Activism and Education
Articles, slide shows, syllabi, and curricular suggestions re activism and health professions education.
Slide Shows:
Activism – History, Literature, and Contemporary Movements
Slide show on Activism in Medicine and Public Health, covering Literature, Hisory, and Contemporary Movements
Activism and Public Health – Humanities and Social Sciences
Slide show on social justice and activism in public health
Anti-corporate health campaigns: Seeds of a movement? – N Freudenberg
Brief slide show on strategies of successful anti-corporate health campaigns and policy agenda for a movement, by Dr. Nick Freudenberg
CardioStart Ghana Medical Mission – Boshkov 2009
Slide show on the Cardiostart cardiac surgery medical mission to Ghana by Dr. Lynn Boshkov
Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission – Public Health and Democracy, W Wiist
Implications of the 2010 Supreme Court decision for public health and democracy, by Dr. Bill Wiist (see also article below)
*Confronting Pseudoscience and Threats from a Corporate Front Group – The American Council on Science and Health
Exposé of the American Council on Science and Health – based on articles below
Confronting Social Injustice Through Activism in Public Health
Slide show covering major issues in social justice and public health, with call to action
Corporate Contributions to Health Organizations – Josh Freeman
Brief overview of corporate contributions to health organizations, including ethical issues, conflicts of interest, etc., from Dr Joshua Freeman
*Corporate Control of Public Health – Case Studies and Call to Action
Slide show covering the effects of corporations on various aspects of public health
Corporate Control of Public Health – Short Version
Abbreviated version of above slide show covering the effects of corporations on various aspects of public health
corporate control of public health – very short version
Even shorter version of above talk
*Do Something – Activism 101 for Medical Students and Physicians
Primer on activism for medical students and physicians
Do Something – Activism 101 for Medical Students and Physicians – short version
Version for Kaiser/OHSU resident talks
Doctors for Global Health – M Sanchez
Overview of Doctors for Global Health, an NGO which promotes health and human rights with those who have no voice, by Dr. Monica Sanchez
Doctors for the people – training physicians to work in underserved urban communities – Simon, Anderson, Joo
Overview of national programs, including structure, educational philosophy, recruitment/retention, and evaluation, by Sherenne Simon, Matt Anderson, and Pablo Joo
Excluding the poor from accessing the biomedical literature – Dr Yamey, PLOS
Slide show on democratizing scientific publishing through open access publications like PLOS by Dr Gavin Yamey
Financial crisis, social justice, and America’s future – Dr JB Gordon
Slide show on the late 2000s financial crisis, economic policy, and social justice from Dr JB Gordon
Global Praxis – Exploring the Ethics of Engagement Abroad – Dharamsi
Educational resource kit from the Ethics of International Engagement and Service Learning Project at University of British Columbia, by Dr Shafik Dharamsi et al.
Health Advocate Role ebooklet – Dharamsi et al
Preparing future physicians for socially responsive practice, by Dr. Shafik Dharamsi et al.
