The Socialist Caucus of the American Public Health Association (SCAPHA) has been actively engaged in the fight for social justice and public health since 1975. We invite submissions with a critical political perspective on the impact of global capitalism on health, health care, wellness, prevention, the food system, community organization and the environment. Topics may include social class, race and racism in health and health care, the role of corporations in health, health care, the food system and the environment, progressive perspectives on women's health issues, and on the health of marginalized populations, the movement for national health care and, in general, the struggle for health and justice in the United States and around the world. We would like to invite abstracts to be presented during the proposed following sessions. Proposals for complete sessions are also entertained.

• A Rights-Based Approach to Global Health Governance
  
• Abortion Perspectives
  
• Access to health care: the role of health insurance
  
• Advancing Equity through Education in Public Health
  
• African American Women: Maternal Child Health- Reproduction, Prenatal and Motherhood
  
• Ain’t I a woman: HIV risk factors among women in the US
  
• Breastfeeding Oral Session: Breastfeeding Support and Outcomes Across Social Contexts
  
• Breastfeeding Oral Session: Law and Policy as Critical Tools to Increase Breastfeeding and Reduce Disparities
  
• Breastfeeding Oral Session: Returning to Work or School While Breastfeeding
  
• Breastfeeding Oral Session: Supporting Breastfeeding in the Community and Associated Outcomes
  
• Breastfeeding Rapid Fire Oral Session: Latest Topics in Breastfeeding Research
  
• Building Healthy Communities & Places (Built Environment)
  
• Cafeterias to Classrooms: Improving Nutrition in U.S. Schools
  Including, but not limited to: Policy, systems, and environmental changes to prevent obesity or impact other public health concerns; Obesity as an environmental health issue; Built environment influencing healthy food and physical activity opportunities; Innovations in healthy food retail; Evaluation/measurement of the food environment (e.g. environmental audits, GIS, etc.); Disparities in local food environment and strategies to increasing access to healthy, affordable foods; Influence of the food environment on diet; Transportation policy as it relates to food accessibility.
• Cancer and Chronic Disease Management using ICTHP
  
• Capacity building to foster the develpoment of community-university partnerships: lessons learned from the CBPR Partnership Academy
  
• Challenges and opportunities to working across health and other economic sectors to improve community health and health outcomes
  
• Child Welfare Systems and Mental Health: Impact of Policies on Mothers and Children
  including jail diversion, crisis intervention and re-entry approaches; behavioral health issues in jails and prisons; localities’ policy and financing challenges; advocacy efforts.
• Class, Racism and Public Health
  
• Climate Change, Reproductive Health & Reproductive Justice
  
• Climate change and the effect on war and peace
  
• Climate change, infectious diseases and the health of refugee and immigrant populations
  
• Climate change: Global health action toward improving women and girls reproductive life
  
• Climate changes health: Addressing climate change through programs, initiatives and policies that create healthier communities
  
• Community Health and Health Reform
  
• Community voices: Community member perspectives on community-academic partnerships and CBPR (presenting author must be a community member)
  
• Community-Based Strategies, Stories, and Transformation in Violence and Justice
  
• Community-Driven Climate Change for Social, Environmental, and Economic Justice
  
• Conflicts, Violence and the health of refugee and immigrant populations
  
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: African American Women's Health Across the Life Span (Collaboration with the APHA Women’s Health Section)
  
• Cross Cultural Care- Doctors, Dreamers, Muslims
  
• Current Issues in Latinx Health
  
• Design and evaluation of health and social service interventions for veteran homeless populations
  
• Disasters and the health of refugee and immigrant populations
  
• End of Life and Public Health Ethics
  
• Engage for Equity: Using Research and Promising Practices for Enhancing Community-Based Participatory Research Practice
  
• Engaging Communities in Benchmarking, Mapping, and Community Assessments to Support Food Advocacy
  Intersection of climate change with food systems, agriculture, food production, food security, water availability, food safety, or food consumption patterns.
• Ensuring the Health of AI/AN/NH Peoples: Application of culture-based and data-driven strategies, methods, and tools roundtable
  
