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
CardioStart Ghana Medical Mission – Boshkov 2009
Slide show on the Cardiostart cardiac surgery medical mission to Ghana by Dr. Lynn Boshkov
*Confronting Social Injustice Through Activism in Public Health
Slide show covering major issues in social justice and public health, with call to action
*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
Do Something – Activism 101 for Medical Students and Physicians
Primer on activism for medical students and physicians
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
Social Determinants of Health – Lauri Andress
Framing a public discussion on the social determinants of health – Lauri Andress
Literature and Activism
Slide show on literature and activism
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
*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
*Health professionals, environmental degradation, and social injustice: education and activism – Monash Bioethics Rev
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
Internists and bioterror prevention – JGIM lte 2007.doc
Letter re prevention of bioterrorism, prevention of war, promotion of peace, and medical education
*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
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 Justice readings suggested by Nicole Gravina 11-09
A few selections and websites from Dr Nicole Gravina, Psychology, Roosevelt University
World Health and International Economic Sharing – Dr Mohammed Mesbahi, 2009
Article from Share the World Resources and DissidentVoice
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
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:
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/
Canadian Public Health Association: http://www.cpha.ca/en/default.aspx
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/
Georgetown Department of Family Medicine Service-Learning Program: http://familymedicine.georgetown.edu/44511.html
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, Blogs: 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
World health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/
Yale School of Medicine Global Health: http://medicine.yale.edu/globalhealth/index.html
Human Rights:
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/
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/
Global Lawyers and Physicians for Human Rights: http://www.glphr.org/
Global Witness: http://www.globalwitness.org/
Human Rights Campaign: http://www.hrc.org/
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/
No Dirty Gold: http://www.nodirtygold.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://www.mit.edu/phrj/
Media:
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/
Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/
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
Project Censored: http://www.projectcensored.org/
Politics:
Green Party of the US: http://www.gp.org
Western Progress: http://www.westernprogress.org
Social Justice:
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
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/
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
Essays on Nutrition, Health Care, Human Rights, and Development by Claudio Schuftan: http://www.humaninfo.org/aviva/
Freedom of Information Act Advocates: http://www.foiadvocates.com/
Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/
Global Voices Online: http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Government Accountability Project: http://www.whistleblower.org/template/index.cfm
Heifer Project, International: http://www.heifer.org/
Institute for Social Ecology: http://www.social-ecology.org/
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
Public Citizen: http://www.citizen.org/index.cfm
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group: http://www.citizen.org/hrg/
Share the World’s Resources: http://www.stwr.org/
Social Medicine Portal: http://www.socialmedicine.org/
Teachers for Social Justice: http://www.teachersforjustice.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/