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NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by Ethics SPIG.


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Sunday, October 26, 2008

2:30 PM-3:30 PM Sun
   2033.0Health Disparities Poster Session (Poster)
4:30 PM-5:30 PM Sun
   2051.0Reducing Health Disparities (Poster)

Monday, October 27, 2008

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
   3034.0Education, Environment, and Genes: Genomics in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (Oral)
   3037.0The Impact of Public Health Funding on Health Disparities (Oral)
   3056.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Health and Safety for Latino/Hispanic Workers (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
   3105.0Dignity and Justice For Us All: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60 (Oral)
   3119.0Maternal, Infant, Child and Family Health (Oral)
   3120.1Pandemics, Epidemics, and Public Health Ethics (Oral)
   3123.0Genomics Relevance on Addressing Health Disparities (Oral)
   3144.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Addressing Issues of Minority and Immigrant Workers (Oral)
   3155.1Contemporary Nursing Research (Oral)
   3158.0Health Scare vs. Health Care: Can Public Health Recover from the Bioterrorism Blunders? (Oral)
12:30 PM-1:30 PM Mon
   3164.0International Human Rights Committee Poster Session (Poster)
   3182.0Abortion Related Topics (Poster)
   3185.0Expanding the Borders of Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control (Poster)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
   3205.0Reducing Health Disparities for Rural Populations (Oral)
   3209.0Epidemiological Criminology: A 21st Century Interdisciplinary Paradigm at the Crossroad (Panel Discussion)
   3215.0Ethics, Accreditation and Quality Improvement (Panel Discussion)
   3235.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Dying to Work - The Migrant's Journey to Work in the US (Oral)
2:30 PM-3:30 PM Mon
   3263.0Public Health Without Borders (Poster Session) (Poster)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
   3299.0Beyond Borders: Human Rights Violations Among Non-Citizen Populations (Oral)
   3321.0Issues in Access to Care (Oral)
   3327.0Innovative Responses to HIV in Africa (Roundtable)
   3347.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Safety, Health and Social Justice for Immigrant Workers - Lessons from the NIOSH EJ projects (Oral)
   3364.0HPV: Not Just a Women's Health Issue (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
   3396.0International Health Film Festival 03: Health and Human Rights Issues in India, Pakistan, and East Africa (Oral)
   3397.0Social Inequalities in Healthcare (Oral)
   3404.0Beyond Food Miles: Reducing Our Carbon Foodprint (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
   4001.0Moving Targets: How Tobacco Industry Marketing Strategies are Evolving (Oral)
   4008.0Ending the Nightmare: A Different Vision of Human Rights (Oral)
   4014.0Service Needs and Experiences after Hurricane Katrina (Oral)
   4018.0Environmental Justice Science: Approaches to Study and Address Environmental Health Disparities (Oral)
   4026.0Student Papers in Public Health Ethics (Oral)
   4029.0Genomics for Everyday People: Engaging Communities (Oral)
   4034.2Collaboration Among Sections, SPIGs, Forums, Caucuses and HIIT to Achieve Equity (Town Hall Meeting) Part I (Oral)
   4058.0Social Justice and Health Access (Oral)
   4062.0Environmental Justice: Class, Racism and Human Rights (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Tue
   4088.0International Research Ethics (Oral)
   4095.1Collaboration Among Sections, SPIGs, Forums, Caucuses and HIIT to Achieve Equity (Town Hall Meeting) Part II (Oral)
   4107.1Women's reproductive and perinatal health: interventions and evidence for reducing racial and ethnic disparities (Oral)
   4111.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Work, Health Disparities and Social Factors (Oral)
   4115.0Reproductive Tourism: Ethical and Health Concerns (Oral)
   4122.0Beyond Single-Payer: What Kind of Health Care are we Talking About Anyway? (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
   4164.0Faith communities exploring answers to critical health topics (Roundtable)
   4166.0Success Stories: Community-Based Public Health Efforts to Inform Politics, Policy, and Public Health (e.g., Social and Environmental Justice) (Oral)
   4182.0Case Studies in Public Health Ethics (Roundtable)
   4194.0HIV Prevention in Africa (Oral)
   4195.0HIV and Asia: Emerging Issues (Oral)
   4210.0Advancing Reproductive Rights (Oral)
   4217.0Raising Women's Voices: Health Care for Women, Health Care for All (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
   4248.0Border Crossings: Health and Human Rights Violations on the US-Mexico Border (Panel Discussion)
   4253.0Priorities and challenges in conducting research with homeless populations, including consumer involvement (Oral)
   4258.0Research, Policy and Politics, Important to Community Health Workers (Oral)
   4264.0Health Disparities (Oral)
   4297.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Farmworkers: Rights, Justice and Health (Oral)
   4310.0Framing and Fighting: Theory and Practice in the Struggle for Public Health (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
   4352.0Global Bioethics, Health, and Justice (Oral)
   4366.0Roundtable on Topics in Mental Health (Roundtable)
   4374.0Securing Access to Second-Trimester Abortion (Oral)

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
   5039.0Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (Oral)
   5042.0Environmental Justice and Health Disparities in Brownfields Communities (Oral)
   5048.0Uses of Genomic and Genetics in Public Health Settings (Oral)
   5071.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Farmworkers Feed Us All - Farmworker Health in Story and Video (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Wed
   5089.0Living Smoke Free: Clean Air in Homes and Cars (Oral)
   5117.0Public Interests & the Pharmaceutical Industry (Panel Discussion)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
   5146.0Community Planning for Positive Outcomes in Maternal and Infant Health (Oral)
   5147.0Health Care as a Civil Right (Oral)
   5157.0Social Epidemiology: Effects of Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Disparities on Health (Oral)
   5159.0Contemporary Ethical Aspects in Genomics (Oral)
   5160.0End of Life Issues (Oral)
   5195.0Trade Policy, Health, Economics and Justice (Oral)

The 136th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (October 25-29, 2008) of APHA