3177.0 Critical Histories of Community Health Centers

Monday, October 31, 2011: 10:30 AM
Oral
The presentations for this session will critically examine the history of community health centers and their involvement in health and social justice movements and efforts across the United States.
Session Objectives: 1) Discuss the history of community health centers and their involvement in health and social justice movements and efforts across the United States.
Organizers:
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, MA, ScD , Luis Alberto Aviles, PhD, MPH , Sarah Ramirez, MPH, PHD and Alexandra Stern, PhD
Moderator:
Sarah Ramirez, MPH, PHD

10:30 AM
Introduction “Critical Histories of Community Health Centers”
Sarah Ramirez, MPH, PHD
     
  
10:35 AM
Serving an Expanding Community: How a free HIV Clinic Transformed into a full Community Health Center
P. Justin Goforth
     
10:55 AM
A Matter of Principle: Community Health Centers and Health Care as a Right
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
11:15 AM
Young Lords and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Public Health in New York
Johanna Fernandez, PhD
     

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Organized by: Spirit of 1848 Caucus

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