OCTOBER 15, 2020: FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
(NOTE: THIS SESSION IS FULL)
Building on a decade of experience teaching & practicing social medicine, EqualHealth leaders will facilitate this session for attendees who wish to build critical consciousness, hone teaching & learning skills, and create tools to share in social medicine courses & other contexts. Faculty Development is limited to former Social Medicine Consortium or EqualHealth alumni or facilitators; only 40 spots have been reserved for participants.
OCTOBER 16, 2020: HAITI
Participants will reflect on the power and pain of anniversaries, center on Haiti and contextual causes of inequity, and explore how to be agents of change. This day is our Tenth Annual Haiti Conference and we will recognize the tenth anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti; commemorate EqualHealth’s decade of collaboration and learning in Haiti; and recognize five years of Social Medicine Consortium courses and conferences.
OCTOBER 17, 2020: THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST RACISM
This session will be facilitated by leaders in our global program, the Campaign Against Racism (CAR). Participants will imagine a transnational, community-based radical future without structural racism and racial capitalism. Based on lessons drawn from the last two years of organizing, across 24 CAR chapters in 11 countries, we will collectively explore intersectionality, how to build community, and strengthen the movement. Finally, we will engage the Theatre of the Oppressed to name and deconstruct existing internalized systems of oppression, initiating liberation from our own oppression before organizing with our chapters.
OCTOBER 18, 2020: PAN-AFRICANISM PANEL
On the final day of the conference, participants will explore how Pan-Africanism approaches dismantling legacies of colonialism, white supremacy, and racialized capitalism; reimagine global solidarity amongst Africans on the continent and in the diaspora; reflect on the intersections amongst Pan-Africanism, Afroqueer activism and decolonized feminism; and explore Indigenous knowledge systems which center global black communities in healing and justice. Panelists include: Myriam Chancy, Haitian-Canadian-American writer and Scripps College Professor specializing in African Diaspora Caribbean Women's Literature; Njeri Gateru, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; Lebohang Liepollo, activist, scholar, researcher, public intellectual, development practitioner; Menzi Maseko, founder of the Institute of Afrikology.
GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDICINE SUMMIT:
Building Community, Critical Consciousness
and a Movement for Health Equity
OCTOBER 15-18, 2020
10-2 pm ET | 5-9 pm EAT
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
- Build power & deepen relationships across borders in a turbulent moment of pandemic, authoritarianism, racial capitalism & uprising.
- Inspire transnational solidarity, healing & radical imagination.
- Reflect on the power & pain of anniversaries.
- Center anti-blackness & racism against indigenous people as root causes of oppression, and dismantling them as antidotes to health inequities.
EqualHealth is accepting submissions to a Global Social Medicine Summit virtual poster session.
(NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS PASSED)
Abstracts must highlight at least one of the summit objectives:
- Describe efforts to create Innovative social medicine programs, projects.
- Describe efforts to share people’s narratives/lived experiences/stories.
- Describe efforts in community organizing, research, or curricula being developed or experienced or implemented anywhere globally.
Specifications:
- Maximum of 300 words.
- May be submitted in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, English, or Portuguese.
- Posters/narratives may be presented in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, English, or Portuguese.
- Authors may choose to present their work in the form of traditional scientific posters, short video talks, personal narratives of artistic pieces. Presentations will be limited to five minutes.
Circulation:
Accepted abstracts will be shared on the summit website before, during, and after the conference. Selected abstracts will be highlighted on the final day of the summit, October 18, 2020.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
ABSTRACT DETAILS
Who should submit:
EqualHealth strongly encourages submissions from health professionals who are not physicians and those non-health workers but whose work centers around the social determinants of health.
Format for completed projects:
- Statement of the Problem
- Program Design
- Program Implementation
- Results/Outcomes and Evaluation
- Conclusions and/or Recommendation
Format for Projects still in development:
- Statement of Problem
- Description of the concept/intervention
- Description of team members, target group, and existing models (if any)
- Project design including plans for data collection, analysis and evaluation
- Initial impressions, challenges encountered, and next steps
Sample Areas of Abstract focus:
- Community organizing wins (particularly during Covid-19), building solidarity during Covid-19, transnational actions in the context of migration and deportation;
- Climate justice organizing; healing justice initiatives; indigenous science;
- Organizing around declaring racism as a public health crisis; abolition;
- Critical consciousness and political education models; community platform models, examples of organizing centering Back Indigenous People Of Color (BIPOC) communities, naming disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on BIPOC.
Internet sponsorship:
EqualHealth will offer a limited number of internet connection sponsorships for authors of accepted abstracts. Strong preference will be given to applicants from the global south.