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Abstract #158050

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Mary Beth Love, PhD¹, Vicki Legion, MPH¹, Amanda R. Goldberg, MPH¹, Ingrid Ochoa, MPH², Savi Malik, BA³, Rachel Poulain, MPH⁴, Cathy Rath, MA⁵, and Sarah Rodriguez'G¹. (1) Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, HSS 326, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132, 415-338-2708, love@sfsu.edu, (2) Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, (3) Community Heatlh Works, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway, HSS 301, San Francisco, CA 94132, (4) California Newsreel, 500 Third Street, #505, San Francisco, CA 94107, (5) Solano County Public Health Department, A.T.O.D. Reducing Rates Coalition, C/O CG Rath Consulting, 1 Weatherly Drive Suite 206, Mill Valley, CA 94941

After an intensive process of dialog, the faculty of San Francisco State University identified social justice as the University's number one strategic goal. Following this decision, the campus has generated many innovative approaches for teaching social justice. Four of these will be discussed in this session. The first is the development of the Metropolitan Health Academies, with City College of San Francisco, funded by Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education. The goal of this project is to use health and social justice as an organizing theme for an integrated general education curriculum for urban undergraduates who are interested in health professions. Public health content will be infused with the “golden four” skills of writing, public speaking, and both critical and quantitative thinking, along with advocacy skills. The second innovation is a three unit course entitled “Health and Social Justice: Burning Issues, Taking Action.” This is a documentary film and lecture course exposing students to cutting edge films (including the forthcoming Unnatural Causes mini-series); to public health experts; and to community activist campaigns. The third innovation is a course co-offered with the Cinema Department, in which public health students collaborate with cinema graduate students to produce documentary films. The final innovation is a teach-in model which exposes people from the larger campus community to important issues (Katrina; the Unnatural Causes mini-series). Organized around such an issue theme, teach-ins are designed to expose attendees to powerful films, faculty and community speakers, group discussion, and to food, music and visual arts.

Learning Objectives: By the end of the session participants will

• be familiar with four experiencial learning activities through detailed lesson plans to help students gain insight into social determinants of health;
• understand the role of documentary films as a catalyst for developing critical consciousness about structural violence and health.

Keywords: Public Health Curriculum, College Students

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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