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Local/Global Solidarity through Liberation Medicine: Doctors for Global Health

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
This APHA session will explore diverse facets of Doctors for Global Health's health and social justice work, with the purpose of teaching and inspiring toward similar work with sister organizations "able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world."
Session Objectives: Describe the diversity of the health and social justice work of Doctors for Global Health. Demonstrate how sister organizations can cooperate to undertake health and social justice work around the world.
Moderator:
Linnea Capps, MD,MPH

4:30pm
Building Health Where the Peace is New: The struggle against mining-interest violence in El Salvador
Clyde L. Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
4:50pm
Health as Autonomy: With the community in Chiapas and in Oaxaca
Linnea Capps, MD,MPH
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
5:10pm
Health Promotion and Medical Care in Rural Uganda
Linnea Capps, MD,MPH and Gerald Paccione, MD
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
5:30pm
Doctors for Global Health General Assembly in Chiapas, Mexico. Liberation Medicine: Rise Up in Solidarity
Linnea Capps, MD,MPH and Clyde L. Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Socialist Caucus
Endorsed by: Peace Caucus, Community-Based Public Health Caucus, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Socialist Caucus
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