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The Spirit of 1848 Caucus: A Network Linking Politics, Passion, and Public Health CALL FOR ABSTRACTS American Public Health Association: 135th Annual Meeting “Politics, Policy and Public Health” Washington, DC, November 3-7, 2007 The Spirit of 1848 Caucus is organizing 4 oral sessions and 1 poster session for the 135th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (Washington, DC, Nov 3-7, 2007). The sessions will be organized around the 3 themes of our caucus, as described in our mission statement below. These themes concern the inextricable links between social justice and public health, as manifested in: the politics of public health data, social history of public health, and progressive pedagogy. To learn more about the Spirit of 1848 Caucus and sessions we have organized at past APHA meetings, please visit our website at: http://www.spiritof1848.org 1) POLITICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH DATA SESSION For APHA 2007, the focus of our session will be: “Introducing the US RWJ Commission on Health Equity: Evidence, Politics, and Action” The 2007 Politics of Public Health Data session will focus on the newly-established Commission on Health Equity, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative. The session will feature three 15-minute presentations and two brief commentaries. Background: The Foundation is launching a national initiative to examine America’s health divide - whom it affects personally and how it impacts us all. At its core will be a Commission that will raise awareness of social determinants that affect health and have contributed to the growing disparities in health among Americans. Commissioners will include prominent leaders and rising thinkers from diverse disciplines supported by a team of scientific researchers and experts across the country. The Commission will go to communities to hear first hand about the barriers and challenges to health that people face on a daily basis. Informing the work of the Commission will be evidence-based research that identifies gaps in health status and links between health and broader socioeconomic factors. Presentations will cover scientific research, external communications and the Foundation's rationale for leading the initiative. The two commentaries will address international perspectives on health equity and issues of the politics of public health data and social justice. All presentations will be solicited. No unsolicited abstracts will be reviewed. This session will be held at the American Public Health Association 135th Annual Meeting in Washington DC on Monday, November 5, 2007 in the 2:30 to 4:00 pm APHA time slot. 2) SOCIAL HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH SESSION: For APHA 2007, our session will focus on: “Policing Reproduction: Lessons and Legacies of Eugenic Sterilization” The purpose is to provide historical analysis to remind of us past abuses and inform current work about reproductive rights. Organized by Alexandra M. Stern (who has previously presented on this topic in the Spirit of 1848 history session), the session will be introduced by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, from the Spirit of 1848 social history subcommittee, and will include presentations by: (1) Dr. Gregory Dorr, on “Poor Women, Poor Choices: The Dilemma of Civil Rights and Reproductive Health in the 1970s” (focusing on the 1973 Relf case, about the wrongful sterilization of two African American teenagers in Alabama), (2) Dr. Paul Lombardo, on “Looking Back at Buck v. Bell” (the 1927 Supreme Court decision that allowed states to perform mandatory sexual sterilization of persons who were mentally retarded, epileptic, or otherwise judged “socially inadequate”), and (3) Dr. Elena Gutierrez, who as discussant will reflect on both the presented papers and the more recent US histories of policing reproduction, especially among women of color. Two Spirit of 1848 members, Emily Galpern and Birgit Remier, will work together with Alexandra Stern and the panelists to create a resource guide (listing books, articles, and websites) for current organizing around reproductive rights. All presentations will be solicited. No unsolicited abstracts will be considered for this session. This session will be held at the American Public Health Association 135th Annual Meeting in Washington DC on Monday, November 5, 2007 in the 10:30 to 12 noon APHA time slot. 3) PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY SESSION: For APHA 2007, our session will focus on: “Broadening teaching about health inequities and social justice” In Fall 2007, a PBS broadcast series exploring the underlying causes of the nation’s socio-economic and racial disparities in health will be released to the public. The series is part of a campaign to stimulate a broad national debate over what we as a society can and should do to reduce health inequities. The 2007 Spirit of 1848 Progressive Pedagogy Session will build on the theme of expanding awareness of health inequities and debates over social determinants of health to a broader audience and through alternative methods. Abstracts linking issues of social justice, public health, and progressive pedagogy are invited covering the following range of topics: a) broadening the settings for teaching about health inequities and social determinants of health (e.g. worksites, primary and secondary schools, policymakers, communities, undergraduate education, professional schools other than public health/medicine, including law, social work, journalism, policy, etc.); b) broadening the methods for teaching about health inequities and social determinants of health (e.g. use of literature, active engagement versus lecture delivery, use of the PBS broadcast series); c) broadening who teaches about health inequities and social determinants of health; d) the politics of teaching about health inequities and social determinants of health in broader settings, using broader methods, and with a broader range of teachers; and e) measuring change in learners exposed to information about health inequities and social determinants of health using broader settings, methods, and teachers. Concrete examples of innovative strategies are encouraged. This session will be held at the American Public Health Association 135th Annual Meeting in Washington DC on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 in the 8:30 to 10:00 am APHA time slot. 4) INTEGRATIVE SESSION: Starting with the APHA 2002 Conference, the Spirit of 1848 has added a new oral session, in which we integrate the 3 themes of our Caucus. These pertain to the inextricable links between social justice & public health, as embodied in: the politics of public health data, the social history of public health, and progressive pedagogy. The integrative session complements our 3 other oral sessions, which provide opportunities for more in-depth discussion regarding each of our 3 themes. For the APHA 2007 meeting, our integrative session will be titled: “The Spirit of 1848 presents: “In Sickness and in Wealth: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” -- integrating politics, passion, and public health” The focus will be on ways to advance public discussion and action regarding the upcoming PBS broadcast (tentatively scheduled to be shown in Fall 2007) and DVD release of “In Sickness and in Wealth: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?,” a four-hour documentary series being produced by California Newsreel in association with the Minority Consortia of public television (formerly known by its working title, “Hidden Epidemic”). As stated by the producers, the series: “… explores the root causes of our huge and disturbing socio-economic and racial disparities in health. It suggests there is more to our health than our meds, our behaviors and our genes. Society matters. The conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our wellbeing and longevity. Note that the series does not simply illustrate differential health care access and treatment but why some populations get sicker more often in the first place, i.e., the role of economic inequality, racism, poverty, segregation and neglect in breeding disease and despair.” Participants in the session will include: (1) Larry Adelman, the series executive producer and co-director of California Newsreel, who will discuss the broadcast and screen selections for viewing; (2) Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, who will lead a discussion & dialogue with audience members, following the screening, on how the series can be used in the community, in the classroom, with activists, and with policy makers, to galvanize organizing around the social determinants of health and eliminating health inequities, and (3) Nancy Krieger, Chair of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus and an advisor to the series, who will introduce and moderate the session. All presentations will be solicited. No unsolicited abstracts will be considered for this session. This session will be held at the American Public Health Association 135th Annual Meeting in Washington DC on Monday, November 5, 2007 in the 4:30 to 6:00 pm APHA time slot. 5) STUDENT POSTER SESSION: Title: “Social Justice & Public Health: Student Posters” The Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association is soliciting abstracts from students -- in ANY type of educational program -- that highlight the intersection between social justice and public health from a historical, epidemiological, and/or methodological perspective. We welcome abstracts on topics ranging from public health research to public health practice to student-initiated courses that connect social justice and public health. The work presented can be global, country-specific, or local. We encourage students at ALL levels of training and in ANY study discipline to submit abstracts, whether undergraduates, master students, MPH students, or doctoral students. Submissions will be evaluated in accordance to training levels. Postdoctoral fellows are NOT eligible to submit posters. Abstracts should focus on furthering understanding and action to address the ways that social inequality harms, and social equity improves, the public’s health. Examples of social inequality include inequitable social divisions within societies based on social class, race, ethnicity, and gender; and also inequitable relations between nations and geographic regions. Given the theme of the conference, we especially welcome abstracts that include links between politics, policy and public health. All posters for this session will be selected from contributed abstracts. This session will be held at the American Public Health Association 135th Annual Meeting in Washington DC on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.
If you have any questions about the proposed Spirit of 1848 sessions, please contact the relevant subcommittee contacts for these sessions, listed below: 1) Public Health Data: Catherine Cubbin (cubbinc@fcm.ucsf.edu) 2) Curriculum: Suzanne Christopher (suzanne@montana.edu) 3) History: Anne-Emanuelle Birn (ae.birn@utoronto.ca) 4) Integrative session: Nancy Krieger (nkrieger@hsph.harvard.edu) 5) Student poster session: Vanessa Watts (vwatts@hsph.harvard.edu) For additional information about the Spirit of 1848, including our mission statement and why our name is “Spirit of 1848,”please see below--and also please visit our website, where you can learn more about our Caucus and see past sessions that we have organized at APHA: http://www.spiritof1848.org/ And, if you are interested in subscribing to our email bulletin board, which accepts postings explicitly linking social justice & public health in relation to information, resources, and queries, the relevant email addresses are: Community email addresses: Post message: spiritof1848@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: spiritof1848-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: spiritof1848-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com List owner: spiritof1848-owner@yahoogroups.com SPIRIT OF 1848 MISSION STATEMENT November 2002 The Spirit of 1848: A Network linking Politics, Passion, and Public Health Purpose and Structure The Spirit of 1848 is a network of people concerned about social inequalities in health. Our purpose is to spur new connections among the many of us involved in different areas of public health, who are working on diverse public health issues (whether as researchers, practitioners, teachers, activists, or all of the above), and live scattered across diverse regions of the United States and other countries. In doing so, we hope to help counter the fragmentation that many of us face: within and between disciplines, within and between work on particular diseases or health problems, and within and between different organizations geared to specific issues or social groups. By making connections, we can overcome some of the isolation that we feel and find others with whom we can develop our thoughts, strategize, and enhance efforts to eliminate social inequalities in health. Our common focus is that we are all working, in one way or another, to understand and change how social divisions based on social class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and age affect the public's health. As an activist and scholarly network, we have established four committees to conduct our work: 1) Public Health Data: this committee will focus on how and why we measure and study social inequalities in health, and develop projects to influence the collection of data in US vital statistics, health surveys, and disease registries. 