Dean For Students at HMS. Dr. Oriol is the co-founder of several long-standing social innovations including: the Family Van a mobile clinic, MobileHealthMap a data sharing network of mobile clinics and HMS MEDscience a unique simulation-based science curriculum for high school and college.
Registration
This is a FREE webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Certificates of attendance will be delivered to those who attend the live webinar.
Can’t attend? Register anyway and we’ll let you know when the recording is available to watch.
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in EDT |
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Dr. Daniel Palazuelos Chair Introduction |
12:00 - 12:10 pm |
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Dr. Maanasa Kona Beyond the Clinic Walls, What We Know About Mobile Health |
12:10 - 12:40 pm |
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Dr. Nancy E Oriol Mobile Health Clinics, Learning from the Past and Exploring the Future |
12:40 - 1:10 pm |
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Q&A |
1:10 - 1:25 pm |
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Dr. Daniel Palazuelos Closing of Webinar |
1:25 - 1:30 pm |
Relevant Special Issue
Advances and Trends in Mobile Healthcare
Guest Editors: Dr. Nancy Oriol and Dr. Mollie Williams
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025
Sponsors and Partners
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