Inspiring Health Advocacy in Family Medicine – A Qualitative Study
Article from Education for Health by Mu, Shroff, and Dharamsi, 2011
Pseudoscience, Greenwash and Scientific Ignorance
Overview of pseudoscience, corporate greenwash, and the extent of scientific ignorance in the U.S., with suggestions for action
*Public Health, Environmental Health, and Activism
Slide show on the relationship between public health and environmental health and the role of activism
Social Determinants of Health – Lauri Andress
Framing a public discussion on the social determinants of health – Lauri Andress
Social Justice Overview – Rosenthal
Slide show providing overview of social medicine for undergraduate pre-health professions students – Dr Frank Rosenthal
Wealth Not Health – Maureen McCue
The relentless pursuit of economic growth as a principle challenge to global health, by Dr Maureen McCue
Articles:
acute rad syndrome – Ann Int Med ltr.doc
Letter re acute radiation syndrome and medical education
Bioethicist as Public Intellectual – Parsi and Geraghty
Article from AJOB by Drs Kayan Parsi and Karen Geraghty
Bioterrorism Curriculum Too Limited – Acad Med ltr.doc
Letter re medical education covering militarism, war, and peace
Breast cancer awareness week, cosmetics, solicitation, and pinkwashing
Comments for Spirit of 1848 listserv, October, 2011
Citizens United: A First Anniversary Update, by Dr Bill Wiist – see http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/news/136/62/Citizens-United-A-First-Anniversary-Update/d,Article
*Combating corporate control of public health – Z Magazine
Article examining corporate control of public health, education, the media, legislators, etc., including examples and solutions
*Community-Based – Med Humanities Med Ed.pdf
Article on the uses of literature in health professions education, focusing on curricular suggestions, interdisciplinary learning, and community involvement
Community Participation as Necessary for Social Justice – Steen
Essay by John Steen on democracy, health care reform, and empowering communities, 2010
Education in Medicine blog, by John Delzell, MD – see http://educationinmedicine.blogspot.com/
Global Health Watch (Alternative Global Health) Reports: see http://www.ghwatch.org/ghws
Article on the roles and responsibilities of health professionals in confronting the health consequences of environmental degradation and social injustice – focus on education, activism, literature, and history
Human Rights and Social Justice in the Vision of Public Health – Steen
Brief essay by John Steen from Washington State J of Publ Hlth Practice, 2008
Internists and bioterror prevention – JGIM lte 2007.doc
Letter re prevention of bioterrorism, prevention of war, promotion of peace, and medical education
It Does Take a Village – John Steen
Essay by John Steen on the role of public health in confronting social and economic inequality, from Newsletter of the Comm Hlth Planning and Polic Devt Section, APHA (Spring, 2011)
*Lit, Med, & Publ Hlth – MLA Chapter.doc
Book chapter on using literature to teach public health concepts
Literature and Social Injustice – Medscape.doc
Article on literature and social injustice
Physician as Health Advocate- Translating the Quest for Social Responsibility Into Medical Education and Practice
Article from Academic Medicine by Dharamsi, Ho, Spadafora, and Woollard (2011)
sgim & media – JGIM lte.doc
Letter encouraging greater media exposure for Society of General Internal Medicine
SGIM and the media
Call for more media exposure for general medicine from JGIM
Social Determinants of Health and Policy Development – Steen
Essay by John Steen covering social determinants of health, neoliberalism, and social epidemiology, 2010
Social Justice and Democracy – Steen
Brief article on how political, economic, research, and educational priorities affect social determinants of health, by John Steen, 2010
Social Justice readings suggested by Nicole Gravina 11-09
A few selections and websites from Dr Nicole Gravina, Psychology, Roosevelt University
*Stories and Society – IJCAIP
Using literature to teach medical students about public health and social justice
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Vision of Public Health in the 21st Century – Public Health Without Borders – Steen
Essay from Am Hlth Planning Assn, 2008 (updated 2011), by John Steen
World Health and International Economic Sharing – Dr Mohammed Mesbahi, 2009
Article from Share the World Resources and DissidentVoice
Videos, Radio:
*Corporate assault on human health and the environment – General Electric, the American Council on Science and Health, and corporate infiltration of public education. Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, July, 2011. Available at http://www.veoh.com/watch/v21170152kDqfHBPE (note: download Veoh web player, as per website, to watch full video).
Corporate corruption of public health. Brief interview with “The Mantle – A Forum for Progressive Critique,” covering , New York, NY, March, 2011. Available at http://mantlethought.org/content/left-forum-2011-interview-martin-donohoe.
*Corporations and Health, “Conversations with Dr Don” (cable television program, March, 2011). Available athttp://www.veoh.com/watch/v208492269jJ8APJN (note: download Veoh web player, as per website, to watch full video).
*Doctor-Patient Relationship and Pharmaceutical Industry (comments, 2010): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIGwFQb0LGo
*Does today’s U.S. government serve corporations or the people? (Topics include the appropriate role of government in societyand the U.S. health care system) Debate with Howard Ellberger, “Conversations with Dr Don” (cable television program, May, 2011). Available at http://www.veoh.com/watch/v21004742PCxDDT99 (note: download Veoh web player, as per website, to watch full video).
