SPIRIT OF 1848: A CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – APHA 2024 (Oct 27-30, Minneapolis, MN)
SPIRIT OF 1848 THEME:
BELIEVE IT OR NOT: CRITICAL TRUST BUILDING, TRUST BUSTING & CREATING
TRUSTWORTHY PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
The official theme for APHA 2024 is: “Rebuilding Trust in Public Health and Science.” We in the Spirit of 1848 take the next step and call for: Believe it or not: critical trust building, trust busting & creating trustworthy public health science and practice – a task core to the mission of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus, for which we will be honoring our 30th anniversary, since we launched the Spirit of 1848 in 1994! We also recognize the meeting will be taking place in Minneapolis, MN, where George Floyd was horrifically murdered by the police on May 25, 2020, and also 1 week before the US presidential & other elections (Nov 5, 2024).
Motivating our theme is deep recognition that:
(a) trustworthiness is earned - it is not a given;
(b) public health and science more broadly are not monoliths: within these fields are those who have inspired us with their tireless work to advance critical ideas, research and practices integral to advancing health justice, while others have done the converse (as exemplified by past & present realities of scientific racism, eugenics, and more);
(c) attacks on public health, science, and educational systems more broadly, while decades-old, are escalating, led by neo-liberal & right-wing groups variously committed to market fundamentalism, right-wing libertarianism, & naturalizing social inequality, who are opposed to public health and other government regulations that promote healthy, equitable, and sustainable societies, and whose disinformation campaigns, fueled by the scale, speed and scope of the internet & social media, are seeking to destroy, via Big Lie tactics, any sense of a shared reality in which evidence & public health matter; and
(d) public health advocates and many others have displayed enormous resilience, creativity, and solidarity in not only countering these attacks but also bolstering critical analysis and action for building earned trust with communities and fostering inspiring, equitable, sustainable, joyful, and dignified futures for all.
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Spirit of 1848 sessions (APHA 2024) – by day, name, and LIKELY time, and whether an OPEN CALL for abstracts or INVITED ONLY |
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Monday, Oct 28, 2024 |
Activist session |
8:30 am to 10:00 am |
OPEN CALL + invited |
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Social history of public health |
10:30 am to 12 noon |
INVITED ONLY |
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Politics of public health data |
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm |
OPEN CALL + invited |
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Tuesday, Oct 29, 2024 |
Integrative session |
10:30 am to 12 noon |
INVITED ONLY |
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Student poster session |
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
OPEN CALL + invited |
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Progressive pedagogy |
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm |
OPEN CALL + invited |
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Labor/business meeting |
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm |
N/A |
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Below we provide: (1) the specific instructions for each session, and (2) the APHA instructions about preparing abstracts, with regard to word limits, membership & registration requirements, and information required to enable the session in which a presentation is included to qualify for continuing education credits.
Instructions for what we are seeking for each session (listed in chronological order) are as follows:
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1. Activist Session (Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 8:30 am to 10 am) – Open call and invited speakers TITLE: Organizing to counter attacks on public health and earn community trust in science CALL: Attacks on public health, science, and educational systems are escalating. Despite this, public health activists are not only countering these attacks, but also fostering equitable, sustainable, joyful, and dignified futures for all through solidaristic and trust building organizing. The Activist Session will include presentations that describe activism around the overall Spirit of 1848 theme of “Believe it or not: critical trust building, trust busting & creating trustworthy public health science and practice” through an open call and invited abstracts. Possible examples include grassroots approaches for building community trust in science; organizing to counter racism in policing; attacks (& counterattacks) on public health activists themselves; and ways to combat the silencing that is happening in social justice-oriented higher education, among others. |
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2. Social History of Public Health (Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 10:30 am -12 noon) – invited speakers TITLE: Trust Building and Trust Busting in Public Health: Critical Historical Perspectives CALL: The Social History of Public Health Committee of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus will INVITE abstracts from speakers who can present historical and ongoing examples of how public health institutions and actors in multiple contexts have worked with communities to co-construct trust in public health science for the people’s health. We are particularly interested in examples of public health engagement with social movements and other forms of resistance to the ways in which fascism, free market fundamentalism, and right-wing and populist misinformation machines have sought to distort science and public health institutions for self-serving and destructive political and economic goals. Invited presenters will provide local and global case studies of struggles to counter these assaults in solidarity with communities’ and the peoples’ health. |
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3. Politics of Public Health Data (Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 2:30 – 4:00 pm) – open call and invited speakers TITLE: Critical science vs. science denialism: building trustworthy public data for health justice CALL: This session and its speakers (via both an open call & invited) will focus on conceptual and empirical investigations into the historical and contemporary struggles to develop trustworthy public health data for health justice, calling for critical science while challenging science denialism. Presentations could include a focus on the relationship between public health data and: (1) historical and contemporary resistance to fascism, (2) resistance to eugenics and racism, (3) science denialism (e.g., climate change, vaccine), the current complex alchemies brewing under the banner of "don't trust authorities," from ultra-left to fascist, mixed with counterculture/wellness and libertarian/anti-regulation zealots and (4) data sources, gaps, and ownership, including contrasting publicly collected data, community-sourced data, and private data. |
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4. Integrative Session (Tues, Oct 29, 2024, 10:30 am – 12 noon) – invited speakers TITLE: Science, causal inference & the people’s health: implications for trustworthy public health research, practice, and activism for health justice CALL: This session and its invited speakers will focus on critical science, causal inference & the people’s health. Topics to be considered will include: who and what can make science either trustworthy or not trustworthy, under what conditions, and in relation to what approaches to investigating and inferring causation; what the relationships are between scientific integrity and the production of both scientific knowledge and ignorance, including in relation to scientific racism; and who benefits from and who is harmed by attacks on public health science and regulations and policies based on trustworthy science. The format will be a featured speaker, followed by 3 discussants reflecting on these issues in relation to the 3 foci of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus – the social history of public health, the politics of public health data, and progressive pedagogy – and implications for public health research, teaching, practice, and activism for the people’s health & health justice. |
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5. Student Poster: Social Justice & Public Health (Tues, Oct 29, 2024, 12:30 – 1:30 pm) – OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Spirit of 1848 Social Justice & Public Health Student Poster Session Call for Abstracts For the APHA Annual Meeting 2024, the Spirit of 1848 Social Justice & Public Health Student Poster Session is issuing an OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for posters that highlight the intersections between social justice and public health from a historical, theoretical, epidemiological, ethnographic, and/or methodological perspective. This session will have an OPEN CALL for submissions by students (undergraduate or graduate) who are focused on work linking issues of social justice and public health. This can include, but is not limited to, work concerned with the Spirit of 1848’s focus for APHA 2024 on “Believe it or not: critical trust building, trust busting & creating trustworthy public health science and practice.” Per our Spirit of 1848 policy, we encourage submissions that bring a critical Indigenous lens, drawing on Indigenous theories, knowledge, and methods, to the specific topic that is the focus of this session, i.e., student posters on links between social justice & public health. The submitted work can address one or more of many interlocking types of justice (e.g., racial, Indigenous, political and/or economic, gender and/or sexuality-related, environmental, restorative, etc.) We are interested in submissions not only from students in schools of public health and other health professions (e.g., nursing, medicine) but also from students in schools & programs focused on law, political science, public policy, social work, government, economics, sociology, urban planning, etc. For examples of abstracts selected in prior years, see our annual reportbacks. Instructions for abstract submission can be found on the APHA abstract submission website at: https://apha.confex.com/apha/2024/cfp.cgi Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria: (1) Relevant to the Sprit of 1848’s broader mission and theme (Spirit of 1848’s theme for APHA 2024 is “Believe it or not: critical trust building, trust busting & creating trustworthy public health science and practice.”); (2) The rigor of the research methods and theoretical foundation; (3) Originality; and (4) Scholarly or practical importance NOTE: to address the on-going problem of student uncertainty about funding, which has led to students with accepted posters withdrawing their submissions, we will continue with the successful approach we implemented in 2016, whereby we will: (1) accept the top 10 abstracts (the limit for any poster session); (2) set up a waitlist of all runner-up potentially acceptable posters (ranked in order of preference); and (3) reject abstracts that either are not focused on issues of social justice and public health or are not of acceptable quality. If any accepted poster is withdrawn, we will replace it with a poster from the waitlist (in rank order). For any questions about this session, please contact Spirit of 1848 Student Poster Coordinating Committee member Charlene Kuo. |
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6. Pedagogy Session (Tues, Oct 29, 2024, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) – OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TITLE: Teaching to counter miseducation and build critical pedagogy CALL: We seek abstracts for presentations exploring trustworthiness and trust as it relates to public health pedagogy. The focus of the presentation may include processes in teaching to counter miseducation and build critical education, strategies to build community trust in research and science, radical initiatives within and outside educational institutions, progressive efforts to strengthen trust within the public health workforce, and issues of academic freedom & free speech. We invite presentations focusing on how pedagogy can be carried out by community activists, public health practitioners, and academic instructors (K-post graduate). |
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NOTE: APHA repeats below the "calls" for the sessions with open calls for abstracts (& does not list the 2 sessions that are invited only) |
APHA ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS & CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:
NOTE: it is important that our Spirit of 1848 sessions be approved for CE credits, so that public health & clinical professionals can get CE credits in sessions focused on the links between social justice & public health! – so please be sure to read these instructions carefully!!!
1) APHA ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS
2) CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses, health educators, veterinarians, and those certified in public health at its annual meeting. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so members can claim credit for attending your session. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and credentials.
For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each presenter must provide:
o Examples of Acceptable Measurable Action Words: Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List.
-- Examples of Acceptable Biographical Qualification Statement:
“I have been the principal or co-principal of multiple federally funded grants focusing on the epidemiology of drug abuse, HIV prevention and co-occurring mental and drug use disorders. Among my scientific interests has been the development of strategies for preventing HIV and STDs in out-of-treatment drug users.”
“I am qualified because I have conducted research in the area of maternal and child health for the past 20 years and have given multiple presentations on this subject.”
Please note that I am the principal investigator of this study is NOT an acceptable qualification statement. Nor it is acceptable to state: “I am qualified because I am a professor at XYZ University.”
Contact Mighty Fine at mighty.fine@apha.org if you have any questions concerning continuing education credit. Please contact the program planner for all other questions.
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF 1848
& HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER AND SUBSCRIBE TO OUR LISTSERVE:
For additional information about the Spirit of 1848, including our mission statement and why our name is “Spirit of 1848,” please see below--and also please visit our website, where you can learn more about our Caucus and see past sessions that we have organized at APHA: http://www.spiritof1848.org/
And, if you are a dues-paying APHA member:
https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86XQ5KQvFCgCpFP
(& for more explanation about why we need this information, see: http://spiritof1848.org/listserv.htm)
1) login in at: http://apha.org/
2) click on the bottom part of where your name shows up, which will reveal the “menu” for options
3) click on “update profile”
4) click on the tab for “communities”
5) scroll down to “caucuses,” go to “Spirit of 1848,” and choose the option for “current participant”!
(note: selecting a Caucus affiliation does NOT count against the choice of 2 Section affiliations)
Lastly, if you are interested in subscribing to our email bulletin board, we welcome posting on social justice & public health that provide:
If your posting is only about social justice/political issues, or only about public health issues, and does not explicitly connect issues of social justice & public health, please do not post it on this listserv.
Please note that the listserv does not accept attachments. For petitions, please post only the text, accompanied by the explicit instruction not to reply to the listserv but to reply to you directly with signatures.
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To subscribe or unsubscribe send an e-mail to the address specified above with the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject line. For more information, please see the Spiritof1848 Listserv Semi-Regular Reminder or e-mail the list owner.
SPIRIT OF 1848 MISSION STATEMENT
November 2002
The Spirit of 1848: A Network linking Politics, Passion, and Public Health
Purpose and Structure
The Spirit of 1848 is a network of people concerned about social inequalities in health. Our purpose is to spur new connections among the many of us involved in different areas of public health, who are working on diverse public health issues (whether as researchers, practitioners, teachers, activists, or all of the above), and live scattered across diverse regions of the United States and other countries. In doing so, we hope to help counter the fragmentation that many of us face: within and between disciplines, within and between work on particular diseases or health problems, and within and between different organizations geared to specific issues or social groups. By making connections, we can overcome some of the isolation that we feel and find others with whom we can develop our thoughts, strategize, and enhance efforts to eliminate social inequalities in health.
Our common focus is that we are all working, in one way or another, to understand and change how social divisions based on social class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and age affect the public's health. As an activist and scholarly network, we have established four committees to conduct our work:
1) Public Health Data: this committee will focus on how and why we measure and study social inequalities in health, and develop projects to influence the collection of data in US vital statistics, health surveys, and disease registries.
2) Curriculum: this committee will focus on how public health and other health professionals and students are trained, and will gather and share information about (and possibly develop) courses and materials to spur critical thinking about social inequalities in health, in their present and historical context.
3) E-Networking: this committee will focus on networking and communication within the Spirit of 1848, using e-mail, web page, newsletters, and occasional mailings; it also coordinates the newly established student poster session.
4) History: this committee is in liaison with the Sigerist Circle, an already established organization of public health and medical historians who use critical theory (Marxian, feminist, post-colonial, and otherwise) to illuminate the history of public health and how we have arrived where we are today; its presence in the Spirit of 1848 will help to ensure that our network's projects are grounded in this sense of history, complexity, and context.
Work among these committees will be coordinated by our Coordinating Committee, which consists of the chair/co-chairs and the chairs/co-chairs of each of the four sub-committees. To ensure accountability, all public activities sponsored by the Spirit of 1848 (e.g., public statements, mailings, sessions at conferences, other public actions) will be organized by these committees and approved by the Coordinating Committee (which will communicate on at least a monthly basis). Annual meetings of the network (so that we can actually see each other and talk together) will take place at the yearly American Public Health Association meetings. Finally, please note that we are NOT a dues-paying membership organization. Instead, we are an activist, volunteer network: you become part of the Spirit of 1848 by working on one of our projects, through one of our committees--and we invite you to join in!
NB: for additional information about the Spirit of 1848 and our choice of name, see:
--Coordinating Committee of Spirit of 1848 (Krieger N, Zapata C, Murrain M, Barnett E, Parsons PE, Birn AE). Spirit of 1848: a network linking politics, passion, and public health. Critical Public Health 1998; 8:97-103.
--Krieger N, Birn AE. A vision of social justice as the foundation of public health: commemorating 150 years of the spirit of 1848. Am J Public Health 1998; 88:1603-6.
Community email addresses:
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First issued: Fall 1994; revised: November 2001; November 2001; November 2002
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WHY "SPIRIT OF 1848"?
Selected notable events in and around 1848
1840-1847:
Louis René Villermé publishes the first major study of workers' health in France, A Description of the Physical and Moral State of Workers Employed in Cotton, Wool, and Silk Mills (1840) and Flora Tristan, based in France, publishes her London Journal: A Survey of London Life in the 1830s (1840), a pathbreaking account of the extreme poverty and poor health of its working classes, including sex workers*; in England, Edwin Chadwick publishes General Report on Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population in Great Britain (1842); first child labor laws in the Britain and the United States (1842); end of the Second Seminole War (1842); prison reform movement in the United States initiated by Dorothea Dix (1843); Friedrich Engels publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845); John Griscom publishes The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York with Suggestions for Its Improvement (1845); Irish famine (1845-1848) despite high agricultural output and protests against British agricultural and trade policies; start of US-Mexican war (in Mexico, known as “La invasión de Estados Unidos a México,” i.e., “The United States Invasion of Mexico”) (1846); Frederick Douglass founds The North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper in the United States (1847); Southwood Smith publishes An Address to the Working Classes of the United Kingdom on their Duty in the Present State of the Sanitary Question (1847)
1848:
World-wide cholera epidemic
Uprisings in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Sicily, Milan, Naples, Parma, Rome, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, and Dakar; start of Second Sikh war against British in India
In the midst of the 1848 revolution in Germany, Rudolf Virchow founds the medical journal Medical Reform (Medizinische Reform), and writes his classic "Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia," in which he concludes that preserving health and preventing disease requires "full and unlimited democracy" and radical measures rather than "mere palliatives"
Revolution in France, abdication of Louis Philippe, worker uprising in Paris, and founding of The Second Republic, which creates a public health advisory committee attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and establishes network of local public health councils
First Public Health Act in Britain, which creates a General Board of Health, empowered to establish local boards of health to deal with the water supply, sewerage, and control of "offensive trades," and also to conduct surveys of sanitary conditions
The newly formed American Medical Association sets up a Public Hygiene Committee to address public health issues
First Women's Rights Convention in the United States, at Seneca Falls, New York
Henry Thoreau publishes Civil Disobedience, to protest paying taxes to support the United States’ war against Mexico
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
77 enslaved persons in the District of Columbia attempt to escape to freedom aboard The Pearl schooner. While the attempt is unsuccessful and many participants are sold to Southern plantations, the Pearl Incident provokes renewed activism for abolition of slavery in the U.S. Frederick Douglass highlights the hypocrisy of enslavers in Washington who stopped the Pearl while “feasting and rejoicing over” the 1848 democratic revolution in France.*
The Seneca Nation of Indians is founded as a modern democracy with a constitution and elected representative government, building on a democratic self-governing tradition begun in 1200 C.E. by the Hodinöhsö:ni’or Six Nations Confederacy.*
First Chinese immigrants arrive in California: Chinese immigrants comprise 90% of workers who build the Central Pacific Railroad and complete the transcontinental rail system. Paid 30% less than white workers, suffering high injury rates from this hazardous work, and excluded from citizenship, they persist and form the foundation of vibrant Chinese American communities (with parallel migration and exploitative labor experiences across the Americas).*
European and US-settler prospectors, mostly White, flock to California during the 1849 Gold Rush, bringing disease, ecological destruction, and waves of genocidal violence against Indigenous communities. These events, followed by wars against Indigenous peoples throughout the West and Southwest U.S. (1849-1892), seed Indigenous resistance movements that continue into the 21st century.*
Elizabeth Blackwell (1st woman to get a medical degree in the United States, in 1849*) sets up the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children (1849); John Snow publishes On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1849); Lemuel Shattuck publishes Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts (1850); founding of the London Epidemiological Society (1850); Compromise of 1850 retains slavery in the United States and Fugitive Slave Act passed; Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman" speech at the Fourth Seneca Fall convention (1853); John Snow removes the handle of the Broad Street Pump to stop the cholera epidemic in London (1854); James McCune Smith (1st African American to get a medical degree, awarded in 1837 by University of Glasgow) co-founds the interracial Radical Abolitionist Party (1855)*
* denotes entries added since the original list created in 1994 (version: 6/21/22)
Nancy Krieger, PhD
nkrieger@hsph.harvard.edu