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

Abstract #120380

Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD, MPH, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), 98 Seal Rock Drive, San Francisco, CA 94121-1437, 415-933-6204, ershaffer@cpath.org, Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, P. O. Box 1230, Sherborn, MA 01770, and Victor W. Sidel, MD, Albert Einstein Medical College and Montefiore Medical Center, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, New York, NY 10467.

The P. Ellen Parsons session honors research on health inequities and the use of population-based data to assess the health care needs of the nation. Patricia Ellen Parsons was a long-time APHA member, health services researcher, and social activist who combined scientific rigor with advocacy for fundamental social change. Her life as well as her untimely death in 1997 inspired her friends and colleagues to establish the P. Ellen Parsons sessions to honor her leadership. Contributors and editors of the new book Social Injustice and Public Health will reflect on aspects of social injustice, and interact with each other and with those attending. Short initial presentations will identify the topic, key events that occurred during 2005, and recommendations for action in 2006.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to discuss

• Pending developments in social injustice and public health.
• The views of noted public health analysts on prospects for change in the coming year.
• Opportunities for involvement in social change.

Keywords: Social Justice, Equal Access

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.