Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #120321

Alan F. Meyers, MD, MPH, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, 91 East Concord Street, Mat.Bldg., Rm 4205, Boston, MA 02118, (617)414-4719, afmeyers@bu.edu, Ellen Isaacs, MD, private practice, 207 W. 106th Street, 14E, New York, NY 10025, Seema Jilani, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, Alice Rothchild, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, 165 Dartmouth St, Boston, MA 02116, and Andrew Schamess, MD, Dalton Medical Associates, 33 North St., Suite 1, Dalton, MA 01226.

The Jewish American Medical Project (JAMP) represents an effort to advance the movement toward peace and justice in the Middle East through medical, public health, labor, and human rights assistance, educational exchange, and outreach to the U.S. public. JAMP is sponsored by several organizations within the U.S. Jewish peace movement, and partners primarily with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel). JAMP sponsors delegations whose members work with their counterparts in the Occupied Territories and within Israel, including providing patient care at fixed and mobile clinics in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem; teaching at hospitals affiliated with the medical school at Al Quds University; working with labor unions and human rights organizations; and joining in efforts seeking environmental justice. On their return, delegation members share their experiences in a broad range of settings, including medical centers, universities, religious congregations, congressional offices, the medical press, and media outlets. JAMP also brings representatives from its partner organizations to the U.S. to offer their insight to the widest possible audience. JAMP has helped to promote an exchange of medical students between Al Quds University and U.S. medical schools. Participation of those who work or study in the fields of health, human rights, labor, or environment and who support the principles of the sponsoring organizations, is welcomed. JAMP's activities may be reviewed at www.vopj.org/jamp.htm

Learning Objectives:

• recognize the potential for collaboration in health as a bridge to peace in areas of conflict
• describe efforts under way to support the right to health in the occupied Palestinian territories
• identify opportunities for interested health and public health workers to participate in these efforts

Keywords: War, International Health

Related Web page: www.vopj.org/jamp.htm

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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