• Ensuring the Health of Women Pre-Conception through Postnatal Care
  
• Ensuring the Right to Health among APIs
  
  • AAPI Immigrant Health: health trends among AAPI immigrants, refugees and undocumented persons
  • Determinants of AAPI health and AAPI mental health equity
  • Health disparities and inequalities related to gender/sexual orientation, spoken word, poverty, health literacy among AAPIs
  • Barriers and facilities promoting or impeding health in AAPI immigrant and refugee communities
  • Innovative strategies and policies to promote health in refugee and immigrant communities
  • The future of the Affordable Care Act and the implications for AAPIs
• Environmental Justice Policies & Public Health
  
• Environmental and Occupational Exposures and their associations with Health and Disease - Poster Session
  
• Ethical conduct of research in challenging situations
  
• Ethics, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change
  
• Extras
  
• Faith-based Approaches to Creating a Healthier Nation
  
• Family violence prevention and intervention strategies
  
• Farm to Table is not Just for the Wealthy: Connecting Farm Fresh Foods with Underserved Communities
  Including, but not limited to: Global and domestic issues around food access, sovereignty and the right to safe and healthy foods; Access to cultural foods; Preserving culinary/dietary traditions; Impact of immigration patterns on diet; Interventions.
• Food Justice: Thinking outside the Box to Address Nutrition Disparities
  Including, but not limited to: Best practices in dietary assessment and surveillance; Population health and nutrient intake; Links between dietary behaviors and health outcomes.
• Food Literacy: Empowering Communities to Understand their Food
  Including, but not limited to: Education and policies addressing nutrition and physical activity in a variety of settings including homes, school and after school, child care, worksites, faith based communities, etc.; Farm to Institution; Community Partnerships; Evaluation/Measurement strategies;  Implementation of nutrition guidelines; innovations that promote health and prevent disease.
• Food and the Environment 
  
• Global Health
  
• Global Issues in HIV/AIDS
  
• Global Women's Health Issues
  
• Grassroots (Local) Policy Efforts Addressing Climate Change
  
• Grassroots Movements in the Fightback for Public Health
  
• HIV Stigma and Discrimination
  
• Health Care Access for People with Disabilities
  
• Health Disparities - The role of Race and Ethnicity
  
• Health Education, Health Communications and Community-Based Interventions among AAPIs
  
  • Health Communication among AAPIs and recent AAPI immigrants and refugees
  • Public health education and interventions
  • Social marketing and health communications
  • Innovative community-based programs, and the research, and evaluation of those programs in addressing health issues in AAPI communities
  • Supporting and sustaining the community health worker (CHW) workforce and CHW programs through policies and systems changes in AAPI populations
  • Ensuring cultural and linguistic access to care
• Health System Participation in Social Justice Policies
  
• Health, Economic and Social Disparities among People with Disabilities
  
• Healthier Stores for Healthier Communities: Role of Retail Stores in Improving Nutrition
  Including, but not limited to: Collaborative models demonstrating collective impact in the area of food and nutrition (common agenda, shared measurement system, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication and backbone organization); Community coalitions addressing obesity, hunger, health equity; food policy councils.
• Home is Where Health Starts: Using Law to Addressing Housing Concerns
  The use of laws to promote access to and quality of care is critical to ensuring the public’s health. Ranging from licensure, scope of practice, accreditation, insurance coverage and much more, the Health Law section seeks abstracts that advance our understanding of how health services can promote and maintain health.
• Housing as a human right: design and evaluation of effective housing-related services
  
• How is health inequity impacting the health of boys & men of color
  
• I will survive: The impact of intimate partner violence and sexual assault on the health of women and girls
  
• Impacts of Racism and Discrimination on the Mental Health of Emerging Adults of Color
  
• Improving Community Health in a Changing Political Climate
  
• Improving Nutrition in Rural Communities
  Including, but not limited to: Use and impact of innovative technology on nutrition programming, measurement, and behaviors/outcomes; Use of innovative technology in tracking and self-management of diet and physical activity behaviors.
• Improving Pregnancy Outcomes & Use of Doulas and Midwives
  
