PREVIEW: APHA 2010 PROGRAM:

The Spirit of 1848 is happy to share a preview of our final program for the

138th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association,

"Social Justice and Public Health"

November 6-10, 2010

Denver, CO

SESSIONS

Mon, Nov 8:

10:30 am to 12 noon:
The Long Struggle: Building Social Justice And Public Health – And Challenging Co-Optation – From 19th Century Social Medicine To 20th Century Progressivism And Civil Rights (Session 3154.0) <more info>

2:30 pm to 4:00 pm:
The Politics Of Public Health Data: The Mainstreaming Of Social Justice In Data Systems And Monitoring Health Inequities -- Possibilities And Problems (Session 3348.0) <more info>

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm:
Making Social Justice The Foundation Of Public Health: Gaining Ground And Confronting Co-Optation -- Critical Perspectives From Public Health History, Theory, Pedagogy, And Practice (Session 3421.0) <more info>

Tues, Nov 9:
8:30 am to 10:00 am:
Progressive Pedagogy For Public Health: Teaching And The Co-Optation Of Social Justice (Session 4066.0) <more info>

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm:
Social Justice & Public Health: Student Posters (Session 4153.0) <more info>

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm:
Spirit of 1848 Caucus Business Meeting (Session 445.0)

On Tues, NOV 9, we will co-sponsor one session and one event:

1). We will, as usual, co sponsor the P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session (Session 4297.0; 2:30 4:00 pm), organized by Ellen Shaffer, sponsored by the Medical Care Section and additionally co sponsored by the Socialist Caucus and the Women’s Caucus; see details in our upcoming final program!

2). In the evening will be the annual health activist dance party, organized by the Occupational Health & Safety section and which we will, as usual, cosponsor; the details will be available in our final program.

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Mon, NOV 8

Mon, NOV 8, 10:30 am to 12 noon:
The Long Struggle: Building Social Justice And Public Health – And Challenging Co-Optation – From 19th Century Social Medicine To 20th Century Progressivism And Civil Rights (Session 3154.0)

10:30 am
Moderator
Alexandra Stern, PhD

10:35 am
Illness-generating conditions of capitalism and empire: The contributions of Engels, Virchow, and Allende.
Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD

10:55 am
What does real power exchange look like in public health? – insights from the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Arthur McFarlane

11:15 am
Disrupting the narrative of race and malnutrition: Black women activists and medical researchers in 1960s' Memphis.
Laurie Green, PhD

11:35 am
Question & answer period

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Mon, NOV 8, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm:
The Politics Of Public Health Data: The Mainstreaming Of Social Justice In Data Systems And Monitoring Health Inequities -- Possibilities And Problems (Session 3348.0)

2:30 pm
Introduction to: The Politics of Public Health Data: The mainstreaming of social justice in data systems and monitoring health inequities -- possibilities and problems.
Catherine Cubbin, PhD

2:35 pm
Measuring social determinants of health within Statistics Canada.
Jillian Oderkirk

2:50 pm
Closing the measurement-action gap in health inequities.
Kumanan Rasanathan, MD

3:05 pm
Inside "Inside the neighborhood": Data, politics and participatory democracy in a Venezuelan intersectoral program.
Carles Muntaner, MD, PhD, Haejoo Chung, RPh, MSc, PhD, Qamar Mahmood

3:20 pm
Healthy People 2020 and social determinants of health: A national policy tool for health equity or continuing inequity?
Shawn D. Kimmel, PhD

3:35 pm
Question & answer period

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Mon, NOV 8, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm:
Making Social Justice The Foundation Of Public Health: Gaining Ground And Confronting Co-Optation -- Critical Perspectives From Public Health History, Theory, Pedagogy, And Practice (Session 3421.0)

4:30
Introduction to "Making social justice the foundation of public health: Gaining ground and confronting co-optation -- critical perspectives from public health history, theory, pedagogy, and practice."
Lisa Dorothy Moore, DrPH

4:35
WHOse international health? Cooptation and resistance in the context of health and development, 1970-present.
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, MA, ScD

4:55
Theories of disease distribution and the politics of public health data: An ecosocial perspective.
Nancy Krieger, PhD

5:15
Maintaining a commitment to social change in public health through Leadership Development.
Hahrie Han, PhD

5:35
From Harlem to Harare: Lessons in how social movements and social policy change health.
Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH

5:55
Question & answer period

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Tues, NOV 9:

Tues, NOV 9, 8:30 am to 10:00 am:
Progressive Pedagogy For Public Health: Teaching And The Co-Optation Of Social Justice (Session 4066.0)

8:30 am
Introduce session and speakers.
Lisa Dorothy Moore, DrPH

8:35 am
Making the invisible visible: Effective learning on equity and the social determinants of health.
Fran Baum, BA (hons) PhD, Angela Lawless, BSc MPHC, Gwyn Jolley, BSc, MSc, Michael Bentley, BSc, Toby Freeman, BSc Phd, Miranda Roe, BSW PhD, Frank Tesoriero, MSW PhD

8:55 am
Has social justice become the new diversity? A critical examination of public health pedagogy driving community engagement.
Makani Themba-Nixon

9:15 am
Resistance to Co-optation: Successes and failures from the field.
Bonnie Duran, DrPH and Nina Wallerstein, DrPH

9:35 am
Question & answer period

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Tues, NOV 9, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm:
Social Justice & Public Health: Student Posters (Session 4153.0)
This session highlights posters prepared by students of public health and health-related programs focused on intersections between social justice and public health from a historical, epidemiological, global, and/or methodological perspective.

Board #1
Medical research on ethnicity continues to neglect the social context.
Dane Bay, MPH Candidate and Daniel Cook, PhD

Board #2
Social justice symposium at Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Catherine Luik, MPH candidate

Board #3
Going upstream: Applying a public health perspective to interventions for incarcerated youth.
Amie Fishman, MPH

Board #4
Discrimination in healthcare reported by transgender persons in Virginia: Results from a statewide needs assessment survey.
Sari L. Reisner, MA and Judith B. Bradford, PhD

Board #5
Applying a "social determinants of health" framework to a community-based health equity project.
Lindsay Schubiner, BA

Board #6
TransClusive--Creating transgender friendly universities.
Shawn Demmons

Board #7
Examining health equity through a race theory lens.
Andrea Corage Baden, MPH, Ph(c)

Board #8
Cost of Co-optation: A case example in the movement to end gender-based violence.
Althea Swett, RN/WHNP candidate 2012 and Elizabeth Samuels, MD/MPH candidate 2012

Board #9
Marketmakeovers.org: A digital video-based guide to corner store conversion.
Arianna Taboada, BA

Board #10
Typhoid Mary: Has history provided justice?
Kristin Watkins, MBA

Tues, NOV 9, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm:
Spirit of 1848 Caucus Business Meeting (Session 445.0)
Come to a working meeting of THE SPIRIT OF 1848 CAUCUS. Our committees focus on the politics of public health data, progressive public health curricula, social history of public health, and networking. Join us in planning future sessions & projects!

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