Marco Meneses

1. Cultural Competence, Health Literacy and Advancing Health Equity at every point of
contact
My name is Marco Meneses, completed a BSc in Nutrition and MS in Public Health at
Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.
Completed a MS in Training and Development (adult education and business) at St Francis
University in Joliet, Illinois.
I has been working and training community health workers in Colombia and Honduras and
volunteer with different churches and non-profit agencies.
With Kane County and Cook County (Illinois) I worked for several years with projects that
addressed determinants of health. Worked at grassroots level and later in programmatic
activities to increase availability of and access to culturally sensitive health care providers for
families from Mexico and other Central American countries, Honduras and El Salvador,
including Mayan – native- populations from El Petén (Guatemala).
The last 10 years I worked in Florida with Broward County Health Department in chronic
disease prevention, with Minority Development and Empowerment, as Program Manager for the
“Healthy Choices, Healthy Living”.
Currently as Patient Navigator with the Health Care District of Palm Beach County at
Lantana –Clinic in health education and promotion for diabetes and hypertension and Care
Coordinator for the Florida Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program
Selected for the Community-Based Participatory Research Fellows Mentoring Program to Promote
Minority Health,which is sponsored by and occurred at the People’s Scientific Conference and 7th
Annual Florida CHW Coalition Summit on September 22 and 23, 2017. University of Florida Health
Disparities Research and Intervention Program - Gainesville, Florida.
MY PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY:
 I like to participate /serve on community boards and to promote public health initiatives in the
community.
 I am an AMBASSADOR that foster good patient and public relations.
 I am interested in Cultural Competence, Health Literacy and Advancing Health Equity at
every point of contact.
The ability to understand health information is the number one indicator of positive health
outcomes because so much of health care is about what we read and understand.
If patients understand what their health issues are, what their medications are and how to take
them, there are better outcomes and fewer unscheduled visits to the physician’s office, fewer
hospitalizations and emergency rooms visits. Teaching healthy living, healthy eating and healthy
lifestyles has a huge impact on quality of care, patient satisfaction and reducing health care costs.
Selected by the American Public Health Association, CHW Section, as the 2017
Outstanding Community Health Worker of the Year Award.
Certified Community Health Worker by the State of Florida
http://marcomeneses.com/