• Indigenous Rights impacted by Climate Change & Extractive Industries
  
• Infant Nutrition: WIC, Breastfeeding and Beyond
  
• Innovative research to examine AAPI health
  
  • New methods to elucidate health and health care utilization patterns among AAPIs (e.g., spatial data analysis, etc.)
  • Measuring, analyzing, and harmonizing API health data from multiple sources (e.g., survey data, clinical data, EHR, HIE, etc)
  • Meta-analysis of AAPI health literature
  • Innovative statistical and health services research methods
• Innovative strategies and policies to promote health in refugees and immigrant communities
  
• Intimate partner violence in vulnerable communities
  
• JOINT SESSION Community Health Workers in Public Health Education and Health Promotion
  
• Know thyself as a gatekeeper: Applying an anti-racism framework for equity in cancer care
  
• Latinx Health Equity: Community and Behavioral Interventions
  
• Latinx Health Equity: Epidemiological and Sociocultural Factors
  
• Latinx Health Equity: Policies, advocacy efforts, and interventions
  
• Legislative and law issues in injury and violence
  
• Life is for living: Women's health issues across the lifespan
  
• Maternal & Child Health - 2
  
• Mind the Gaps: Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Disparities
  including issues related to social determinants of health and mental health.
• My Sister's Keeper: Reproductive Justice
  
• OHS Invited Session - Resistance, Research and Action for Work and Health
  
• OHS Podium Session - Education, Training, and Lessons from Past and Present
  
• OHS Podium Session - Fractionalized Workforce & Health Disparities
  
• OHS Podium Session - Healthcare workers and the intersection of patient and worker safety
  
• OHS Podium Session - Violence in the Workplace
  
• Obstetrics/Gynecology and Family Medicine
  
• Our persuasion can build a nation: Preconception, prenatal, and postpartum health issues
  
• Participatory Approaches to Address Social Disparities and Determinants of Health
  
• Paving the Road to Health Equity: A Framework for Action
  
• Police Violence: A structural determinant of health
  
• Policies, Programs and Services that Promote Inclusion of People with Disabilities
  
• Promoting CHWs as change agents in reducing health disparities or impacting social determinants of health
  
• Promoting Healthy Minds and Bodies through Traditional, Integrative, and Complementary Health Practices
  
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Aging
  
• Recent Developments in International Trade and its Impact on Health
  
• Reducing Health Disparities Through Community-Based Physical Activity Interventions (organized jointly with the Physical Activity section)
  
• Reproductive Health & Family Planning
  
• Research to Inform Programming for Diverse Identities within American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
  
• Research, Education, and Practice of Integrative, Complementary, and Traditional Health Practices
  
• Right to Health Advocacy in the United States
  
• Role of public health in relation to modern war and conflict
  
• Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: Contaminants, Toxins, and Outbreaks
  Including, but not limited to: Local, regional, national and/or global systems; Agriculture and sustainable food production; Land use and planning to support local and regional food systems; Climate change; Food security and food sovereignty; Safe food handling practices; Consumer food safety; Food safety policies; foodborne illness.
• Science to Support Decision-Making and Policies
  
• Seeking justice for all: Factors influencing health equity and reproductive justice among Latina and Black women and girls
  
• Self-Sourced Abortion
  
• Sex Trafficking and Reproductive Justice
  
• Sexual Minority Women’s Public Health (Including Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and/or WSW/WSWM)
  A forum devoted to the health of sexual minority women including health disparities, clinical practices, chronic diseases, access to care, and behavioral risk factors.
• Social Contexts and/or Social Determinants of LGBT Public Health
  A forum to explore the impact of socio-ecological, environmental, and behavioral factors on LGBT health.
• Social Contexts, Social Determinants and Political Climate in LGBT Public Health
  A forum which focuses on the direct impact and future implications of the recent elections in the US on LGBT community health from an access, quality of care and/or health policy perspective.
• Social Determinants in Health and Disease
  