*Food Justice (show also includes discussion of activism and medical/public health education and training). Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, July, 2011. Available at http://www.veoh.com/watch/v24892987MqXa2ySr (note: download Veoh web player, as per website, to watch full video).
*Social justice in health care, part I. Interview with Roberta Hall. The Health and Health Care Forum, KBOO Radio, December, 2011. Available at http://kboo.fm/node/32832 andhttp://ia600802.us.archive.org/32/items/HealthHealthcareEconomicsAndPolitics–interviewsAndTalks_727/039a.martindonohoeHealthAndJustice.mp3
*Social justice in health care, part II. Interview with Roberta Hall. The Health and Health Care Forum, KBOO Radio, Available at http://kboo.fm/node/33529 and at http://www.spokenword.org/program/1829177.
Syllabi:
Film and Public Health Course
Course description and syllabus for Film and Public Health course
Humanities & Soc Sciences in Med 2001 syllabus.doc
Course syllabus for Humanities and Social Sciences in Medicine
Humanities Social Sciences Mission Stmt OHSU 2001.doc
Document laying out plans for incorporation of humanities into medical training
hums & soc sci summer stipend program ohsu.doc
Overview of Humanities and Social Sciences in Medicine Summer Research Stipend Program
integrating literature into med training.doc
Tips on integrating literature into medical training
lit, med, & publ hlth syllabus.doc
Literature, Medicine, and Public Health Syllabus
Literature and Activism Reading List.doc
Short reading list of activist-oriented books from late 1990s
Neil Arya’s website and course syllabi covering global health, environmental health, and war and peace: http://environment.uwaterloo.ca/ers/faculty/narya/index.html
Public Health and Social Justice Course Syllabus.doc
Syllabus for Public Health and Social Justice course, Portland State University
war and peace literature.doc
Brief list of readings relevant to war and peace
Women’s Hlth and Human Rights syllabus.doc
Syllabus for Women’s Health and Human Rights course, Portland State University
Special Partner Links:
Social Medicine Portal: http://www.socialmedicine.org/
Social Medicine Blog (Dr Matt Anderson and colleagues): http://www.google.com/reader/shared/bronxdoc
External Links:
Undergraduate Public Health Learning Outcomes ( from the Association of Schools of Public Health, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention): http://www.asph.org/userfiles/UGPHLearningOutcomes_ModelVersion1.0_FINAL.pdf
Health Care Organizations:
Alan Guttmacher Institute: http://www.guttmacher.org/
American Medical Women’s Association: http://www.amwa-doc.org/index.cfm?objectid=2C517F16-D567-0B25-5628F79C71238E80
American Medical Students Association: http://www.amsa.org/
American Nurses Association: http://nursingworld.org/
American Public Health Association: http://www.apha.org/
Basic Health Access (Bob Bowman): http://www.basichealthaccess.org/
Breast Cancer Action: http://bcaction.org/
Bridging the Health Gap: http://www.bridgingthehealthgap.com/
Canadian Public Health Association: http://www.cpha.ca/en/default.aspx
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/
Change.org Health Care Page: http://healthcare.change.org/
Change.org Social Entrepreneurship Page: http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/
Corporations and Health Watch: http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/
Georgetown Department of Family Medicine Service-Learning Program: http://familymedicine.georgetown.edu/44511.html
Global Health Watch (Alternative World Health Report): http://www.ghwatch.org/
International Society for Equity in Health: http://www.iseqh.org/index_en.htm
Kaiser Family Foundation: http://www.kff.org/
Masters in Public Health Programs (Search MPH degrees, schools, and programs; view blog postings): http://www.mastersinpublichealth.net/
National Association of County and City Health Officials: http://www.naccho.org/
National Physicians Alliance: http://www.npalliance.org/
Oregon Public Health Association: http://www.oregonpublichealth.org/
Physicians for a National Health Program: http://www.pnhp.org/
Public Health Association of Australia: http://www.phaa.net.au/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp
Social Medicine Portal: http://www.socialmedicine.org/
University of Hawaii John A Burns School of Medicine Public Health Sciences: http://www.jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/departments/intro.php?departmentid=24
University of Western Ontario Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry Global Health page: http://www.schulich.uwo.ca/globalhealth
World health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/
Yale School of Medicine Global Health: http://medicine.yale.edu/globalhealth/index.html