2) Curriculum: this committee will focus on how public health and other health professionals and students are trained, and will gather and share information about (and possibly develop) courses and materials to spur critical thinking about social inequalities in health, in their present and historical context. 3) E-Networking: this committee will focus on networking and communication within the Spirit of 1848, using e-mail, web page, newsletters, and occasional mailings; it also coordinates the newly established student poster session. 4) History: this committee is in liaison with the Sigerist Circle, an already established organization of public health and medical historians who use critical theory (Marxian, feminist, post-colonial, and otherwise) to illuminate the history of public health and how we have arrived where we are today; its presence in the Spirit of 1848 will help to ensure that our network's projects are grounded in this sense of history, complexity, and context. Work among these committees will be coordinated by our Coordinating Committee, which consists of chair/co-chairs and the chairs/co-chairs of each of the four sub-committees. To ensure accountability, all public activities sponsored by the Spirit of 1848 (e.g., public statements, mailings, sessions at conferences, other public actions) will be organized by these committees and approved by the Coordinating Committee (which will communicate on at least a monthly basis). Annual meetings of the network (so that we can actually see each other and talk together) will take place at the yearly American Public Health Association meetings. Finally, please note that we are NOT a dues-paying membership organization. Instead, we are an activist, volunteer network: you become part of the Spirit of 1848 by working on one of our projects, through one of our committees--and we invite you to join in! NB: for additional information the Spirit of 1848 and our choice of name, see: --Coordinating Committee of Spirit of 1848 (Krieger N, Zapata C, Murrain M, Barnett E, Parsons PE, Birn AE). Spirit of 1848: a network linking politics, passion, and public health. Critical Public Health 1998; 8:97-103. --Krieger N, Birn AE. A vision of social justice as the foundation of public health: commemorating 150 years of the spirit of 1848. Am J Public Health 1998; 88:1603-6 . Community email addresses: Post message: spiritof1848@yahoogroups.com; Subscribe: spiritof1848-subscribe@yahoogroups.com; Unsubscribe: spiritof1848-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com; List owner: spiritof1848-owner@yahoogroups.com; Web page: www.spiritof1848.org First issued: Fall 1994; revised: November 2001; November 2001; November 2002 Selected notable events in and around 1848 1840- 1847: Louis Rene Villermé publishes the first major study of workers' health in France, A Description of the Physical and Moral State of Workers Employed in Cotton, Linen, and Silk Mills (1840); in England, Edwin Chadwick publishes General Report on Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population in Great Britain (1842); first child labor laws in the Britain and the United States (1842); end of the Second Seminole War (1842); prison reform movement in the United States initiated by Dorothea Dix (1843); Frederick Engels publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844); John Griscom publishes The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York with Suggestions for Its Improvement (1845); Irish famine (1845-1848) despite high agricultural output and protests against British agricultural and trade policies; start of US-Mexican war (1846); Frederick Douglass founds The North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper (1847); Southwood Smith publishes An Address to the Working Classes of the United Kingdom on their Duty in the Present State of the Sanitary Question (1847) 1848: World-wide cholera epidemic Uprisings in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Palermo, Milan, Naples, Parma, Rome, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, and Dakar; start of Second Sikh war against British in India In the midst of the 1848 revolution in Germany, Rudolf Virchow founds the medical journal Medical Reform (Medicinische Reform), and writes his classic “Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia,” in which he concludes that preserving health and preventing disease requires “full and unlimited democracy” and radical measures rather than “mere palliatives” Revolution in France, abdication of Louis Philippe, worker uprising in Paris, and founding of The Second Republic, which creates a public health advisory committee attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and establishes network of local public health councils First Public Health Act in Britain, which creates a General Board of Health, empowered to establish local boards of health to deal with the water supply, sewerage, and control of “offensive trades,” and also to conduct surveys of sanitary conditions The newly formed American Medical Association sets up a Public Hygiene Committee to address public health issues First Women's Rights Convention in the United States, at Seneca Falls Henry Thoreau publishes Civil Disobedience, to protest paying taxes to support the United States's war against Mexico Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto 1849- 1854: Elizabeth Blackwell sets up the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children (1849); Lemuel Shattuck publishes Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts (1850); founding of the London Epidemiological Society (1850); Indian Wars in the southwest and far west (1849-1892); Compromise of 1850 retains slavery in the United States and Fugitive Slave Act passed; Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); Sojourner Truth delivers her “Ain't I a Woman” speech at the Fourth Seneca Fall convention (1853); John Snow removes the handle of the Broad Street Pump to stop the cholera epidemic in London (1854) |
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