Health Disparities Calculator (HD*Calc) Webinar

The HD*Calc Webinar given by Sam Harper of McGill University and Steve Scoppa of IMS, Inc. in 2011 provides a review of health disparities measures and a demonstration of the HD*Calc software Version 1.0.  Two versions of the webinar are available, with and without open captions. This webinar was held by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) and presented by the National Cancer Institute on May 24, 2011.

• Part 1: Measuring Social Inequalities in Health: Measurement and Value Judgments presented by Sam Harper of McGill University
  • Recording (with captions) (27:20 minutes)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PPT, 3.4 MB) and Transcript (PDF, 132 KB)
• Part 2: HD*Calc Software Demonstration presented by Steve Scoppa of IMS, Inc.
  • Recording (no captions) (WMV, 26.2 MB) (22:24 minutes)
  • Recording (with captions) (WMV, 28.0 MB) (20:57 minutes)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF, 75 KB)

Download the media player required to view the videos (.wmv files): Windows Media Player.

Mandi Yu of NCI and Steve Scoppa of IMS, Inc. presented a webinar in 2019 to introduce new survey data features added to HD*Calc software in version 2.0.0. This webinar was held by the American Society of Preventive Oncology’s Cancer Health Disparities Special Interest Group and presented by the National Cancer Institute on February 27, 2019.

• Health Disparities Calculator: A Methodologically Rigorous Tool for Estimating Summary Measures of Health Disparities
  • Slides (PDF) from the webinar
  • Recording of the webinar on Dropbox