215385 Moderator

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 10:30 AM - 10:35 AM

Alexandra Stern, PhD , Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
I will moderate this panel, introducing speakers, and facilitating discussion about the history, present, and future of social justice and public health activism.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Public health or related public policy
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
1) to learn about the history of progressive public health movements and examples of their cooptation; 2) to inform social justice and public health today; 3) to bring together practitioners and historians in a productive dialogue

Keywords: History, Social Class Measurement

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a historian who works on the history of public health; I am also a member of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 3154.0: The Long Struggle: Building Social Justice and Public Health – and challenging co-optation – from 19th Century Social Medicine to 20th Century Progressivism and Civil Rights