Human Rights:
AAAS Science and Human Rights Program: http://shr.aaas.org/dhr/
American Civil Liberties Union: http://www.aclu.org/
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/
Basic Rights Oregon: http://www.basicrights.org/
Center for Economic and Social Rights: http://cesr.org/
Change.org Human Rights Page: http://humanrights.change.org/
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/index.html
Corporations and Health Watch: http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/
Human Development and Capability Association: http://www.capabilityapproach.com/index.php
Essays on Nutrition, Health Care, Human Rights, and Development by Claudio Schuftan: http://www.humaninfo.org/aviva/
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network: http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html
Global Health Education Consortium: http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/
Global Health, University of Arizona: http://www.globalhealth.arizona.edu
Global Health Watch: http://www.ghwatch.org/
Global Lawyers and Physicians: http://www.glphr.org/
Global Witness: http://www.globalwitness.org/
Green Charter Schools: http://www.greencharterschools.org
Health and Human Rights Info: http://www.hhri.org/
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies: http://www.humiliationstudies.org/
Human Rights Campaign: http://www.hrc.org/
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/
HuriSearch Human Rights Search Engine: http://www.hurisearch.org/
International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations: http://www.ifhhro.org/
Health and Human Rights On-Line Training Manual (IFHHRO): http://www.ifhhro-training-manual.org/
International Society for Health and Human Rights: http://www.ishhr.com/
Lambda Legal: http://www.lambdalegal.org/
National Physician Alliance: http://www.npalliance.org/
Organs Watch, UC Berkeley: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/biotech/organswatch/
Physicians for Human Rights: http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/
Program on Human Rights and Justice, MIT: http://web.mit.edu/phrj/
Stop Torture in Health Care: http://www.stoptortureinhealthcare.org/
University of Chicago Human Rights Program: http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/
Media:
Adbusters: https://www.adbusters.org/
Association for Progressive Communications: http://www.apc.org/en/home
Center for Media and Democracy – PR Watch: http://www.prwatch.org/
Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/
Corporate Crime Reporter: http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/
Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/
Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/
Dissent Magazine: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/
Dollars and Sense Magazine: http://dollarsandsense.org/index.html
E Magazine: http://www.emagazine.com/index.php
Ecologist: http://www.theecologist.org/
Extra (the Magazine of FAIR): http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): http://www.fair.org/index.php
Free Documentaries: http://www.freedocumentaries.org/index.php
Free Specch TV: http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/genx.php?name=home
Greg Palast, Journalism and Film: http://www.gregpalast.com/
Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Harper’s Magazine: http://www.harpers.org/
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/
Including Samuel, a documentary by Dan Habib: http://www.includingsamuel.com/home.aspx
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown: http://www.jimhightower.com/
Mother Jones: http://motherjones.com/
Ms Magazine: http://www.msmagazine.com/
Multinational Monitor: http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/
Open Spaces: http://www.open-spaces.com/index.php
Orion Magazine: http://www.orionmagazine.org/
Project Censored: http://www.projectcensored.org/
Remapping Debate: http://www.remappingdebate.org/
Sierra Magazine: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/
Skeptical Inquirer: http://www.csicop.org/si/
Synthesis/Regeneration: http://www.greens.org/s-r/
The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/
The Progressive: http://www.progressive.org/
Utne Reader: http://www.utne.com/daily.aspx
Z Communications: http://www.zcommunications.org/
Politics:
Green Party of the US: http://www.gp.org
Western Progress: http://www.westernprogress.org
Social Justice:
Action SDH (Social Determinants of Health): http://www.actionsdh.org/
American Civil Liberties Union: http://www.aclu.org/
American Friends Service Committee: http://www.afsc.org/default.htm
Angels in Medicine: http://www.medangel.org/index.shtml
Bridging the Health Gap: http://www.bridgingthehealthgap.com/
