4077.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

Critical Classrooms, Global Perspectives: Progressive Curricula for Teaching About Determinants of Global Health

This session will focus on programs, courses and strategies that integrate critical, progressive perspectives into public health curricula.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Participants will review courses that integrate progressive perspectives. Participants will recognize opportunities for including critical perspectives into traditional public health curricula.
Presider(s):Cheryl Merzel, DrPH
Babette Neuberger
Organizer(s):Cheryl Merzel, DrPH
Marion Fass
Babette Neuberger
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:40 AMInfusing social justice throughout the curriculum: The University of New Mexico MPH Program Experience
Nina B. Wallerstein, DrPH, Bonnie Duran, DrPH, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, PhD, MPH, Cynthia Lopez, DrPH, Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Jo Fairbanks, PhD, Marianna Kennedy, MA, MPH, MPA
8:52 AMChanges in Health and Health Care in Post-apartheid South Africa
Sally J Guttmacher, PhD
9:04 AMFostering Critical Perspectives in Health: A Community Organizing Course for Public Health Students
Jesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD, MPH
9:16 AMBuilding and Retaining Public Health Capacity in Developing Countries: Challenges & Opportunities
Yogan Pillay, Claire Botha
9:28 AMEngaging activists: Teaching global perspectives on health and social inequalities at the undergraduate level
Marion Field Fass, Sc D
9:40 AMDiscussion
Sponsor:Spirit of 1848 Caucus
Cosponsors:Academic Public Health Caucus; Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA; Black Caucus of Health Workers; Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; Environment; HIV/AIDS; Health Equity and Public Hospitals Caucus; International Health; Labor Caucus; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus of Public Health Workers; Maternal and Child Health; Occupational Health and Safety; Peace Caucus; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Public Health Student Caucus; Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Vision Care Section; Women's Caucus; Association of Schools of Public Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA