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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

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Health internationalism in the 1970s and 1980s


Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Department of Sociology and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, University of New Mexico, Loves Park, IL
Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Wendy Johnson, MD, MPH, Health Alliance International, Seattle, WA
Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH, Health Alliance International - Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Learning Areas:

Diversity and culture
Other professions or practice related to public health
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Explain historical development of international health efforts by US during 1970s and 1980s Describe their relation to earlier work and their outcomes

Keyword(s): International Health, Public Health Advocacy

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have extensive experience as a health internationalist.
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: 4331.0: P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session: Comrades in health: US health internationalists, abroad and at home (organized by Women's Caucus, Spirit of 1848, Socialist Caucus, and Medical Care)