HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2024

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HOMELESSNESS

Rep. Della Au Belatti, Chair

Rep. Jenna Takenouchi, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Terez Amato

Rep. Lisa Marten

Rep. Greggor Ilagan

Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto

Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi

Rep. Diamond Garcia

 

NOTICE OF INFORMATIONAL BRIEFING

 

DATE:

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

TIME:

9:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 329

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

Via Videoconference

 

 

A live stream link of all House Standing Committee meetings will be available online

shortly before the scheduled start time.

 

Click here for the live stream of this meeting via YouTube.

 

 

A G E N D A

 

 

 

 

The purpose of this briefing is to educate the Committee and the public about the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study. A collaboration between the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO), the College of Social Sciences, the John A. Burns School of Medicine, UH Cancer Center, and numerous community-based organizations such as Roots Reborn, Maui Medic Healers Hui, and Malama Kula, the three aims of this study are to:

1.       Recruit and evaluate the socioeconomic and health conditions of those exposed to the Maui wildfires for a cohort study on community and health resilience;

2.       Monitor the health and well-being of the wildfire-exposed cohort participants over the course of recovery; and

3.       Develop and execute a data-informed dissemination strategy and toolkit to support current recovery efforts and build resilience against adverse impacts of future disasters.

 

More information about the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study can be found at www.MAUIWES.info.

 

The following persons and/or organizations have been invited to participate in this briefing:

1.       Dr. Ruben Juarez, HMSA Endowed Professor, UHERO and Economics Department, UH-Manoa;

2.       Dr. Alika Maunakea, Professor, John A. Burns School of Medicine, UH-Manoa;

3.       Dr. Carl S. Bonham, Executive Director, UHERO

4.       Veronica Mendoza Jachowski, Executive Director and/or Genesis Gil, Director of Latino Community Organizing, Roots Reborn;

5.       Nikima Glatt, Medical Directro and Noelani Ahia, Maui Medic Healers Hui;

6.       Kyle Ellison, Executive Director, Malama Kula; and

7.       Dayna Moore, Hawaii Health C.A.R.E.S. Hui & Alliance.

 

No public testimony will be accepted.

 

 

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids and/or services to participate in the House public hearing process (i.e.,  interpretive services (oral or written) or ASL interpreter), please contact the Committee Clerk at least 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made. 

 

For further information, please call the Committee Clerk at (808) 586-9425.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rep. Della Au Belatti

Chair