3455.0 Power, politics, and healthy communities in societal & ecologic context: from history and evidence to transformative knowledge for action

Monday, October 31, 2011: 4:30 PM
Oral
The presentations for this session will critically examine issues of social justice and public health as they pertain to the conditions – from global to local – that enable healthy communities to flourish versus block their development, and will do so in relation to the 3 foci of our Spirit of 1848 Caucus: the social history of public health, the politics of public health data, and progressive pedagogy for public health.
Session Objectives: Discuss issues of social justice and public health as they pertain to the conditions – from global to local – that enable healthy communities to flourish versus block their development.
Organizers:
Nancy Krieger, PhD , Anne-Emanuelle Birn, MA, ScD and Luis Alberto Aviles, PhD, MPH
Moderator:
Nancy Krieger, PhD

4:30 PM
Introduction to “Power, politics, and healthy communities in societal & ecologic context: From history and evidence to transformative knowledge for action.”
Nancy Krieger, PhD
     
  
4:35 PM
Impact of Corporations on Community Health: Disease Promotion and its Remedies
Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH
     
4:55 PM
Growing Smarter: Achieving Healthy and Sustainable Communities Through Environmental Justice
Robert Bullard, PhD
     
5:15 PM
Taking Action to Build Health Equity
Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MED
     

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