Online Program

Poster

For APHA 2014, The Spirit of 1848 Social Justice & Public Health Student Poster Session is having an *open call for abstracts* (due Wed, February 12, 2014) for posters that highlight the intersection between social justice and public health from a historical, theoretical, epidemiological, ethnographic, and/or methodological perspective (whether quantitative or qualitative). It was at APHA 2002 that the Spirit of 1848, eight years after its founding in 1994, first sponsored a student poster session, to formalize our recognition that engaging the next generation is critical for continuing and expanding the work linking social justice and public health. We welcome abstracts on topics ranging from public health research to public health practice to student-initiated courses on connections between social justice & public health. Given the theme of this year’s APHA meeting (“Where you live, work and play impacts your health and wellbeing”), we encourage abstracts that critically examine the importance of “place,” broadly defined, as it relates to the social determinants of health in research and practice. We accordingly are seeking abstracts from students of public health and health related programs, as well as enrolled in non-health-specific disciplines such as urban planning, demography, sociology, and geography. The work presented can be global, country-specific, or local.

Session Objectives: Describe links between social justice and public health, as presented in the posters that comprise this student poster session.