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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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Baseball in the Time of Cholera


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Bryn Mooser, RYOT, Los Angeles, CA
The message is simple: Over 500,000 Haitians have been infected with cholera and over 7,000 have died from the disease since October 2010. Yet, Haiti is still left without sufficient sanitation and water infrastructure or reparations for the more than half a million victims of the cholera outbreak. This film is a powerful insight into the tragedy and scandal of Haiti's cholera epidemic through the eyes of a young baseball player. Please share this story.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Communication and informatics
Diversity and culture
Epidemiology
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Explain how this film mobilized individuals to get involved in the effort to end Cholera in Haiti.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the co-founder of RYOT. I was the Country Director for Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) in Haiti, where I helped build APJ's secondary school in Port-au-Prince, which now educates 2,500 Haitian youth per year. I served in the Peace Corps in West Africa and hitchhiked from Bangkok to Berlin. I am an award-winning filmmaker and premiered my latest documentary, Body Team 12, at TriBeCa Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary Short.
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.

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