Business-Managed Democracy: http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/index.html
Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood: http://www.commercialexploitation.com/
Center for Constitutional Rights: http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
Center for Popular Economics: http://www.populareconomics.org/
Change.org: http://www.change.org/
Children’s Defense Fund: http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage
Commercial Alert: http://www.commercialalert.org/
Commonweal: http://www.commonweal.org/
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/index.html
Community Knowledge Project: http://www.communityknowledgeproject.org/
Consumers Union: http://www.consumersunion.org/
Corporate Accountability, International: http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/index.cfm?group_id=1000
Corporate Crime Reporter: http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/index.html
Corporations and Health Watch: http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/index.php
Countercorp: http://www.countercorp.org/
Creighton University Medical Anthropology Program: http://www.creighton.edu/gradschool/graduateprograms/masterofartsma/medicalanthropologyprogram/index.php
Data Center: http://www.datacenter.org/
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County: http://www.duhc.org/
Doctors and Scientists for Sustainability and Social Justice: http://www.d3sj.org/index.html
Educators’ Network for Social Justice: http://www.ensj.org/Main/HomePage
Essays on Nutrition, Health Care, Human Rights, and Development by Claudio Schuftan: http://www.humaninfo.org/aviva/
Fair Society, Healthy Lives: http://www.marmotreview.org/
Freedom of Information Act Advocates: http://www.foiadvocates.com/
Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/
Global Health Watch: http://www.ghwatch.org/
Global Voices Online: http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Government Accountability Project: http://www.whistleblower.org/template/index.cfm
Health Equalities Alliance: http://www.healthequalitiesalliance.co.uk/?q=node
Health Leads: http://www.healthleadsusa.org/
Healthy Policies for a Healthier World: http://www.healthypolicies.com/
Heifer Project, International: http://www.heifer.org/
Human Development and Capability Association: http://www.capabilityapproach.com/index.php
Institute for Social Ecology: http://www.social-ecology.org/
International People’s Health University: http://www.iphu.org/en/
Liu Institute – Global Health Network (University of British Columbia: http://blogs.ubc.ca/globalhealth/
Medical Margins (Health Policy and Nursing) Blog, Josephine Ensign: http://josephineensign.wordpress.com/
National Priorities Project: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/
New America Foundation: http://www.newamerica.net/http://www.newamerica.net/
Online Social Justice: http://www.onlinesocialjustice.com/
Oregon Center for Public Policy: http://www.ocpp.org/
Partners in Health: http://pih.org/home.html
People’s Health Movement: http://www.phmovement.org/en
People’s Health Movement Students’ Coalition: https://sites.google.com/site/phmsc2011/home
People’s Health Movement USA: http://www.phmovement.org/en/usa
Preemption and Movement Building in Public Health: http://www.preemptionwatch.org/
Psychologists for Social Responsibility: http://www.psysr.org/
Public Citizen: http://www.citizen.org/index.cfm
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group: http://www.citizen.org/hrg/
Public Health Discovery Portal (NYU): http://www.nyu.edu/mph/discover/
Remapping Debate: http://www.remappingdebate.org/
Share the World’s Resources: http://www.stwr.org/
Social Medicine Portal: http://www.socialmedicine.org/
Story of Broke: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-broke/
Student Physicians for Social Responsibility: http://www.psr.org/chapters/student-chapters/
Supercourse – Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/
Teachers 4 Social Justice: http://www.t4sj.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=39669
Teachers for Social Justice: http://www.teachersforjustice.org/
Too Much – A Commentary on Excess and Inequality: http://toomuchonline.org/
UC Atlas of Global Inequality: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/
Unite for Sight Cultural Competency Online Course: http://www.uniteforsight.org/cultural-competency/
Unite for Sight Global Health Online Course: http://www.uniteforsight.org/global-health-course/
Unite for Sight Volunteer Ethics and Professionalism Online Course: http://www.uniteforsight.org/international-volunteering/
United for a Fair Economy: http://www.faireconomy.org/
Universal Living Wage: http://www.universallivingwage.org/
US PIRG: http://www.uspirg.org/