Oral

This session will critically examine teaching and capacity building, both inside and outside of traditional academic settings, that promotes the health of communities. Potential topics include critical approaches to pedagogy about: who has the privilege to speak for communities; promoting links between community development and health; the role of community health centers as institutions for community capacity-building; dealing with changing boundaries of communities, for example related to immigration and migration; dealing with divisions within communities; who defines community and different definitions of what is community; capacity building to deal with environmental change and community, for example environmental justice, global warming; communities in context, for example, geopolitical or economic; and educating students and communities for community capacity development.

Session Objectives: Participants who attend this session will be able to discuss critically different approaches to teaching and capacity building, both inside and outside of traditional academic settings, that promotes the health of communities.

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)