• Social Determinants of Health
  
• Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities: Where Does Law Come In?
  Legal interventions such as restricting use or access to alcohol, tobacco or other drugs has been successful in curbing illegal use among minors and minimizing substance-related injuries. The Health Law section is interested in receiving abstracts on marijuana, opioids, tobacco, e-cigarettes, and alcohol.
• Social Justice, Cancer and African American Men: Examining Exclusion and Implicit Bias
  
• Social determinants of health and health inequities
  
• Social justice, disparities, and human rights
  
• Socialist Caucus Roundtable : Police Violence-a structural determinant of heath
  
• Sociocultural and Environmental Determinants of Latinx Health
  
• Something is wrong: The impact of the social determinants on men’s health
  
• The Influence of Trade and Trade Policy on Health
  
• The Right to Health of Refugees and Migrants
  
• The Role of Health Communication in the Continuum of HIV/AIDS Care, Treatment, and Prevention Among Diverse Audiences (organized by HCWG)
  
• The impacts of war and conflict on veteran's health
  
• Thinking about tomorrow: Cancer prevention and control among women
  
• This is What the Public Health Resistance Looks Like
  
• Trans/Gender-Variant People's Public Health
  A forum devoted to the health of trans/gender-variant individuals including health disparities, clinical practices, chronic diseases, body modification consequences, access to care, and behavioral risk factors.
• Turning the Tables: How the Attempts to Repeal the ACA are Strengthening the Medicare for All Movement
  
• Using a holistic approach to assess and evaluate programs for people experiencing homelessness
  
• Utilizing Community-based Public Health Methods, Tools, and Research within American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Populations Poster Session
  
• Violence Prevention
  
• Waiting for the right time: Multi-level approaches to improving effective contraceptive use among women
  
• We run the world: Factors impacting the health of women in the workforce
  
• What We Can Learn from the Fight for Public Health in Latin America?
  
• What are kids eating these days? And why? A closer look at child and adolescent nutrition
  Including, but not limited to: Research translation for program development; Qualitative and quantitative measurement strategies; Community assessment; Evidence-based practice; use of program planning/evaluation frameworks (examples: RE-AIM, precede/proceed); use of culturally appropriate methodologies when working with ethnic groups or minority/disadvantaged populations.
• Wisdom of the Elders
  
• Women and Children's Health
  
• Women as the Backbone of Climate Change
  
• Women's Health
  
• Working with Communitities to Identify and Protect Marginalized Populations
  
• Working with Latinx Communities on Health Equity Research
  
• You can't hold us down: Empowering women faced with racism and discrimination
  
• You don't know what love is: Stalking and violence against women
  
• Youth roundtable: Youth leading the way to healthier communities
  
• Other priority AAPI concerns
  
  • Aging and AAPIs
  • Disparities among disaggregated AAPI subgroups
  • Programs/initiatives on sustainability (e.g., food systems, etc.)  in AAPI communities
  • Representation and Diversity in America’s health workforce (e.g., health care, health research, health equity)

The Caucus welcomes submissions from progressive voices who wish to share their vision at the 2017 conference, and especially encourages students and young professionals to submit proposals. When submitting a session proposal (not just a single abstract), please individually submit all abstracts to be included in that session through the web submission process and inform the program planner via e-mail that you have organized a complete session (see address below). The e-mail should include the name, address, phone number and e-mail address of the session organizer, the title of the session, a list of the individual abstracts to be included in the session, their presenters, and the web ID of each individual abstract. For more information, please e-mail Martha Livingston.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Martha Livingston, PhD
Professor and Chair, Public Health
SUNY College at Old Westbury
Box 210
Old Westbury, NY 11568
Phone: (516) 876-2748
Fax: (516) 876-2704
livingston.martha@gmail.com

and
Johnathon Samuel Ross, MD MPH
University of Toledo College of Medicine, Dept. of Internal Medicine
St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center
3468 Brookside Road
Toledo, OH 43606
Phone: 419 536 3879
Fax: 419 251 2393
drjohnross@ameritech.net