3232.0: Monday, October 22, 2001 - 5:30 PM

Abstract #26383

Building a global health activist network: Lessons learned and challenges from WTO/IMF organizing campaigns

Zoe Cardoza Clayson, ScD, Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, 440 27th Street, San Francisco, CA 94131, 415-338-2318, zoeclay@sfsu.edu

This panel discussion will focus on the role of the World Trade Association and the World Bank on global environmental and human health. The panel members, drawn from activist environmental, union, and international health organizations will consider various strategies to organize resistance to these policies.

Learning Objectives: to understand the opportunities provided by contemporary economic and political conditions to form global alliances; to gain knowledge of activist work internationally to reduce structural inequities and improve health; and to identify strategies and common ground to organize across national borders.

Keywords: Environmental Justice, Health Activism

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA