CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — APHA 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo
Socialist Caucus
Meeting theme: "Making the Public’s Health a National Priority"
Submission Deadline: Friday, March 28, 2025
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 that adopt critical left perspectives on the impact of global capitalism on public health and the struggle for health and justice in the United States and around the world.
Please note: if you are interested in presenting work from a socialist perspective and don’t see your topic below, please feel free to submit it nonetheless.
We propose that abstracts be submitted to the following sessions; proposals for complete sessions will also be considered.
a. The role of global capitalism in shaping health and health care.
b. Organizing for economic, social, political and racial justice from the community to the global level.
c. The movement for national health care in the United States.
d. The health of marginalized populations including the disability, immigrant, refugee, incarceration erased, and unhoused communities and others.
e. Women's health justice, the health of LGBTQIA+ communities
f. Food system justice.
The Caucus 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 the session through the web submission process and inform the program planners via e-mail that you have organized a complete session (see addresses 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 with presenters’ names and the APHA web ID of each individual abstract. For more information, please contact one of the program planners below.
